Alwaysflooreds' website travails

I looked at Wordpress tonight;

The free site doesn’t give me the options I want and I’m not willing to pay a monthly subscription for the options I want. Tomorrow I will look at how to build my own site. I will check khanacadamy.org;
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/hour-of-code/hour-of-html
And freecodecamp.org;
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-html-and-html5
and Little Web Hut;
https://www.littlewebhut.com/
and Udemy is having a flash sale with courses starting at S14.00
https://www.udemy.com/topic/web-development/

This is a deep pool I’m diving into!

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Udemy seem to have plenty of good courses. They do sales quite often, so worth picking a few up when they are cheap.
I have a big pile of shame in there though, things like this help keep me motivated though!

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Try Ghost instead of Wordpress (unholy abomination).

This is just because of the pain that is the clusterfuck that is wordpress. Or make your own! It’s easy :slight_smile:

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Looked at Ghost, too expensive for me and I would need coding knowledge anyway so I will learn. It turns out that I have already been doing some practice with html5 on khanacademy and freecodecamp, but that was over a year ago…I forgot about that. I also bought 2 courses on Udemy;
Build Creative Website Using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery & Bootstrap
By Irfan Dayan
Build a real world responsive website with Html 5 css 3 & JS
By Adil Ahmed
I will start on these tomorrow.

May I suggest https://gohugo.io/?

It’s a static site generator written in Go - uses Markdown for content, HTML for templates, CSS for styling, and then a single static binary (built in Go) for managing it all!

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I will totally try that out, thanks! …learning something new every day. :slightly_smiling_face:

Today I briefly checked out @Tobbbles suggestion. It looks promising. Today I worked a 12 hour shift so am shutting down early [normally work 5-6 hours because bad knees].

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The previous 2 days I put in about .5 hours each reading various web pages. Today I decided I needed to actually do something, so went back to Khanacadamy and reviewed some html that I started 3 years ago. Ill post some code when I get to my computer.

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I’m very new to HTML and CSS, so I don’t know what I’m doing either, but I watched through these a while ago and they seems to have given me a decent place to start.

As far as I can tell his tutorials are very detailed and easy to understand.

Now I’m using various websites to recap.
@redgek pointed this one out, and it has been useful more then once.

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<head>

    <title>Challenge: Write a Poem</title>

    <meta charset="utf-8">

</head>

<body>
    <h1>Froggie</h1>
    <p>Froggie in the ditch<br>
    Froggie by the ditch<br>
    Froggie by the road<br>
    Froggie on the road<br>
    Froggie all OVER the road.</p>
    
</body>

Froggie

Froggie in the ditch
Froggie by the ditch
Froggie by the road
Froggie on the road
Froggie all OVER the road.

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https://blog.hartleybrody.com/static-site-s3/

bootstrap is your friend.

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^^^ thanks.

Today I spent an hour on freecodecamp working on their basic html5 course. I got up to “Basic HTML and HTML5: Nest an Anchor Element within a Paragraph”. I will carry on tomorrow.

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Another hour on freecodecamp. Made it to;

Basic HTML and HTML5: Use HTML5 to Require a Field

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I found a page showing my progress. It was almost exactly 3 years ago that I joined freecodecamp. Spent one day there and haven’t been back til yesterday.

Timeline
Challenge Completed
Add Placeholder Text To A Text Field December 10, 2018
Create A Text Field December 10, 2018
Create An Ordered List December 10, 2018
Create A Bulleted Unordered List December 10, 2018
Turn An Image Into A Link December 10, 2018
Make Dead Links Using the Hash Symbol December 10, 2018
Nest An Anchor Element Within A Paragraph December 10, 2018
Link To Internal Sections of A Page with Anchor Elements December 9, 2018
Link To External Pages with Anchor Elements December 9, 2018
Add Images To Your Website December 9, 2018
Introduction To Html5 Elements December 9, 2018
Use Css Selectors To Style Elements December 24, 2015
Change the Color of Text December 24, 2015
Delete Html Elements December 24, 2015
Fill In the Blank with Placeholder Text December 24, 2015
Comment Out Html December 24, 2015
Uncomment Html December 24, 2015
Inform with the Paragraph Element December 24, 2015
Headline with the H2 Element December 24, 2015
Say Hello To Html Elements December 24, 2015

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Tried to put in some time. After staring at the same page for 15 minutes and not comprehending a thing I decided to quit…There is always tomorrow.

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Crap. I did 6 lessons but they didn’t register because I signed in with the wrong email. DUH!
Until tomorrow when I get to redo my lessons…
ARGHH!
I finished the HTML portion and will start CSS after I redo my lessons.

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A long day again. Too tired to code.

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Finished the course…again…in html. Did a couple lessons on css and the site is malfunctioning.

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Time to debug

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