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<title>penloy.xyz | Make A Website</title>
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<meta name="author" content="Penloy">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.min.css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="flex-container">
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<?php include '../sidebar.php';?>
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<div id="content">
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<main>
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<h1>Make a Website</h1>
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<h2>But why make a website?</h2>
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<p>
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As a general philosophy, I feel that if you can detach yourself from the modern capitalist paradigm
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that is Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, you should. Detaching yourself from these
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capitalist units not only frees yourself from needlessly participating in capitalism, to the
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detriment of those companies, but it allows you to learn new technologies and expand your skillset.
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Not only do you expand your own skillset, but you benefit the collective as well; people who want to
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communicate with you or know what you're doing have to detach themselves from those platforms for at
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least a small amount of time.
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<p>
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Instead of limiting yourself to Facebook/Twitter/online blog generators layout, you get to make your
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own layout: the only limit when making your own website is your knowledge. Why limit yourself to
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some other websites options? There really isn't a reason to except convenience, and in addition
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there are lots of cons to doing it that way:
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<ol>
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<li>You limit yourself to the customisation options of that platform.</li>
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<li>You are willingly handing over your data to that platform.</li>
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<li>You are relying on their protocols to be secure enough to keep your information secure.</li>
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<li>You are not learning anything new like you would if you made your own website.</li>
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</ol>
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<h2>But how do I make a website?</h2>
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You first need to learn HTML, which is quite simple. It's very intuitive. You have a range of
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headings (large to small), and paragraphs. You have the title which is what appears in the tab, and
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links. These are the basic building blocks of a website, and if you press F12 you can inspect the
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HTML of this website to see how it's built. There are many tutorials on how to use HTML and I'll
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link some at the bottom of this page. CSS is used to style your page, customise it's
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colors/widths/etc... Really you don't need much CSS, you can also view the styles of this page in
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F12. You can use javascript or php to make your website dynamic, but you don't have to.
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</p>
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<p>
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You have to buy a VPS (they're usually around 5 dollars per month), and you need to set up nginx or
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apache2 web server. You also need to buy a domain name at around 10 dollars per year and learn how
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to link the DNS. To achieve HTTPS status (more secure http), you have to install a program called
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letsencrypt on your VPS and run it. It's pretty simple to do. I will include links to tutorials for
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everything mentioned here at the bottom of this page.
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<li><a href="https://www.learn-html.org/">Here</a>, <a
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href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web">Here</a>,
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and <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML">Here</a> are some resources to
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help you learn HTML.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-css">Here</a>, <a
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href="https://css-tricks.com/">Here</a>, and <a
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href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS">Here</a> are some resources to
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help you learn CSS</li>
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<li>You can buy a VPS from <a href="https://www.linode.com/">Linode</a> or <a
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href="https://www.digitalocean.com/">DigitalOcean</a>. There are other VPS providers but
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these are really cheap and well known and popular (not sponsored)</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.namecheap.com/">Namecheap</a> are a pretty popular domain name provider,
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I've not tried many but people seem to like this one.</li>
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<li><a href="https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntufocal-apache">Certbot</a> will allow you to
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secure your website with letsencrypt https!</li>
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<li><a href="https://my.bluehost.com/hosting/help/what-are-dns-records">Learn DNS record
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meanings</a> in order to be fully familiar with the registration process of a website.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and make that website!
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</p>
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</main>
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</div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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