Obviously, using WordPress makes things a lot easier for me. I don’t have to code all the pretty little features this site has. And as easy as it is to play with themes, mess around with some formatting, and change some fonts, it’s always clear to me that this isn’t how you make a *real* website. Not to denigrate the value of WordPress- a news website with over a million hits a month uses WordPress for easy multi-author publishing.

I took a class in which one project required I create an example of simple, image-guided documentation. I chose to make an HTML site, and learned CSS to a minute degree to go with. I just wanted to make this post to illustrate the differences between this WordPress site and that HTML site, and how one day, maybe I can get to the skill level of making a site like this, but bit-by-bit, like my instruction page.

 

Here’s a link to the code for the site- I obviously didn’t host it

download, unzip, and double click the HTML file. It should open in your default browser.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5PGN3fILKp7S2FYcm1vQk1lekU