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Inspiring
November 27, 2017
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A little worried :) Dreamweaver cc

  • November 27, 2017
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I am going to design a landing page for our e learning portal. I have experience designing websites, however, I have not designed one in a few years. And I worked primarily in tables not divs.

Since it's just one page I'm not too worried. However, my knowledge of java-script is extremely limited.

So wish me luck as I use Dreamweaver cc to make a masterpiece out of HTML, CSS, Java-Script and the rest.

Oh yeah, and I would appreciate any rah rahs and words of encouragement and advice.

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AnotherMeAuthor
Inspiring
November 27, 2017

The first thing I should do is create a outline with divs correct?

pziecina
Legend
November 27, 2017

AnotherMe  wrote

The first thing I should do is create a outline with divs correct?

It depends.

If you wish your site to have the built in accessibility feature of html5, then you should outline your sites structure, complete with the relationship between the parts of the page, e.g.-

If you are showing different sections to the offered e-learning tutorials, then each one could be a seperate section of the home page, each section could be a complete 'self contained' section with its own articles, headings or even menu and footers if you wish.

(don't confuse the use of section above with the html5 semantic element by the same name).

Html and css has moved on dramatically since table layouts were used, try reading selected parts of -

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2017

HTML = content

CSS = style

JavaScript = interactivity

What do you need JavaScript for?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
AnotherMeAuthor
Inspiring
November 27, 2017

I might need JavaScript for things such a drop down menus.

pziecina
Legend
November 27, 2017

AnotherMe  wrote

I might need JavaScript for things such a drop down menus.

Not required, even making the menu fade-in/out, or bounce, can now be done with css animations.

pziecina
Legend
November 27, 2017

My advice is that if you are worried about javascript, then do not use it. Even animations can now be done using css, (though i would not recommend a beginner try doing so).

As for using tables, don't. Divs are o/k but html5 semantics are better.

The question is though, what do you wish to do, even a screen shot of a sketch with notes would enable us to advise you better, (though expect lots of disagreement about the 'how to').