Difference between revisions of "How to make a website"
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| − | Making a website can be very simple, or it can be very complicated. | + | Making a website can be very simple, or it can be very complicated. One should start with something simple and work up to complicated, but most of us start with something overly complicated because we are unaware of all the possibilities. |
==Developer-hosted versus user-installed== | ==Developer-hosted versus user-installed== | ||
| − | The simplest way to make a website is to sign up for a free [[blog]] on a [[developer-hosted platform]]. The website software is operated by the developer for the benefit of the blog authors. It is very easy to create your own personal blog using a default format. | + | The simplest way to make a website is to sign up for a free [[blog]] on a [[developer-hosted platform]]. The website software is operated by the developer for the benefit of the blog authors. It is very easy to create your own personal blog using a default format. If you want to configure your blog to a personal format, most of these platforms will let you do so, but you will generally have to know [[HyperText Markup Language|HTML]] and [[CSS]]. So this "simple" solution can rapidly become quite complicated. |
| − | It is somewhat more difficult, but more | + | It is somewhat more difficult, but much more rewarding, to learn to install your own websites. This requires using a [[web hosting service]]. |
(To be continued) | (To be continued) | ||
