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Building a Site - Introduction

Posted On June 13, 2006 6:53 AM By Phil in HTML,ColdFusion

Welcome to the first in a series of articles on building a website from scratch. In this series, I assume no prior knowledge of HTML, and later, ColdFusion. The first part of this series will involve building a static site using HTML and CSS only. The second part of the series will focus on a few areas of the site where dynamic and controlled access make sense, like a news area or player information.
So, what are we building? With an ode to the ongoing World Cup, we will build a website for a soccer team. Specifically, this site will have the following areas:

• Home page with news items plus detail areas for the news
  
• Schedule for upcoming and previous matches with result details
• Roster sheet with player profiles
• Team stats page
• A league wide standings area
• Gallery of action photos
  
• History/About page
• More detailed News area by category

Required items for this series of articles will increase as we go through each article. At first, since we are dealing with plain web pages, the only items needed are an editor to create an HTML page (Notepad works fine, but you can use Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe's dreamweaver or any other tool). I will use CFEclipse with the Web Tools Platfrom of Eclipse. The other tool you will need is a browser, either Internet Explorer or Firefox. The goal will be to create an article every-other-day until we have a nice series that can take someone from no or little HTML knowledge to being capable of simple HTML/ColdFusion websites.