Build a Simple Website with HTML, CSS, JavaScript - Course for Beginners

Improve your skills in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS by building a social media dashboard with a dark/light theme. Jess, who runs the popular Coder Coder KZbin channel, will guide you through a beginner Frontend Mentor challenge.
✏️ Course created by @TheCoderCoder
Resources:
🔗 Responsive Design for Beginners! coder-coder.com/responsive/
🔗 Source code on GitHub: github.com/thecodercoder/fem-...
🔗 Challenge on Frontend Mentor: www.frontendmentor.io/challen...
🔗 Andy Bell: Create a user controlled dark or light mode -- piccalil.li/tutorial/create-a...
⭐️ Contents ⭐️
Part 1
⌨️ (0:00:00) Intro
⌨️ (0:01:26) Functional requirements of design
⌨️ (0:11:31) Accessible form controls
⌨️ (0:15:37) Update CSS custom properties with JS
⌨️ (0:23:39) Screen reader-only text
Part 2
⌨️ (0:29:10) Creating GitHub repo
⌨️ (0:34:33) Set up SCSS and JS files
⌨️ (1:09:55) Set up Gulp workflow
Part 3
⌨️ (1:31:24) Studying the design
⌨️ (1:37:10) Building out the top bar
⌨️ (1:51:42) Using accessible markup
⌨️ (2:04:55) Styling top bar
⌨️ (2:23:26) Styling toggle and make accessible
Part 4
⌨️ (3:24:56) What is BEM? Planning out the class names
⌨️ (3:36:46) Adding the markup and the SCSS selectors for the cards
⌨️ (3:47:30) Styles for card
⌨️ (4:16:41) Layout for the card grid with flexbox, then CSS grid
⌨️ (4:33:26) Styling the top bars on the cards
⌨️ (4:49:36) Bottom cards markup and styles
Part 5
⌨️ (5:33:54) Changing the toggle based on comments
⌨️ (5:54:42) Use system preferences to load light or dark theme
⌨️ (6:18:24) Build the toggle logic to manually change light/dark theme
⌨️ (6:43:34) Save toggle settings in local storage
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[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks so much for working with me on this video course! Hope it's helpful to people :D

[@mirjalol_shamsiddinov]

u are professional coder, why didnt u make it in atmost lets say with explanation in 2 hours, Why 7 hours for simple single page??

[@sidenote1459]

Been following your channel for a long time, so happy to see you hear!

[@vardhan8741]

@@mirjalol_shamsiddinov maybe teaching amateurs takes more time than doing on own.

[@TheCoderCoder]

@@mirjalol_shamsiddinov 7 hrs is about 1 day of work, which is a pretty reasonable amount of time to build 1 webpage, from my work experience. Also, in addition to that, I make sure to take the time to explain all my thought processes and problem-solving. My goal isn't to just show you *what* I do so you just copy whatever I'm doing on screen, but *how* I do it-- that way you can learn and apply those principles in future projects. It does take longer, but I think it's worth it to be thorough. Hope this helps explain why it's this long!

[@mirjalol_shamsiddinov]

@@TheCoderCoder yes, cool. Now i got u

[@ashwatirao3036]

I have learned so much from you guys in college that i decided i was gonna donate a small amount once i start earning! Kudos😄

[@abhisheksingh-np8yi]

You did it. Good job.

[@bryanlittle4647]

This is awesome seeing you work through real world problems in real time and not running some canned presentation that has been de-bugged. Good job Jess and strong work.

[@so_val]

Love seeing the actual process of googling and finding the right approach. Feels more immersive.

[@mustafawael8617]

I thoroughly enjoy watching informative videos that teach me how to approach and organize a project before beginning its construction. Your work is highly valued and appreciated. Thank you very much! 😊

[@danielleivy8180]

The process is real, lol. I've been coding for about 6 years but since I've become used to frameworks I actually have to go back and review best practices for html and the like (I expect things to change, so I step back and learn again). This video is so refreshing :) And heads up to all the new coders out there - this process doesn't stop. Get used to always being a student in research mode (not a bad thing). Edit: I do her beginner thought process in Trello boards - maybe that's overkill? Having an in-project doc seems simpler...

[@Kosseron]

When you work with frameworks, SDks you forget core code:) same happens to me. Hahahahahaha

[@mahad7966]

Coder Coder is such a good teacher😄

[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks for watching!

