About The Tutorial

It is recommended that you follow the tutorial as closely as possible. This allows you to troubleshoot most issues on your own. If you find an errors, typos, or discrepancies, please let us know.

Screenshots

Visual Studio Code is used as the code editor for coding specific screenshots. It is likely that your code editor will look slightly different.

Sass support

This tutorial uses sass. This allows us to easily override the default bootstrap colors. The few extra steps at the beginning saves us from writing more CSS to accomplish the same goal. See: Professional Installation

After following the installation guide and compiling the sass (step 7), your site should look like this:

Starting Page

The Starting Page.

If it does not look like that:

  • Make sure you compiled the sass and followed Professional Installation and not the basic installation

  • Check that your stylesheet is linked in mysite/website/templates/coderedcms/pages/base.html

  • Hard refresh your browser to reload the CSS stylesheet.

Linked Style Sheet

The Style sheet is linked on line 14

Note

Every time a change is made to the sass files we have to compile it and hard refresh the browser.

Follow the tutorial: Tutorial Part 1: Site Name, Logo, and Global Colors.