Comment by efilife

This is terrible for someone who doesn't know anything and wants to make a website (the people this article is directed to)

> Don’t shop around for a CMS. Don’t even design or outline your website. Don’t buy a domain or hosting yet. Don’t set up a GitHub repository; I don’t care how fast you can make one.

I wonder how a beginner is supposed to know what a CMS is, a domain/hosting or a GitHub repository. This is not explained at all.

> Finished? Great. If you have a domain and hosting, make a new folder on your server called blog and upload your first post in there

I don't, I am a beginner! I don't even know what this means! And even if I do have a server, how do I upload a file to it?

> 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.

Oh thanks. But it really isn't. On netlify for example you can just drag a folder that contains your website and it's up immediately. Similarly on neocities.

> If you have images or other media in your post, be sure to use the absolute URL to a resource rather than a relative one.

You should consider explaining what they are and how to use them.

This post is useless for "people [who] want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck"