Hi all, I know this is way off topic, but this thread touched on something I've been thinking about for a while. How would I go about being my own host? My sites are currently hosted with a group called A2 Hosting, but I've been wondering about hosting them myself. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:12 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > First you can play with HTML without buying anything. You can put text edit > in "plain text" mode and start writing your first html file. Then load that > in Safari to check your work. You'll just flip back and forth adding stuff > and reviewing. Once you've got the hang of HTML then I'd start thinking about > hosting and setting up a domain name. So in text edit, before you create a > new file go to preferences and set the format radio button to Plain text. > Name your file something ending in either .htm or .html such as > MyFirstWebPage.html and then you can start putting html in there. Once you > have saved that file somewhere you can open MyFirstWebPage.html in Safari to > review the results. > > There are piles of free tutorials out there so just google around. Web pages > are generally three general buckets. HTML is the content with markup > sprinkled around to tell what the content is such as a paragraph, list or > table. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets where you can make, for example, all the > headings a certain font or add margin to paragraphs. The last most complex > bit is javascript which is code that can manipulate the content or the > styles, usually in reaction to user events such as mouse clicks or keystrokes. > > CB > > On 6/22/15 6:29 PM, Nancy Badger wrote: >> Hi, >> I am thinking of building a very simple website. I have never done this >> before. I have no idea how or where to start. I know I need to get a >> domain name. How do I do this? Is there an accessible program to use one >> building a website are there tutorials? Thanks for any help you can provide. >> Nancy >> >> Nancy Badger, Ph.D >> Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services >> UT Chattanooga >> Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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