Comment by jeena
1 day ago
I never thought that the writing HTML is the hard part. Instead where my Sister struggled was to get a domain, get a server, deal with DNS pointing to that server. That shit is also omitted on posts like that one because it's done differently for each domain registrar and you need quite some knowledge in network stuff to be able to understand what you need to do.
Yup. Though I recently learned you can manually upload a local folder (with an index.html etc) to cloudflare pages. They will of course sell you a domain too.
I did not expect how bad this was handled in the article:
> It’s easy to forget how simple a website can be. > ... > If you don’t have a domain or hosting yet, now’s the time to buckle down and do that. Unfortunately, I don’t have good advice for you here. Just know that it’s going to be stupid and tedious and bad and unfun. That’s just the way this is.
Yup, it blatantly left out the hard part, and at the same time contradicted the initial claim almost literally.
Kinda reminds me of reading a dozen articles that went, "Learning how to typeset a document with LaTeX. This article assumes that you have LaTeX installed already." ages ago.
Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?
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> Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?
The point of those articles is how to make a website or typeset a LaTeX document. If you read one and find out you don't have a prerequisite, go google for an article on how to get a domain name or install LaTeX --- there is plenty of those too.
I found it odd they specifically said not to make a git repo for the page, GitHub is one of the easiest ways I know to publish a website. It just can't be commercial etc
This is an example where LLM's really can help. I just went through that process myself for the first time and got that help.
It's an example where it can't really help unless you already have some idea what you've got to do. LLM will spit out everything from CPanel instructions to port forwarding when in the end the best way for a non-tech person would be to just dump the files on Neocities.