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06-26-2013 , 05:45 PM

#9176

Urinal Mint

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So I'm looking to make a personal website, and would like to ask about what technologies I should look into.

Basically just a site for personal marketing, will have a few pages for about me, resume, etc. and later would like to add a blog.

Would like to learn about web dev. in the process, but am not looking to make it from scratch.

What technologies would you recommend I look into? Currently I know next to nothing about web dev.

FWIW have already purchased a domain & hosting from Go Daddy.

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06-26-2013 , 05:59 PM

#9177

splashpot

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I would have advised you to not buy hosting at all, and certainly not until you have a site already built and ready to deploy. If you're only going to get a handful of visitors, as you would with a portfolio/resume page, there are places where you can host for free like Heroku. You can host static sites on Github pages for free (that's where I have my portfolio page) and I think they support blog functionality. But if you're doing this to learn how to develop dynamic sites, that's probably not a good option. If your goal is to learn web dev, you want ruby/rails, python/django, php/cakephp, etc.

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06-26-2013 , 08:29 PM

#9178

gwp

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Originally Posted by Urinal Mint

FWIW have already purchased a domain & hosting from Go Daddy.

You should have asked your question before doing this.

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06-26-2013 , 08:45 PM

#9179

Ryanb9

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Back in ... '03? I cracked a trial version of flash (dont think they called it cs at the time) with a dl'ed keygen and did some animations for school or w/e. It was eZ. Now I have the urge to learn actionscript but after 5 min of googleing it looks like its not as easy as it used to be to get ahold of a free version of flash.

All I want to do is use the program to learn the language (in the same way that I used VS express 2005 to learn C++). I dont want to use it to make some something or use it to make money or anything. What should I do?

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06-26-2013 , 08:48 PM

#9180

tyler_cracker

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move up to where they respect your software piracy

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06-26-2013 , 08:56 PM

#9181

Ryanb9

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was thinking about sending them an email and just asking for a copy for 2-3 months

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06-26-2013 , 09:24 PM

#9182

Grue

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can you still get cs3 for free? try that.

also actionscript is basically javascript so yeah.

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06-27-2013 , 02:20 AM

#9183

_dave_

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isn't flash+actionscript basically dead at his time?

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06-27-2013 , 08:11 AM

#9184

Gullanian

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Yep. 100% not the direction the web is going, so any energies you spent learning it would probably be better spent elsewhere

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06-27-2013 , 09:59 AM

#9185

Nchabazam

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Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

i'd imagine you can cut a lot out of your foundation file by only including features you need. foundation has a customization page on their site where you can do this by checking and unchecking checkboxes -- it'll generate the minimum needed file for you. if you are not using the js widgets, especially, that should cut your size down.

Good call. I spent like 20 minutes derping around until I realized I was on the foundation 3 customize screen, instead of foundation 4 (which the foundation gem for rails was using).

Now my compressed stylesheet is like 30kb.

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06-27-2013 , 04:34 PM

#9186

Urinal Mint

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Originally Posted by gwp

You should have asked your question before doing this.

Yeah. Are you saying there is a free option available for hosting a site at a custom domain with multiple pages?

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06-27-2013 , 04:36 PM

#9187

gaming_mouse

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if they are static pages, github pages is a great option and free

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06-27-2013 , 05:35 PM

#9188

MrWooster

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Originally Posted by Urinal Mint

Yeah. Are you saying there is a free option available for hosting a site at a custom domain with multiple pages?

Not for a custom domain, but free hosting is fairly readily available. Also, GoDaddy is notorious for being an awful company to deal with, and many people wont use their services on principle. Do a google for 'godaddy horror stories'.

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06-27-2013 , 05:41 PM

#9189

splashpot

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Originally Posted by MrWooster

Yes for custom domain. My github pages site has a custom domain. Heroku has an addon that allows custom domains if you have fewer than 50,000 queries per month.

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06-27-2013 , 06:22 PM

#9190

MrWooster

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But you still need to buy it.....

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06-27-2013 , 06:31 PM

#9191

daveT

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I pay namecheap $10 a year and point my domain to heroku. The sites are fast as long as the free dyno isn't sleeping. Seriously considering moving over to AWS though.

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06-27-2013 , 06:32 PM

#9192

daveT

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Originally Posted by MrWooster

But you still need to buy it.....

Probably using mysite.heroku or something.

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06-27-2013 , 06:44 PM

#9193

splashpot

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Oh you have to pay for the domain. But the hosting using your custom domain can be free.

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06-27-2013 , 07:34 PM

#9194

Urinal Mint

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Originally Posted by MrWooster

Also, GoDaddy is notorious for being an awful company to deal with, and many people wont use their services on principle. Do a google for 'godaddy horror stories'.

Googled that, yea definitely not ideal. They claim to have good customer service on their website, but obv. can't trust their site for unbiased info.

I think I'll use Wordpress to get the site and the first few pages up and running. Looks like it's beginner-friendly. Anyone have experience using / customizing it?

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06-27-2013 , 07:37 PM

#9195

PJo336

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Just got an offer for my first full time programming gig, whoop whoop.

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06-27-2013 , 07:41 PM

#9196

gwp

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Originally Posted by Urinal Mint

Yeah. Are you saying there is a free option available for hosting a site at a custom domain with multiple pages?

A good rule of thumb is don't get your domains where you get your hosting.

Another good rule of thumb is don't get anything from godaddy, (see earlier post).

I'm not sure if you can get free hosting, but for a few bucks a month you'll get more than enough for what you described.

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06-27-2013 , 08:24 PM

#9197

Shoe Lace

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Originally Posted by daveT

I pay namecheap $10 a year and point my domain to heroku. The sites are fast as long as the free dyno isn't sleeping. Seriously considering moving over to AWS though.

Can't you just make a request to your server every few minutes or however long the time out is before it sleeps? You could setup something automated to do this.

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06-27-2013 , 09:28 PM

#9198

Baltimore Jones

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Originally Posted by PJo336

Just got an offer for my first full time programming gig, whoop whoop.

Interesting story on how you got there or just a standard path?

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06-27-2013 , 11:33 PM

#9199

PJo336

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Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones

Interesting story on how you got there or just a standard path?

Nothing inherently interesting, similar story to goblue. Masters at depaul with no prior experience, found this job through a career fair and did alright on a brutal 4 hour interview.

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06-28-2013 , 02:30 AM

#9200

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by Shoe Lace

Can't you just make a request to your server every few minutes or however long the time out is before it sleeps? You could setup something automated to do this.

Yup, I've done this for a few sites that we don't want to be slow but have little traffic. We use ping doom so I did it through that but there have to be a bunch of different options here.

Edit: Pingdom, but ping doom sounds awesome.