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Publish

  • Up to this point, everything we created was stored locally. But now it's time the world sees our work!
  • Firsts things first: We need somebody who will host our website
  • There are a lot of possibilites. Two examples are:
    • Neocities, just upload all your code like HTML, CSS or any other language and it's online
    • WordPress.com, popular software especially for blogs. You can do a lot things with little effort and no knowledge of HTML, but creative freedom is restricted and the platform is financed through advertisements.

Neocities

  • Go to https://neocities.org and create an account
  • Upload your files
  • Go to http://nutzername.neocities.org/webseite.html - look, it's your website!
  • Send the link to your friends
  • To update your neocities website, use the built-in editor oder upload the updated file

WordPress.com

  • Focus on blogs but the CMS is flexible and also suitable for hosting other sorts of websites
  • based on the WordPress Software, which you can install on your own server
  • You don't need HTML / CSS know-how
  • Lots of ready-made templates
  • Certain creative restrictions: Does not accept user written HTML or CSS in the free version
  • financed with advertisements (at least it seems to be discret with that)
  • Has a lot of functions, some say: Too much

Tumblr

  • Focus on minimal micro blogs
  • Accepts your own HTML & CSS for templates. You don't have to build a new one from scratch. Instead you can choose an existing one and adapt it.
  • Can also be used for static pages. However not for single posts.

Communication

So, now we have learned a great deal about HTML and CSS: What the code acutally does, how to write it and finally where to host our creations. There is one thing we haven't talked about so far: Communication. The use of HTML & CSS enables you to publish but not to communicate with your readers. What do we do to change that?

Out there in the endless depths of the web exist a lot of different alternatives:

  • Disqus, a forum. It works well, but advertisment display is possible
  • Muut, forum
  • Google Forms, forms e.g for surveys. Can also be used for non-public inquiries.
  • Email, an evergreen
  • Facebook Pages, wide range, very easy to reach people and you can combine it with blog posts, links etc. But it exlcudes everybody who does not have a facebook account and you influence on design
  • Most blog platforms like wordpress or blogspot offer a built-in comment function which you can moderate and publish.
  • Other ideas?