Designing & Building Websites is Easy
Summary
TLDRThis video script offers a streamlined approach to learning web development, emphasizing the importance of finding the 'flow state' for efficient skill acquisition. It suggests using the 80/20 rule to focus on essential tools like Figma for design, HTML and CSS for implementation, and JavaScript for functionality. The script advocates for learning by doing, using online resources to tackle challenges step-by-step, and highlights the significance of solving real-world problems over mastering tools.
Takeaways
- 😀 To build a website, you need skills in design (Figma), implementation (HTML, CSS), and functionality (JavaScript).
- 🚀 Focus on achieving a state of flow to learn new skills efficiently by finding a balance between the task and your abilities.
- 📚 Apply the 80/20 rule to reduce learning difficulty by mastering the essential 20% of tools to achieve 80% of the results.
- 🔍 Use Google, YouTube, and other resources to find quick solutions and initiate a positive feedback loop for motivation.
- 🎨 When designing, start simple and replicate existing designs to learn and then create your own.
- 🔑 Utilize Figma's features like auto layout, components, and variables to streamline the design process.
- 🛠️ Break down complex designs into smaller elements and use rows and columns for effective web design.
- 📝 In web design, focus on content and interaction to ensure the design is both informative and user-friendly.
- 💻 Start building websites with basic HTML and CSS, then progress to JavaScript for added functionality.
- 🔗 Understand the importance of linking CSS to HTML for styling and use variables to maintain consistency in design.
- 🌐 Learn to use flexbox for responsive design, allowing elements to adapt to different screen sizes.
Q & A
What are the essential tools and skills needed to build a website according to the script?
-The essential tools and skills needed to build a website include Figma for design, HTML and CSS for implementing the design, and JavaScript for adding functionality.
What does the term 'state of flow' refer to in the context of learning new skills?
-The 'state of flow' refers to finding a balance between one's skills and the task at hand, where the task is challenging enough to keep one focused without causing boredom or frustration.
What is the 8020 rule as mentioned in the script and how does it apply to learning tools for building websites?
-The 8020 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, suggests that 20% of the effort will yield 80% of the results. In the context of learning tools for building websites, it means focusing on learning just enough (20%) to achieve the main tasks (80%), rather than trying to learn everything.
How does the script suggest reducing the difficulty level when learning a new skill?
-The script suggests reducing the difficulty level by focusing on the 20% of the skills or tools that will be used 80% of the time, and by using resources like Google and YouTube to find quick solutions and tutorials.
What is the purpose of looking at competitors' designs when starting a new web design project?
-Looking at competitors' designs can provide content and design ideas, as good design solves problems, and understanding what works for others in the same field can be beneficial.
What is the two-column layout mentioned in the script and why does it work for most businesses?
-The two-column layout is a classic web design structure that separates content into two vertical sections. It works for most businesses because it is simple, effective for displaying information, and easy to build.
Why is it recommended to start by replicating designs when learning web design?
-Starting by replicating designs helps beginners to understand the principles of good design and the functionality of elements without the pressure of creating something original from scratch.
What is the significance of creating components in Figma and how does it help in the design process?
-Creating components in Figma allows for consistency and efficiency in the design process. If a design element is used multiple times, changes made to the original component will automatically update all instances of that element in the design.
What is the 'Go Live' plugin mentioned in the script and how does it help in building websites?
-The 'Go Live' plugin is a tool in Visual Studio Code that allows developers to see their HTML code rendered in a browser in real-time, which helps in quickly testing and debugging the website as it is being built.
How does the script suggest learning HTML and CSS for building a website?
-The script suggests learning HTML and CSS by implementing a design, starting with the basics, and using resources like Google and YouTube to find quick solutions and tutorials when needed.
What is the importance of using variables in CSS as mentioned in the script?
-Using variables in CSS helps in maintaining consistency throughout the design and makes it easier to make global changes, such as updating colors or font styles, with a single modification.
Why is it recommended to set a width of 100% for images in the script?
-Setting a width of 100% for images ensures that they occupy all available space without overflowing the screen boundaries, which is important for responsive design.
What role does the flexbox play in the script's approach to building websites?
-Flexbox is used to manage the layout of elements within a webpage, allowing for a dynamic and fluid container that adjusts the size and position of elements on different screens.
What is the main takeaway from the script regarding learning new skills for web development?
-The main takeaway is to focus on solving specific problems using the skills or tools, rather than focusing solely on learning the tools themselves. Learning by doing is presented as the easiest and fastest way to learn anything.
