Just starting to learn how to hand code websites and need some help putting all the pieces together so the website will actually display correctly? This tutorial shows you from start to finish how to style a header, logo, navigation, content area and footer. Complete this tutorial and you will have a better understanding of how to hand code any website.
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Having to change 50 different pages to fix a link in your menu or adding a menu item in your footer can be quite a daunting task and quite frankly, not something you will want to do often. Using includes is a simple method of removing common parts of your code into a separate file and including them where you need it. It’s very simple to implement and you’ll be left wondering why you didn’t think of this when you were coding that big site.
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