You need a decated computer needed to be left of all time time a static IP address good upload speed and have to see up port forwarding on your router On Jun 23, 2015 10:58 AM, "Donna Goodin" <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.