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Re: Make This in an Hour

#41

Post by fndrplayer13 » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

I love how far the world has come over the past few decades. It is amazing how quickly you can get content up and online, and available to people.

Great post, I really think it highlights the power of technology and the appeal that it offers.

Re: Make This in an Hour

#42

Post by iheartramen » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:18 PM UTC

markvdb wrote: post #19

edem wrote: post #4

Please note that `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000` only works with python2.*.

Why not simply use file:///home/username/websitename/index.html ?

Hmm I guess I haven't done that in a really long time, but I remember years ago running into issues because local files wouldn't reload immediately when I made changes to them (cached?) and have avoided it since. Don't know if other people have ever run into this?

Re: Make This in an Hour

#43

Post by iheartramen » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:18 PM UTC

posnet wrote: post #6

edem wrote: post #4

Please note that `python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000` only works with python2.*.

Python 3 equivalent is: `python -m http.server 8000` In case anyone was interested.

Oops, fixed thank you!

Re: Make This in an Hour

#44

Post by iheartramen » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

Thanks for feedback everyone! This was obviously pretty rushed since I actually timed myself doing it, so feel free to submit a PR here: https://github.com/smilli/makethisinanhour.

Also update on the most important thing: My friend did end up making his website :)

Re: Make This in an Hour

#45

Post by iheartramen » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:25 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #33

butwhy wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well codecademy has a course to make the airbnb website. You code it yourself to be like airbnb, you don't just copy and paste their code.

I think the purpose of this website is a little bit personal to the developer, he is just showing his friends (and now other people) that getting a site up and running with a domain is an easy task. The site also doesn't say to copy paste the contents (read point 6 and 7) so your example is a bit strange. The site doesn't even mention to copy paste anything as far as I saw.

^^^exactly

Also she* :) (doesn't matter, but hopefully it won't be an automatic assumption eventually)

Re: Make This in an Hour

#46

Post by kyberias » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

fndrplayer13 wrote: post #41

I love how far the world has come over the past few decades. It is amazing how quickly you can get content up and online, and available to people. Great post, I really think it highlights the power of technology and the appeal that it offers.

To be fair, this didn't contain anything that wasn't possible in 10 or even 20 years ago in one hour. The only thing that wasn't so straightforward 20 years ago (1995) was finding hosting for your page.

Re: Make This in an Hour

#47

Post by lewisl9029 » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

piratebroadcast wrote: post #31

I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.

Azure App Service (formerly known as Azure Websites) is what I've been using for these types of small projects. It's completely free for up to 10 sites (using up to 5GB outbound bandwidth) and you can deploy by simply linking and pushing to a git repo.

Re: Make This in an Hour

#48

Post by javajosh » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

ivanhoe wrote: post #40

err, 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 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.

Re: Make This in an Hour

#49

Post by javajosh » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

What do you think about adding instructions on how to revert a published change to your site with git. The nice thing about git is that you can fix boo-boos. Also you might add a hosted analytics service to the HTML template. (The urge to know who's looking at your site is universal!)

Re: Make This in an Hour

#50

Post by javajosh » Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

What do you think about adding two things: how to revert a published change to your site! The nice thing about git is that you can fix boo-boos. The other would be to add a hosted analytics service to the HTML template. (The urge to know who's looking at your site is universal!)