What do you start off with, when creating your new site from scratch?

HTML, CSS
Javascript
PHP
laravel

E - none of the above

I start with pen and paper.

Well, OK, I guess the real “start” is the idea.

But for me, I have some trouble keeping all my thoughts organized and more trouble remembering them.

So writing a rough “outline” of what I want in terms of content and features is a big help.

After that, I may work on Design or I may work on Development depending on what mood I’m in at the time.
And I work on things in manageable sized steps.

In any case, for me, CSS and JavaScript come in last or near last.
I like to make sure my HTML and PHP are as sound as I can get them before adding on “extras”

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Yep - none of the above!

I start with an idea of the content requirements will be, eg if it’s an ecommerce site it will have (at least) products, a checkout and misc information, and work from there. The actual site build, technologies and so on really comes a lot later in the process - after all you can’t build/design until you know what’s needed.

As the great Jeffrey Zeldman said:

Design in the absence of content is decoration

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