How to build your first website in six hours (with a hangover)

http://www.toddmgreen.com/2011/09/24/how-i-built-my-personal-website-in-six-hours-with-a-hangover/

by Scone • 15 years ago

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brackin• 15 years ago

Few things. Cool piece for something who's maybe a beginner but not totally sure for this audience. Also I don't know why this would take six hours? Maybe with the propagating which would mean it could take 24 hours.

Scone4• 15 years ago

@brackin Thanks for the comment. Both fair points. I submitted it because I thought it might be helpful for experienced people who keep getting asked for help. The six hours refers to my (fairly leisurely - read non-specialist) pace; I didn't factor in propagation because I was just counting the time taken by the creator.

[Edit: reposted so it's threaded with the original comment.]

philiphodgen• 15 years ago

@scone,

Having built a number of WordPress sites myself, I liked your write-up a lot. Very understandable for the beginner. My son (age 12) is about to build a website for his Boy Scout troop and your explanation of the steps will help a lot.

(Hangover optional for Boy Scouts, of course.)

Now. If only someone would write up a similarly-simple blog post about setting up a local development environment on a Mac, with brain-dead instructions on how to roll the finished website (and future updates) to the remote host (without brain damage) . . . .

(Let me just say I have wrestled with both MAMP and Bitnami and while they are pretty good, both inflict their own increment of brain damage.)

Scone4• 15 years ago

Thanks very much Philip - hope your son's website-building goes well, with or without a hangover!

tonilouc2• 15 years ago

thanks for the post, I had been doing the basic websites myself from the old form HTML, and this article helped me understand the Wordpress more. I just hope there's a multiple choice section where in you will just click and personalize the website without too much complication

Scone4• 15 years ago

No worries; thanks. There isn't a multiple-choice section for changing the look of the site, but the CSS code that determines the look is pretty clearly laid-out. I'd advise two things: 1) only change one thing at a time, and 2) before you begin, make a copy of the CSS file so you can always reset if you need to.

tonilouc2• 15 years ago

thanks for the tips, those were very helpful :)

How to build your first website in six hours (with a hangover)

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