Outlines
🚀 Building a Website: Tools and Skills Needed
To build a website, you need skills in design, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Instead of spending months learning these, this channel focuses on quick and easy methods. The key is to get into a state of flow, balancing skill and task difficulty. Use the 80/20 rule: learn 20% of the tools to achieve 80% of the results. Start by doing tasks to create a positive feedback loop. Use Google and YouTube for quick learning and begin with small, manageable projects. Learning is about doing and solving problems incrementally.
💡 Simplifying the Design Process
Begin your design process by opening Figma and exploring community inspirations. Focus on content and interaction. Start with simple, tried-and-tested layouts like two columns. Use Google to find suitable fonts and sizes, and practice by copying existing designs. Gradually, you'll be able to create original designs. Use features in Figma, such as auto-layout and components, to streamline your work. Components allow you to make changes universally across your design. Break down complex designs into smaller, manageable elements and solve problems one step at a time.
🛠️ Building Your Website: HTML and CSS Basics
To build a website, start with HTML and CSS. Install VS Code, create an HTML file, and begin coding basic elements like headings, paragraphs, buttons, and images. Use CSS to style your elements by linking it to your HTML file. Focus on assigning fonts, colors, and other styles using variables from your Figma design. Use class names to style specific elements and Flexbox to manage layout and positioning. By dividing problems into smaller tasks, you can gradually build up your skills and confidence. Learning by doing is key, and it's important to solve real-world problems using these tools.
🌐 Developing the Hero Section with HTML and CSS
Create a hero section by grouping elements with div tags and using Flexbox for dynamic layout management. Apply Flexbox to the parent element (body tag) for flexible and responsive designs. Set width and margins to center your content and ensure it adapts to different screen sizes. Create variables for fonts and colors to maintain consistency. Use class names for specific styles and apply cascading style sheets to manage element properties efficiently. Building incrementally and practicing through solving design problems will enhance your skills over time.
🎯 Focus on Problem-Solving and Real-World Applications
The best way to learn is by solving real-world problems. After mastering HTML and CSS, move on to JavaScript for adding functionality. Employers seek problem-solvers who can use tools to address business needs. Practical experience, such as building a WordPress site for a friend or designing a website that helps a business, is more valuable than theoretical knowledge. The focus should be on using tools to solve specific problems, enhancing learning through doing. This approach applies to any skill, including video editing or coding, ensuring practical and efficient learning.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Figma
💡HTML
💡CSS
💡JavaScript
💡State of Flow
💡80/20 Rule
💡YouTube
💡Auto Layout
💡Components
💡Flexbox
Highlights
To build a website, one needs skills and tools like Figma for design, HTML and CSS for implementation, and JavaScript for functionality.
The channel focuses on quick and easy learning by getting into the state of flow, which is a balance between skills and task difficulty.
Learning should be paced to avoid boredom or frustration, following the 8020 rule to achieve results efficiently.
The 8020 rule suggests learning only 20% of a tool to accomplish 80% of the tasks, simplifying the learning process.
Google, YouTube, and other resources can assist in learning the essential parts of a tool for specific tasks.
To initiate a positive feedback loop, start by doing things that yield quick results to stay motivated.
When designing, begin by replicating existing designs to understand the basics before creating original work.
Web design should focus on content and interaction, ensuring the design effectively communicates and engages users.
Use Figma's type tool and auto layout features to create flexible and adaptable designs.
Components in Figma allow for consistent design elements that can be easily updated across the project.
Design systems in Figma, such as type scales and color variables, streamline the design process and updates.
When building a website, start with HTML and CSS, learning just enough to implement the design.
VS Code is used for coding websites, with plugins like 'Go Live' to render code directly in the browser.
CSS properties and flexbox are essential for styling and positioning elements on a webpage.
Div tags and flexbox are fundamental in building responsive and organized web layouts.
Learning by doing is emphasized as the most effective way to acquire new skills, such as video editing or web development.
The speaker shares personal experiences of learning new skills by tackling real problems and projects.
The transcript concludes by stressing the importance of solving real-world problems over mastering tools.