[@Stabby666]

As a PCB designer and C/C++ dev who only really works on WebGL/shaders when I get pulled into web projects, this was very useful for me to see how the other parts of a project are organised and compiled. My last actual web project where I added more than a canvas element in the html was over 10 years ago :)

[@haiangtran2036]

Which career is better now!? 😂

[@luissalazar8996]

After working on it little by little every day I finally finished! Had a lot of fun and learned a lot on the way. Not the biggest fan of SCSS but always good to learn new things!

[@joelwalkley3902]

This is absolute gold! I'm only an hour in, but THANK YOU for taking us through your thought process for investigation and breaking down the problem and project setup. So so so valuable.

[@TheCoderCoder]

Glad this was helpful for you!

[@illegalsmirf]

Plain HTML, CSS and JS? What a breath of fresh air

[@keithrincon]

Just wanted to take a minute while being 2 hours into this project... (So far so good!) Just to thank you for putting in the time on making this project and this video. I just wish I could recommend a thing, but it's been perfect so far. I liked how you searched for things, explained the short hands. You've been such a blessing. Thank you so much. I hope you keep these up. You've been my favorite tutor, professional, coder, master... the list goes on and on. 🙌🏼❤

[@durwankurnaik1471]

Stayed all the way from start till the end and man what a great video, just wanted to see how a developer does all the hard work when they get stuck. Very useful to see your thought process and the solutions that you made using internet. Overall great 7 hours for my coding career.

[@TheCoderCoder]

Awesome, glad this was helpful!

[@emmanuelbinen6554]

Such a wonderful teacher! You make coding very interesting. I’m now one of your subscribers. Thank you so much.

[@bonsaipropaganda]

i really like her real no nonsense way of teaching. shes really straight to the point and legit. i also really like the chill and relaxed style paired with the chill lofi music. super nice. too many tutorials hurt my ears and head just based on their style lol this one is chill tho. im an hour in and i really appreciate the slow pace as well. I don't know anything about web dev except what html, css, and javascript are. I've done game dev before tho. so the slow pace is really nice. i pause and look things up when she mentions things I dont understand

[@reubenareang1817]

I never understand Css , now that i watch this i begin to understand how css properties work, thanks Jessica i have learn alot from...Love from India😊😊

[@AkinsRealm]

As a designer with html/css coding abilities, I benefit from her channel, this is another great video thank you Jess and freeCodeCamp!

[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks so much for watching this and following my channel!

[@AkinsRealm]

@@TheCoderCoder Thank you! 🎉

[@Salano_Lolkirik]

You guys read minds now🥺🥺

[@Kidoshe_Amikuranyakish]

Yeah, we read minds

[@kylecollie7813]

Made it the end! Great job Jessica! Enjoyed and learned: success.

[@raviteja9298]

thank you for doing this! I followed all the way, took 4 days, learned a lot!

[@alexchinchay7600]

Another great course from Jess, thank you very much.

[@gabrielgomesmabiala6707]

Your work is amazing your teaching approach incredible keep going, really appreciated your work

[@stnhld2841]

Amazing video. Nowhere near done yet but I’m sure will be a great template for the project I’m working on. More of a back-end dev so your approach with functions and mixins seems like a totally sensible approach to me.

[@KrishnaNinama]

Was searching for such a course yesterday. Thank you

[@blasm1713]

Yeeiii, coder coder now I work as a programmer, since a year ago. Thanks for your videos!!❤

[@TheCoderCoder]

Congrats!!

[@nigelbowie9957]

Awesome video. You demonstrated that it is okay to not know everything about a project. You did well at using the net to find credible solutions and not only copy and paste but study how each code works.

[@solaraproject3614]

The beautfy of this tutorial is the thought process and how it is in production(how devs actually operates).

[@NkosiLion]

thanks for sharing! it was refreshing to watch you process. cheers

[@BorisDiRocco]

Thanks so much for the lesson!, see you again today.

[@user-kr9bc6tu8w]

Thank you a lot - the most valuable thing in such a lesson that you can see real-time develpment process - to see different difficulties and how they are resolved. Not even so much the solutions themselves, but what their search looks like. It's just great! I'm just studying the frontend now, but let me make a couple of observations. Regarding the toggle - I rather percept it as a regular button (press to activate dark mode, and press to deactivate) - like a button on a flashlight. In the radiobutton case it must be two visible labels here without any options. And if its a button - the button label have to do the same work - activate/deactivate the dark mode - is the most logical behavior of this element on the page. So I implemented it this way - it could be a inside pushed outside by "position: relative" or it could be a for - that's simplier to stylize. In JS it seems to be better realization it you keep and pay attention whether the user has ever changed the color theme mannually or not: if yes - in the future we ignore the system settings, if not - we always follow the operating system. Also it seems for me that every card in the page should be not just , but rather a link - if it's hoverable - it's for sure clickable and also have to be navigated by tab (replacing by is a better decistion then inject "tabindex" into every div manually). Thanks again for such a valuable video tutorial!

