How To Clone A Website

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If you’ve ever built a website from scratch, you know it can be a complex and time-consuming project. There are so many elements to consider, from the color palette to navigation to optimizing loading speed – and that’s just the beginning.

But fortunately, starting from scratch isn’t usually necessary. Instead, you can clone an existing website or parts of a website and then adapt the cloned code to your needs and create a completely new website. This process can be a much more efficient way of building a website. Whether you’re cloning a website for a client or for your personal portfolio, here are the steps to follow and some things to keep in mind when working with a cloned website.

Reading: How to create a copy of a website

First a few Basic Rules

Cloning a website is common in web development. But of course, you don’t want to just copy someone else’s website – you ultimately want to create your own unique website. Fortunately, there are simple steps you can take to avoid copying someone else’s outward-facing work directly.

First, think of cloning a website as a starting point – like a template – that you can tweak and personalize. You can then add your own ideas and designs to this template. The idea is to make the website completely your own, so you don’t have to worry about legal issues.

So watch out for content that is copied when you clone a website. You must replace any written or visual content.

How to clone a website using Google Chrome

One way to clone a website is provided by Google Chrome Developer Tools (DevTools), a developer toolkit conveniently built right into the Chrome browser.

Follow these steps to clone a website using Google Chrome:

Select an element on the page
Right click on the selected element and select “Inspect”
You can see the HTML code of the website above
when scrolling , you can see all elements of the page, from header to footer
As you select elements, you can see the CSS showing details like maximum width and margins
Click on the three dots at the top right of the page and select “Open File” which will show you all the files associated with this page
Enter the desired file, e.g. B. Styles. css or index.html, then select the code and copy it into a text editor or into a Codecademy workspace if you’ve signed up for Codecademy Pro

This method also works with javascript. You right-click the element, choose Inspect, and scroll through the elements on the page. If you find the JavaScript files, you can open them and copy them into your text editor.

Clone a complex website

Simple websites probably only have one CSS – and HTML file, but more complex websites like Twitter can have several. If you want to clone a website like this, follow these steps.

To copy the HTML code, select an element and click “Inspect” to open the DevTools. Then click on “Sources” at the top. The HTML code is displayed in this tab and you can select it, copy it, and then paste it into a text editor. Save the file with an .html extension (myfilename.html).

To copy the CSS, click “Elements” in the top navigation bar of DevTools. You will see the CSS in the middle of the page. Click main.CSS, which opens the code. Select and copy the code, then open a new sheet in your text editor and paste the CSS. Save the file with a .css extension.

Working with a cloned website

Once you’ve copied the code into your text editor, you can edit it and make it your own. Working with a cloned website is also a great way to learn how to code, as it gives you a glimpse of the inner workings of a live website. Here are the programming languages you will be working with when editing a cloned website.

HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is used to create the structure of a web page, including paragraphs, images, and bulleted lists. HTML uses elements to make components of the page behave in a certain way. For example, to mark text as a paragraph, you would use the

tag before the paragraph and

to end the paragraph. The elements in brackets are called tags.

CSS

While HTML gives websites their basic structure, such as headings and paragraphs, cascading style sheets or CSS a style for these elements. For example, you can use CSS to change the size and color of your text and links. You can also create interesting layouts with sidebars and create effects with CSS.

CSS starts with a selector that chooses the HTML element you want to change. For example, for an H1 heading, you would use h1 as the selector. This is followed by square brackets { }. Inside the brackets you have the property and the value.A headline would look like this:

h1 { color: blue; Font size: 5em; }

JavaScript

JavaScript is a programming language that allows you to add complexity to websites. It is used along with HTML and CSS to do things like zoom in or out on an image, show real-time updates, play audio or video, animate 3D graphics, and change the color of a button when you hover your cursor over it. JavaScript can also be used to build mobile apps, build web servers, and design and build browser games.

Get started with web design

Like you You can see, the steps to clone a website are pretty simple. The real work begins once you are ready to start modifying the cloned website. You need to be familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

New to programming? HTML is a good starting point for learning web design and getting the most out of cloned websites. Our Learn HTML course walks you through the basics, including tables and forms.

Learn CSS is a course that builds on your knowledge of HTML, teaching you colors, text size, fonts, alignment, and positioning of elements teaches. After that, you can check out Learning CSS Intermediate, where you will learn how to create more advanced visual effects and layouts.

If you are already familiar with HTML and CSS, our Learning JavaScript course will help you ‘ in building more advanced websites using JavaScript basics. Once you’ve mastered the basics, our course on creating interactive JavaScript websites will help you put everything you’ve learned into practice.

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