Tag: website

How to make a website, part 1

I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s this thing called the internet that people these days tend to use a lot. As I’ve said before, it’s extremely important nowadays to now how to develop for the web.

So what better way to learn and practice web development skills, all while making a name for yourself on the world’s biggest platform, than to create a website?

This is the first in a series of tutorials where I’ll show you, step-by-step, how to build an awesome website from scratch.

Let’s go, yo.

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Why care about web development?

Say you want to write about how awesome your pet toaster is and publish it for everyone to see. Say you want to make an app where users can interact with their own virtual pet toasters. Say you want to start selling pet toasters online once you’ve convinced everyone how awesome they are.

In this case, I’d probably be a bit concerned about your sanity. But, more importantly, you’d want to learn some web development – that is, the art of creating web pages like the one you’re viewing right now.

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‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the life of a web developer.

You’d think that people would go on the internet with that shiny new phone/tablet/toaster they got for the holiday season.

Apparently, no one does that. Here’s a look at my latest hits (not the band type, I mean the number of visitors to hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
As the festive spirit goes up, visits to websites go down.

From what I’ve seen, this seems to be the case with pretty much every website and app: visits or downloads sharply decrease during holiday season. For what it’s worth, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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Usa ka pasiuna sa web development

HTML 5 logo on an iPhone smartphone with app icons around it in a cloud
Welcome sa mga web.

Balik sa akong adlaw (OK, sa atubangan sa akong adlaw), ang propesyon sa web developer usa ka ubos nga ang usa ka. Kini pwesto sa ubos itoy kaaway apan sa ibabaw Yankees fan sa scale sa propesyonal nga kadungganan. Tungod kay sa tanan nga mga tags ug sa transparency spacer mga larawan nga atong gigamit, kami nakita nga krudo hackers nga walay pagbati sa aesthetics.

Maayo, kita pa nga kulang sa aesthetic nga diwa, apan ingon nga ang mga Web og sa ingon ang propesyon sa web developer. Kini nga mga mga adlaw adunay mga dili maihap nga mga himan nga atong magamit sa paghimo sa maayo-nga gisulat, mga sumbanan-pagpahiuyon, ug matahum (OK, tingali nga sa milabay nga usa ka) web pages. Kadaghanan sa mga dako nga website nga imong paggamit sa karon (walay ulaw sampong: lakip na niini nga usa ka) gitukod sa paggamit niini nga mga himan nga.

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