[@twistedmetal7882]

There is actually a VScode extension that converts px to rem as you write css/scss. it's called: px to rem & rpx & vw (cssrem) by cipchk

[@geeboug]

I followed all the way - super helpful - thanks!

[@jayeshlale1999]

Whoa, feels good for jess to see her in this great channel ❤

A very interesting video about the creation of a website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, well explained. Congratulations!

[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks for watching!

[@AhmadMaartmesrini]

that was something I learned a lot from!!! Thank you very much 💜💜💜

[@ridingcoach3712]

In 15 minutes, I learned so much about the process of research and what resources can be helpful. Can't wait to finish this course, thank you!

[@El_Bartto]

Jess is the best, I learn more from her than my teachers, I know about Git thanks to her

[@maxfrischdev]

Thanks for the great Tutorial, Jess and FCC ❤

[@islamhe530]

i was looking for an explanation like that for a long time

[@umehmoses8118]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ really enjoyed your class and the music... Thanks.. big fan

[@grotsunfull]

Nice job!

[@EricsWormPlayground]

I am 10 minutes in and LOVE the format of troubleshooting a problem or request like this from the bottom up. Wow!

[@EricsWormPlayground]

I am an hour in and as a newbie intermediate I really wish she just built it using normal css vs the large scale scss. Love how she teaches as she does things. Note to self: learn scss asap.

[@EricsWormPlayground]

92 minutes in and she just finished the scss setup. Really wish she hit the project as a lower level coder would have. It was a beginner challenge wasnt it?

[@EricsWormPlayground]

3.5 hours in, and I am pretty confident she used advanced large site management skills on a beginner single site page. It’s helpful seeing her methods

[@feranmiadegbola2921]

Love your teaching ❤❤

[@Qasimyousaf-zw5kw]

Best method of teaching 👍👍

[@johnnymoore948]

Awesome course. Thanks a lot for it!

[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks for watching!

[@dancingstar1852]

Done. Thanks for the tutorial)

[@rayturner1490]

Thank you Great Content. Will you be Hooking up with backend API's next to make it fully functional?

[@naweendanushka3358]

Great video , many thanks for your effort 🙏💚

[@metalheadgamers6376]

You guys are literally theee best!!!

[@rbedson8965]

i am at the 5:02:29 and being this far i think it would have been a bit easier if you wrap both section inside a single container so that it would be easy while developing and inside those section h2 tag and cards tag and other things. In addition to this border-top should have been done using pseudo element for all card not only for Instagram that way if again some card have gradient border-top then it can be easily managed as background with height can be used for gradient in pseudo element

[@fuesto]

Insane, thank you for your effort and you time !

[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@mohammedmohammedhassanseli1981]

really excellent thanks 👍

[@manelslama4743]

Thank you so much it was educational and also fun❤❤

[@hamzaalbabeli5543]

I really need this thank you very much

[@MichaelHoumann]

In the gulp file where you are importing sass, write const sass = require('gulp-sass')(require('dart-sass')); instead of const sass = require(gulp-sass)(require('sass') then everything will work like you set up in the beginning, and no need to install sass and the math library

[@CamaguNcoso]

Can you pls help with the error I get "ReferenceError: primordials is not defined" when I run gulp in the terminal?

[@defo-codeakata]

This is amazing.

[@serignembackecoly5916]

This course is great !!!!

[@hue_sane]

Another marathon course 👍

[@mukeshodhano4094]

@TheCoderCoder you are back love your content and sass Course

[@TheCoderCoder]

Thanks so much!

[@pranshulgupta7514]

Great tutorial for beginners, myself being one😅, thanks a lot! I have a doubt though, you haven't considered users with their OS theme set to custom, instead of Light or Dark🤔.

[@chipmasteri93]

Thanks!

[@pirlaikz]

Starting out it looked really promising and she seems like a great mentor. When I started installing npm packages. Hell started. I Got 12 high vulnerability warnings. Some were depricated so i unfortunatley had to stop at that point after hours of debugging. This is rough on a beginner having to deal with all that before beeing able to code. Or in my case giving up on this tutorial.

[@sounmanhong6601]

Thank you again, freeCodeCamp!