Transcripts
to build a website you will need these
skills and tools figma to create a good
design HTML CSS to implement that design
and JavaScript to add functionality some
people spend months learning these tools
before building their first website but
on this channel we focus on making
things quick and easy and the easiest
way to learn new skills is to get in the
state of flow it means finding a balance
between your skills and the task at hand
if you have a task that is too easy you
will get bored
and if it's too hard you will get
frustrated or burned out you need to
keep the task just hard enough to keep
you focused that's why video games
increase in difficulty as you progress
through the game and life is a game as
well so always try to reduce the
difficulty level when learning a new
skill the easiest way to reduce the
difficulty is the classic 8020 rule do
20% of the work to get 80% of the result
so in reality you only need to learn 20%
of these tool tools to build websites
now how would you know what to learn and
what to skip just learn the bare minimum
to achieve the task in hand plus we have
Google YouTube and other tools that will
do most of the work first just do things
to get results that will initiate a
positive feedback loop to keep you
motivated for the next steps so if you
want to design something don't buy a
course or spend months in tutorial hell
watch a few videos and then design once
the design is ready ready watch a few
videos on HTML and CSS and start
building of course you will get stuck
and forget things go back and watch some
more videos then come back and proceed
with your task sometimes a normal Google
search is also enough professionals
Google stuff all the time once you learn
how to learn you can learn anything you
want let me show you open figma on your
browser or install the desktop app go to
community and find some inspirations
but this could get confusing as there
are a lot of designs to choose from a
better way is to look at your
competition after all good design solves
a problem and looking at your
competition will give you some content
and design ideas once you have some
content in mind we can start the design
process web design focuses on two things
number one content number two
interaction your design should do both
these things effectively let's start
simple Le just try to replicate this
design the classic tried and tested two
columns layout works for most businesses
and easy to build use the type tool to
write a heading but we need to decide
two things which font and size to use
here the answer is simple just ask
Google and after a few minutes you will
know the answer you see how you just
learned something new that is easy and
actually solves your current problem now
let's put a small paragraph
we already know which font and size to
use here but how much spacing between
the heading and the
paragraph again look it up with practice
these things will become very easy but
if you try to learn everything at once
you will either burn out or forget
everything in a few days in the
beginning just copy everything once you
get good at replicating designs you will
be able to create your own
designs let's adjust the spacing here
now we need a call to action button or
maybe two buttons depending on your
situation just write the action name
then press shift and a to create an auto
layout it's a handy feature in figma to
make flexible layouts more on that later
look for an image or illustration to go
with our heading this is important and
will take some time you don't need a
course to judge an image just use your
gut feeling to decide and if you are not
happy you can always use a different
image for now just keep moving forward
solve one small problem at a
time now as you will try to build next
sections the problems will get bigger
but there are amazing features in figma
to solve those
problems create a type scale and save
them as
variables do the same thing with the
colors every time we write or use color
in figma we use these variables so later
we can change the design with one
click let's turn turn that button into a
component so if we need another button
in the design we can just drag and drop
that button on the
page let's say the final design has six
buttons and we want to change the button
Style Just modify the original component
and every single button will change in
real
time we can turn anything into a
component then drop that into the page
to complete our design let's create a
card like YouTube this may look
difficult to replicate but designs are
just small elements arranged into rows
and columns you just have to break it
open design smaller elements
First Once you are happy with the design
turn that into a component now we can
use it how many times we want and change
the design whenever we
want so you don't need to learn
everything in figma you just need two
things the 20% that will be used 80% of
the time
speaking of 80% let's move on to the
actual building part because that is
where the designs come to life now
similar to designing we will solve one
small problem at a
time so just learn enough HTML and CSS
to start building once you build a few
basic websites you can start learning
JavaScript to add some
functionality let's start simple we will
learn HTML and CSS by implementing this
design we used figma to design our
website in the same way we will use vs
code to build our website so first
install it on your
computer once installed and running
create a folder where we will save our
files and images now we need to create
an HTML file to write our code just
write an exclamation point and hit enter
don't worry about all this code for now
just focus on the task at hand in the
body tag write H1 and press enter write
the heading and save your file to render
our code on the browser we are going to
install a plugin click go live and you
should see a website open up in the
browser congratulations you just created
a new
website H1 just means heading one H2
means heading to and so on to write a
normal sentence or paragraph just use P
you don't need to understand or remember
anything now Pro developers Google
syntax all the
time the important thing is to just
build something and gain some
confidence we will get to the Head tag
as well but for now let's add a button
and image to complete our hero section
to create a button we write button and
then whatever the action is but what we
