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What makes a website easy or difficult to use?

I think this question is a great example of the very generic 'nothing is hard if you know how to do it' type of answer. However since you haven't given any other information I am going to assume that you are a complete novice and this will be your first project.

The first thing you need to think of what if your website going to do? What type of functionality will you need? Customer accounts, log in/register, basket and checkout options etc. Again for this example I will assume that it is just going to be a basic static website to host some information.

The next logical step would be to make a rough design. Now, contrary to what people like you to believe you don’t need Photoshop. Yes its a great piece of software, and you can do an infinate amount of things with it, and you can get all of the colours of your project down etc. etc. But at the end of the day a rough design sketched on some paper will more than suffice at this stage. You mainly need to have a layout design - where everything is going on the page.

The next step is your code. Now this is split into either two or three steps depending on your needs, for now I will split it into two and add the third as an extra afterwards.

First is your HTML, this is your page structure and content. This is where you decide what you want to appear on the page. You can split your page into sections to help keep your page structured, these include the header, nav, main content and your footer. The header nav and footer should be consistent across your site. So when i’m developing I tend to do these sections first and get them perfected so that they need no further work and are responsive etc. and then save them as a template so that you only have to add your main page content (which will obviously be different on every page.)

Finally you need you style your website, which is where your CSS comes in. Now this will probably be the most difficult part of your development for this project ass your CSS can get pretty complex when your in experienced with it. But in contrast your CSS can be as basic as you want, changing the color of text for example. But for this project I would definitely look into the display properties if I was you. it can be an extremely powerful tool and used correctly you could have your site fully responsive fairly easily.

Once you've done that your done! You have a site, which you can now upload onto your hosting server and people can see it.

Now that third step I talked about, JavaScript. JavaScript is extremely powerful and can tun your static website into anything you could imagine, but has a much steeper learning curve that HTML and CSS do, so at this stage if your site doesn't need it, then I wouldn't worry about it just yet.

There are many resources online, codecademy is probably the best for you in this situation. But there are literally millions of tutorials online that you may find useful, when I first stated out I found YouTube helpful as you can follow the code being written to see what it does in real time.

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