[@kumarsanjay95]

💓💓 loveable & learnable 💓💓

[@esraaabuallah]

Great tutorial ! I solved the gradient border of instagram card in much simpler way using border image without any pseudo elements

[@Irusssha]

Thank you for the course! Although I got stuck while installing pachages: 9 packages required funding and I got an error : UnauthorizedAcces while running gulp. Do we have to contribute to all the sources? Thank you!

[@RahulKumar-md5ml]

Great job freecode 👍👍👍👍👍

[@a.majidawan5974]

Hey if you rotate the toggle button I think this may help for dark mode

[@shahsuresh75]

Great Video. Thank You..

[@rinzler749]

omg didn't expect her here I'll definitely watch this one

[@xxxTentacion-UI8]

My fav cod coder🎉🎉❤

[@abigbiscuit]

Thank you! Very informational vid. Just one question if anyone in the comments knows the answer. When I open the github repository in vsc I dont get the .gitatributes file??? Am I missing something. I installed git too.

[@cbbcbb6803]

I like the dark-light toggle.

[@Mariio-]

Excellent

[@guy1407]

Hello and thanks for the demo. Current status of npm issue is: 11 vulnerabilities (3 high, 8 critical) What can we do with it now?

[@kokoaung2914]

Hello fcc, thank for best computer science courses. I am wondering about space exploration courses with computer science? Do you have plan about that?

[@zakuguriin4521]

Looking at words so long they look wrong is something that happens to me ALL THE TIME at my job 🤣

[@rahmanmusah4470]

Do I have to take this course after Dave Gray's Html and Css?

[@wellumm]

Thought it would be a good practice building a website with js for a beginner I didn't know I need to learn Sass as well 😕 Appreciate the work though

[@fudgeebear03]

I need this rn and it's pop 🎉😮

[@Kosseron]

I remember the days like 10 years ago i used to code with notepad for fun not notepad+ :) I am back end developer now, i miss css html. I am not sure if SaSs still around for css? I used to work with that, amd bootstrap.

[@CharlesSmall]

Thark you i lke this video.

[@abhirajsinha3186]

had fun trying out this project and understanding a developer's workflow. The resources introduced in this video will be surely helpful in the future. Thank you again @freeCodeCamp and @CoderCoder for the guide!

[@palazzoneguiseppe8281]

Hello, what theme do you use in visual studio code?

[@s.m.2607]

Can u give a road map of graduating from CS ? Which topics are usually learn in this phase? Which skills and languages should we learn to complete on our own!?

[@aammssaamm]

If you cannot get even a curriculum from any college of university, then how are you going to manage your studying on your own?

[@s.m.2607]

@@aammssaamm bro the curriculum is available on online for every uni But how they are completing it, which books they are completing, which approach they are taking, how many projects Etc etc

[@aammssaamm]

@@s.m.2607 That's still just a google search task. You may want to look for a simpler career.

[@Gc7788m]

Thanks so much

[@devdev513]

It is preferable to simply set font-site to 62.5% of the default font size, which is 16 px, making 1 rem equivalent to 10 px. No further functions should be written.simply suggestions :D

[@TheCoderCoder]

That does work, but I wouldn't recommend it nowadays, as there are better alternatives out there. Search for Josh Comeau's article called "The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility" that talks about "The 62.5% trick". I highly recommend his blog 🔥

[@mobinaghazi9054]

hello thanks for this wonderfull cource but i coudn't install gulp and im confues about it .can enyone help me?

[@rbedson8965]

HELP NEEDED !!!!! when light color is selected in my window then site is not loading the default state when I check everything is good but its taking the background color style from prefers-color-scheme: dark, what might be the reason anyone knows?

[@LoL-hv6px]

the UI is crazy

[@MotasemAli-jn5uh]

ive dived with you and forgot that the one with screen reader cannot differentiate between dark or light mode :| (not all of them)

[@jakubfrei3757]

Im quite experienced in JavaScript, but i Will love to refresh it with this video! :)

[@Dontgo5]

You are so cute and sweet. thank you for having awareness and zooming in so we can actually see unlike everyone else

[@bonsaipropaganda]

I can’t wait to watch this. Ok I’m gonna go to bed so I can watch this

[@TheDTVOfficial]

Coder coder!!! ❤

[@user-qj7lo5ox7j]

cool video)

[@ImKaijuLive]

whats the theme called i love those colors

[@surajkumarsingh4857]

Awesome

[@rajbeersingh3426]

I want to open my blogging website where I put ads and also use it for affiliate marketing. Should I build website? I want full control on my website. Plz answer and if you have any other suggestions plz reply in comment box

[@xstrikerxdr6177]

I would recommend to use the gap property for spacing div elements :) agree?