Too bad. Github.io is kind of unreliable. Is down now.
Make This in an Hour
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#72I feel like with Godaddy hosting I could make a website in like 2 minutes by pressing a few buttons.
But then you'd be using GoDaddy.
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#73I feel like with Godaddy hosting I could make a website in like 2 minutes by pressing a few buttons.
And ironically, no "Email" address at all to go with said GoDaddy hosting. Despite paying for a domain name, and a basic managed WordPress site.
Sorry, bit of a personal rant at my first GoDaddy experience.
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#75I feel like with Godaddy hosting I could make a website in like 2 minutes by pressing a few buttons.
Yep but you wouldn't get free hosting right?
I use 125mb.com for free hosting and they have the same one-button install feature if I remember correctly.
But for sure, nothing wrong with this info...it's cool how the OP set things up for his solution.
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#76err, or you could just upload index.html to any shared hosting in 5 minutes? The trouble of making a site (at least for people who can edit html directly, as in this example) is not about how to do it, but about high expectations and standards that we impose on ourselves... I'm guilty of this mysqlf, my site hasn't been updated in like 5 years, and I've built dozens of sites for others in that period...
> The trouble of making a site (at least for people who can edit html directly, as in this example) is not about how to do it, but about high expectations and standards that we impose on ourselves
I've found that it helps to start with the content first. Whenever I've tried to create a site where there was no content it felt really overwhelming since it's difficult to figure out how to present things nicely when you have no idea what you're trying to present! Of course, if it's your first personal site you very likely don't have much content for it, so it's a bit of a catch-22.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
The OP's one-hour recipe is strictly better for a pure static site, because it's substantially cheaper than shared hosting (which is $5/mo, github pages is free). Note that shared hosting provides persistent compute/store capability, which this project doesn't need.
> The OP's one-hour recipe is strictly better for a pure static site But it's still a lot worse than the simple web page builders (using a web-based UI) that have been around for 15 years or so. Why not just use about.me or some similar modern service?
Because we are software engineers and website designers and we can do better... (Please don't look at my website...)
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The OP's one-hour recipe is strictly better for a pure static site But it's still a lot worse than the simple web page builders (using a web-based UI) that have been around for 15 years or so. Why not just use about.me or some similar modern service?
Because we are software engineers and website designers and we can do better... (Please don't look at my website...)
Certainly we can do better, but 20 carefully researched one-liners aren't nearly as technologically advanced, elaborate and useful as a well-crafted, intuitive UI with a more maintainable end result.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're blaming the students. Is it a possibility that the fault lies with you?
Obviously the fault lies with me. The problem I'm having is exactly the question I opened with: where do you draw the line? How do you draw the line? At what point do you say "You know what, a beginner should know this"? Or whatever the specific level you decide to teach at. Personally I try to teach at levels above beginner. This only makes the line blurrier because there's no clear divide between someone who kinda…
"Explain How Everything in Computers Works. How Does a Source File Turn Into A Working App?" in under five minutes. How do you even begin answering a question like that?
You could try to be romantic and playful and say the love child created by a sexy, error-free relationship between source code and the compiler is an executable?
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#80I really like that idea and I understand that this is aimed specifically at the friend mentioned on the site so it takes their technical ability into account but I think for most people who are struggling with basic tasks like these instructions like > Create a directory to hold your website and cd into it. would already confuse them. Now that you already got that nice domain I think I'd be great to have a guide like…
I also built a tutorial around the same idea a few weeks ago, with a similar domain name, but aimed more at complete beginners than this site. My target audience would be graphic designers who want to get into web design, but don't have a clue where to start. I stopped after writing one article because I didn't get much interest, but then I didn't put much work into publicising it either. If people found it useful I'…
I am one of the worst people to give advice on "finishing" but you should definitely go on with this, it's a very good idea that can expand beyond your limited target audience (= just graphic designers). The web is full of "general" purpose tutorials for html, css, js, etc and this "general purpose" becomes "no purpose" in the end. If I am this random person that wants to learn how to make a website, I don't really care about learning all the details of the particular tools at this point, I care mostly about building what I want and "deploying". Then, maybe, I'd like to make it better, prettier, faster, etc etc. Your guide seems to attack this.