Website development

Laurent Mundell · 2016-11-09T18:04:38

Hello gamedevs, I've just finished a breaking point for me to start a new smaller project. I will be building a website/webpage. I have no idea where to start or what to learn but through will power and a lot of drawing and planning I will prevail. So how do I make websites/webpages?

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Started by LAURENT* November 01, 2016 03:00 PM

25 comments, last by ArunHaridas 8 years ago

VildNinja

789

November 02, 2016 12:49 AM

The OP said he wants to put up a simple site for his game project, dedicating months or years to learning to make websites well is the wrong path. You have to learn html5, css3, browser quirks and oddities, javascript and jquery, bootstrap, and more if you want it done good.

Sorry, I didn't quite understand OP's intentions then. I thought he wanted to learn web development (I don't see any mentions of hosting a game site). But yes if the goal is simply to setup a site asap, then most popular webhosts have a drag and drop interface, either for wordpress or their custom tools.

And yes it takes years to become an expert, but that is not required for most (non professional) projects, where you just want to tweak a bootstrap template, or want to know what's going on under the hood in a wordpress blog.

http://VildNinja.dk

Alpha_ProgDes

6,963

November 02, 2016 01:24 AM

No special goal. I just want to create the site to learn how to create web sites. It would go like this. Some random person would type in "Laurentstar.com" into their url and it would take them to my site which displays a graphic. That's all it would do.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <img alt="" src="http://http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5300000/New-Super-Mario-Brothers-Wallpaper-super-mario-bros-5314181-1280-1024.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

Here's a starting point.

If you're on Windows, then go here: https://www.visualstudio.com/post-download-vs/?sku=community&clcid=0x409&downloadrename=true#

Install it, google some tutorials or go on microsoft's site and do their tutorials on to do web dev.

There's no need for anyone of us to really hand-hold through anymore steps at this point. We've given you all you need to get started. And there's enough info on the web to get you up and running.

If you have some development questions though, feel free to ask. :)

Beginner in Game Development? Read here. And read here.

fleabay

1,327

November 02, 2016 01:33 AM

This video (last years version) really helped me understand most of the options when starting web development.

ED: After watching the new version, I say that installing Vagrant was the main thing that got me up and running with a easy sandbox type (quickly configured virtual machine) development environment. Docker runs fine in Vagrant. He recommends skipping Vagrant and just use Docker but that is totally wrong IMO.

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂<←The tone posse, ready for action.

Kylotan

10,513

November 02, 2016 10:30 AM

You don't need Vagrant or Docker, or any other virtualisation or container technology. They're tools for professionals who are expecting to deploy complete technology stacks to a certain type of remote provider. For the OP to start on web development they can just start by saving a HTML file on their hard disk and opening it in a browser. They don't need anything else. Then they can add in CSS. And maybe Javascript. Then maybe use a custom server for server-side code. Etc etc.

Buster2000

4,310

November 02, 2016 11:13 AM

You don't need Vagrant or Docker, or any other virtualisation or container technology. They're tools for professionals who are expecting to deploy complete technology stacks to a certain type of remote provider. For the OP to start on web development they can just start by saving a HTML file on their hard disk and opening it in a browser. They don't need anything else. Then they can add in CSS. And maybe Javascript. Then maybe use a custom server for server-side code. Etc etc.

This is the way to go. And if you want to party like we did back in 1996 then you can give this a go:

https://neocities.org

Norman Barrows

7,180

November 03, 2016 12:58 PM

MS FrontPage is how i solved this problem back in the day. WYSIWYG drag and drop web page development with no coding. But i did learn to code forms and PHP scripts to make my own shopping cart software. Nowadays, most webhosts include browser based website building software similar to frontpage.

my webhost of choice:

mewebhost.com

back in the day i used rackspace.com for high bandwidth file hosting (the demo for Caveman 1.0 back in 2000 was a 50 meg DL). Now i just use a free dropbox account.

Norm Barrows

Rockland Software Productions

"Building PC games since 1989"

rocklandsoftware.net

PLAY CAVEMAN NOW!

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