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Learning WebDev
Learning WebDev
7,983 Points
Posted by Learning WebDev
Learning WebDev
7,983 Points

Feedback and help pretty please?

Hi all,

So I now know some HTMl and CSS and I'm pretty comfortable making changes to existing code. My problem is, I'm not good at making new sites.

I decided I'd look up some small local businesses with older sites and see if I could make a newer looking site using their existing content.

I found this local hairdressers site: http://styleworksexeter.co.uk/ and then looked at other local hairdressers sites for inspiration. They used a simple bootstrap type layout with a wordpress backend for the most part so I thought I'd have a go at making a bootstrap page.

Link: http://codepen.io/hdeaville/pen/f3b7903c037248854a5738346959c7d2

It doesn't look very good and I don't really know how to make it better. I could use a pair of more experienced eyes to tell me where I'm going wrong and what to look at to improve.

Thanks!

P.S - Sorry for the unorganised CSS. It's on my to-do list!

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It just takes practice, really. It's been a while since I've looked at Bootstrap but really all your doing when working with Bootstrap (and Foundation) is building page using blocks of code. You can of course customise it further with your own CSS but to use certain parts of Bootstrap you have to format your HTML in a certain way.

I would urge you to just practice. The documentation on Boostrap will teach you all there is to know about Bootstrap. Good luck. :-)