Hey guys-
so I just finished the “product landing page” or more specifically barely satisfied the requirements and decided I needed to get real lol. So I popped out the example into its own window and inspect element and had a Ureka moment in a way. I was able to split things up and see how they work like never before. this had me into “inspect element” tutorial videos which I hav enot found a good one yet. but more to the question…this particul guy was talking about setting up an FTP account? and “Divi”? host page?
What exactly do you guys do as web developers? you have your own webpage? you have a particular program you you work in? this guy is talking about snipping CSS code and saving it to use later. I want to go to the next level-having my own webpage to play with and a way to play with others? whats the next step with this stuff? I hope my question is making sense.
Not 100% sure what the actual question is. However, there is a lot more of the curriculum to go through even after your last project. If you want to make your own website you will need to host it somewhere so you can google free hosting sites as there are quite a few like vercel for instance. I am not sure what you mean by “play with others” but your next step is to keep going through the curriculum.
You can use visual studio to write your code in to host on your website.
what is an FTP account? this is a network protocol for transferring changes you make on a website?
from, say, visual studio, to your actual website?
It can be rather complicated at this point of where you are at. You can do some more googling on the subject, but at this point, it’s not super important. Basically, you can transfer files from your local workstation to a server, but chances are you are not running your own server.
Hosting sites like Vercel use your github. So, for example, let’s say you are coding in Visual Studio in your HTML file and you make a change. When you make a change, you will “push” your new change to your GitHub. Since Vercel is using your GitHub, it will already have the new code you added to your GitHub repository, and you may just have to redeploy the site which is pretty simple. That’s all you really have to worry about to get your own site up and running. Again, Vercel is not the only hosting site out there, but it’s just what I used to use a while back and the only thing that comes to mind off the top of my head.
Don’t use FTP unless it is your last option on earth. As said, use a Git/GitHub workflow and a host that supports CI/CD (like Netlify, Vercel, and many others). You make code changes locally and commit, then push the code at which point an automatic build and deployment happens.
Divi is a WordPress theme/page builder so maybe that is what they were talking about. I would stay away from learning from people that push such things. Sure, it can be handy in a pinch or if you want no-code development but for learning actual web development it isn’t the right place to look.
Netlify, Vercel, and Surge.sh are all good options for free hosting, you can also use GitHub pages.
The only CSS snippet I have is in VS Code for some standard starting CSS. You can use a VS Code extension to create code snippets. I wouldn’t suggest hoarding code snippets they are rarely useful. You will remember how to do it or you will look it up.
im getting there. version control,right?. But not yet lol. Yes I have come back after a little break to other subjects and started the dragon game.
“play with others” -pull code from a website i like, see the layout and how things work. change it, play with it.
Please can you guys help me know what wrong with this.
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cody do you use VSCode? sublime, Vim? I was taking “text editors” course on a site called learnenough.com, but it was hard and I really did not like VScode too much.
I use vs code for work, but when I was working on my own projects before I got my job I used sublime. I would recommend vs code over sublime now, but if you like sublime or another over vs code then I say go for it.
I really don’t know enough to have any preference at all. But initial impression , I dont understand it seems VScode,Sublime,etc, does so much more then Vim, but wherever I turn “use vim! use vim! use vim! take the time to learn vim”.
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