have here is a link that is styled as a
button to add a link to the page we use
the anchor tag WR a and hit enter we
have two Fields here the reference and
the action name
for that we will use
CSS but first let's add the image as
well to add the image right IMG and hit
enter we have two values the source of
the image and the alternative text for
that image place the image in the folder
and reference it here now that we have
all the elements in place it's time to
style our page first create a CSS file
to write our code then we need to link
the CSS file in our HTML so the browser
can access the CSS as as well that is
the purpose of the head tag it contains
instructions for the browser that
doesn't appear on the
website now let's find and import our
font into the CSS
file again don't try to understand the
code just copy and
paste first thing we need is the fonts
and color style so let's bring our figma
variables into CSS just assign a name to
the colors and copy paste all the color
codes same thing for the headings and
paragraphs but we need four values here
font weight font size line height and
the font family you could have written
this in four lines as well property on
left and value on right CSS is very
straightforward you select the element
you want to Target then inside the curly
brackets do your magic whatever you
write here will be applied to the
element on the page so if we want to
change the background color to Black we
need to select the whole website by
selecting Sting the body tag then just
assign black color to the background
property but instead of writing color
manually we just use the variable we
created
earlier in the same way let's assign the
text color as
well to assign the font properties we
just write font and the value we created
earlier now let's turn this link into a
button once again let's select the
anchor tag and apply some values to IT
background to assign a background color
color for text and padding to give some
breathing
room now we have our first button ready
but we want a different style for the
secondary button how do we select that
if both have the same HTML
tag very easy just assign a class name
to that
button think of it as assigning a label
to an element you can label a lot of
things with the same class name and
Target them at
once more on that later for now we need
to style this button we target a class
by writing period followed by the class
name then just assign some values we
don't need background
color and a solid border again we used a
Shand for assigning the Border values
but something is still missing
here yeah the Border radius so let's
assign that as well we just have to
assign the values to the top element and
the rules will Cascade to all the
elements with the same tag or class name
that's why it's called cascading style
sheets to overwrite this we could
redeclare the values or add a class to
add
specificity but we are getting too
technical here and this is not the right
way to learn something new so let's get
back to the task at hand our heading
paragraph and the buttons are ready we
need to fix this image though the golden
rule is to set a width of 100% to all
your images so they occupy all the space
available and don't go out of
screen now our elements are ready but we
need to position them first we need to
divide these elements into two groups to
group elements we use a div tag every
single website is build of divs Imagine
them as boxes that contain HTML elements
together now to manage these boxes we
use an amazing and Powerful tool called
flexbox flexbox turns these boxes into a
dynamic and fluid container so these
boxes change their size and position on
different
screens I told you earlier that every
single website is build by divs well
they all use flexbox to manage those
divs so div and flexbox are a key part
of building
website we apply flexbox to the parent
element in the HTML tree a parent
element contains another elements within
it it is positioned higher in the
hierarchy just as a family tree now now
what is the parent element for our divs
it's the body tag so select the body in
the CSS and write display flex and we
are almost
there for oneon-one ratio we write Flex
one then Gap to create some space
between the boxes and align items to
align the items but our design is
covering the whole width of the screen
and that looks a bit cluttered let's set
a Max width to the website and set the
margin to Auto to keep things in the
center now let's see how this responds
to different screen
sizes well we don't want that so let's
set a minimum width to the boxes and
tell the boxes to wrap into the next row
on smaller screens
all right we have designed and
implemented a hero section and although
it's nothing fancy it's a start we
looked at variables Auto layout and
design system in figma HTML elements
Dives classes CSS variables properties
and flexbox in vs
code some people spent six months to get
to this point and some never made it so
far but when you break a big problem
into manageable chunks learning becomes
easier after solving enough design
problems through HTML and CSS you will
be faced to solve functionality problems
for that you will learn Java Script
after solving enough design and
functionality problems you will be ready
to solve real world problems and clients
or companies hire you to solve their
business problems and not to design or
write
code so don't focus on learning tools
instead focus on solving a specific
problem by using those tools forget
figma or vs code if you made a WordPress
website that actually helps a real
business you are already ahead of
someone who has watched hours of
tutorials but never built a single app
or
website so to wrap things up the easiest
way to learn a new skill is to solve a
problem by using that skill if you want
to learn video editing just edit a video
watch a couple of tutorials then proceed
with the video you will get stuck for
sure but you will find a solution and
move forward
before starting this channel I never
made a single video in my life I learned
WordPress in 2013 because my friend
needed a website I learned design
because my job required me to I learned
coding to improve my design portfolio
that was built on WordPress and every
time I learned a new skill I used this
exact method of learning learning by
doing the easiest and fastest way to
learn anything
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