A friend of mine asked me, how to create a website. For some, this question would sound really childish, but for the majority, I believe it's a mystery how to make a website? Working with CSS, not even speaking of PHP.
Many enthusiasts end using some WordPress CMS and apply its variety of themes and plugins. Many end with nothing
I remember what was the start for me - I wanted to create a website but didn't know-how. It was around 2002. WordPress was not in town yet. It took me like one year when I discovered Microsoft FrontPage, I even bought a book - Microsoft FrontPage for Dummies, or similar. That book was a relief for me, I learned basic HTML, get to know what is FTP. And then I get another problem - hosting. The ways I tried to figure how to upload my precious FrontPage generated content to the public_html folder on some cheap hosting.
After all, I finished, that no hosting was good for me, and started to learn Linux, and configured my own box, running Apache, using Bind - put it under my mom's desk, and told her, not to shut down it :)
Many years have passedn, since then, but the question seems to stay: How to create a webpage?
In brief:
- Learn HTML
- Learn CSS
- Find a reliable hosting
- Be ready to master new things slowly
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