Project 2 - My Inspiration
Simple HTML Pages
The purpose of this project is to build a simple page that describes a person that inspires you.
The world can be a dark place, and we all need a little inspiration.
Who inspires you to make
the world a little brighter?
Select one historical or public figure. Describe why they inspire you and what your response is toward them and what they believe in. Create an article that invites your peers to admire your hero. Use your persuasion skills to win others over. You will be judged based strength of your writing by your peers.
Goals
- Learn about Web Hosting with Github Pages.
- Build a simple web page by copying and pasting code.
- Create a website using Github Pages.
Steps
Setup your development workflow
- Github Desktop
- Make sure you pull recent code
- Brackets
- Open the folder that is at the top of your repo
- Browser
- Run your browser for testing
- Live preview in Brackets or double-click file
Work in small steps
- Test your work in the browser every minute
- Fix anything that doesn't look right
- Every 15 minutes commit and push your changes
Build Home Page
- Create page "bacs200/index.html"
- Add text from Sample Page Template
- Customize this page for you
Build Template Page
- Create page "bacs200/template.html"
- Add text from Page Template
- Customize this page for you
Build Profile Page
- Create page "bacs200/profile.html"
- Add text from Profile Page
- Customize this page for you
Build Inspire Page
- Create page "bacs200/inspire.html"
- Add text from Sample Page Template
- Write an article on your hero
- Include a link to an online image
Test Your Home Page
- Try this link at YOUR_WEBSITE/bacs200/index.html
- This should show your Test Page
- Keep working until this link takes you to your test page
Grading Your Page
- This project is worth 30 points
- To get full credit all pages should load
- YOUR_WEBSITE/bacs200/index.html
- YOUR_WEBSITE/bacs200/template.html
- YOUR_WEBSITE/bacs200/profile.html
- YOUR_WEBSITE/bacs200/inspire.html
- Try it now.
Requirements
- Registered a Github account
- Created a Github Pages repo
- Links are properly set within the Sensei server
- Text that you wrote appears on your page
- Page bacs200/index.html exists with proper content
- Page bacs200/template.html exists with proper content
- Page bacs200/profile.html exists with proper content
- Page bacs200/inspire.html exists with proper content