This is not "making a website". This is hosting a basic hmtl page online, where you don't write the html yourself.
Make This in an Hour
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#12I 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…
Can't you create and edit files directly on github.com? If so, this could be done without a CLI.
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#13This is not "making a website". This is hosting a basic hmtl page online, where you don't write the html yourself.
Pretty sure the title is make THIS website, not make A website.
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#14This is not "making a website". This is hosting a basic hmtl page online, where you don't write the html yourself.
It has a domain, it has content, it has more css than content though, but it isn't that heavy.
It is a website.
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#15git push origin gh-pages
or he'll still no see anything :P
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#16git push origin gh-pages or he'll still no see anything :P
GitHub pages can exist on the master branch also.
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#18Great article! What's the database backed dynamic website equivalent of this? For node? For python? For ruby? Building out your own deployment on AWS or linode is obnoxious. Heroku gets expensive fast.
Shared hosting make it simple. You can spin up a LAMP website on Dreamhost in an hour. The DB is basically just a few clicks with default values and dropdowns.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/uq6zOSv.jpg
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#19Please note that `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000` only works with python2.*.
Why not simply use file:///home/username/websitename/index.html ?
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#20Please note that `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000` only works with python2.*.
Why not simply use file:///home/username/websitename/index.html ?
i guess it wouldn't matter in this particular example, but some browsers apply different security restrictions to the file:// protocol than they do to http.