In order to document our work for Fab Academy, we were required to design a website and upload all our weekly assignments including our final project. The only website design I’ve done was on platforms such as www.wix.com and www.weebly.com which was not sufficient.
Therefore, since I had no knowledge in coding, I attended a tutorial that included finding an HTML template, then editing it on Brackets, and finally uploading it using Git Bash.
We started off by using www.w3schools.com to better understand the basics of HTML, such as adding test, links, lists, images, and buttons.
To get a free template, we used www.startbootstrap.com which is where I found “Clean Blog” as the best theme for uploading my work in a clean and minimal way.
After downloading the template, we learnt how to upload it on Brackets, by simply dragging and dropping. Brackets is a convenient editor that automatically saves any changes and allows users to see live changes which altering the code.
Finally, we used Git Lab (the online platform) and Git Bash (the computer software) to upload our websites. Things got complicated for me here, as sometimes my changes would be pushed, while other times, nothing would happen. I found it to have very random behavior.
The commands mainly used were:
- cd: to specify the website file location
- git add -A: to add all the files
- git commit -m “f”: to give a title to the addition
- git push: to push all files to the online Git Lab account
After lots of trial and error, I got the hang of it and managed to successfully upload my website and prepare a format uploading weekly updates.