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.

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 developmentthat is, the art of creating web pages like the one you’re viewing right now.

‘Tis the seasonto 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.

Ib tug qhia txog kev loj hlob mus rau qhov web

HTML 5 logo on an iPhone smartphone with app icons around it in a cloud
Txais tos kom tus web.

Rov qab nyob rau hauv kuv hnub (OK, ua ntej kuv hnub), lub txoj hauj lwm ntawm web tsim yog ib tug tsawg ib. Nws kab sab hauv qab no tus aub hater tiam sis saum toj no Yankees kiv cua rau lub scale ntawm kws Honor. Vim hais tias ntawm tag nrho cov cim npe thiab transparency LUB TOG RAJ dluab peb siv, peb twb pom li nyoos hackers uas tsis muaj kev nkag siab ntawm aesthetics.

Zoo, tej zaum peb yuav tseem yuav tu ncua nyob rau hauv zoo nkauj siab, tab sis raws li lub Web tau tsim thiaj li muaj txoj hauj lwm ntawm web tsim. Hnub no yeej muaj ntau ntau cov cuab yeej peb yuav siv kom zoo-sau, cov qauv-conforming, thiab zoo nkauj (OK, tej zaum tsis hais tias lub xeem ib tug) web pages. Feem ntau ntawm cov kuj zoo kawg thiab cov websites uas koj siv hnub no (tsis paub txaj muag plug: xws li no ib) yog tsa lub Koom Txoos uas siv cov cuab yeej.