Hello, World.

In your first assignment you will end up with a web page, no matter how simple, published on the web.

You will create a simple website that will showcase one of your passions. This is not about making the website flashy, but more about focusing on creating a website and learning your new tools.

For this assignment, you will following along with you instructors to complete this homework.

Objectives

Get to know your text editor
Introduce yourself to working on the command line
Write some HTML
Publish a web page

Requirements

Have git, hub, node, app-app installed. We should have done this together in class. Reminder: you only have to install these tools once.
All of your HTML (and CSS if you do epic mode) should be formatted cleanly and consistently (use your editor to your advantage).
If you have experience with existing HTML/CSS frameworks (bootstrap, bulma, etc) you may not use them for these assignments.

Explorer Mode

[ ] Follow all of the setup instructions.
[ ] Compose a short essay (just a couple paragraphs at most) about a hobby you either enjoy, or would like to learn about. We will be expanding on this page in future assignments, so pick something fun!
[ ] Put your short essay into an HTML page, using appropriate semantic HTML tags. (See the link HTML Tag Reference below). Give your webpage a simple header and footer as well.
[ ] Deploy your site.

Adventure Mode

[ ] Use at least one image somewhere on the page.
[ ] Learn about and investigate the a to add (at least 2) more pages to your site.
[ ] Re-deploy your site.
[ ] Read more about CSS.

Epic Mode

[ ] Research the id and class HTML attributes.
[ ] Use valid CSS to style the page (in the neighborhood of a couple dozen CSS declarations).
[ ] Create a full layout for your page (heading, navigation, sidebar, footer, etc.).
[ ] Use more complex CSS selectors than we covered in class, e.g. attribute selectors or sibling selectors.

Additional Resources

Reading Material

To prep for tomorrow's lesson, you can read about CSS.

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