Don’t have your own website? Here’s how you can set one up in 1 hour at a low to no cost!
There is always the first time. Your first language. Your first script. Your first website.
Not only developers can own websites. With the right knowledge, anyone can do it!
So…how exactly does one get started?
In today’s ecosystem of tools and services, bringing up your own website that is uniquely yours, is no longer an insurmountable task as it was decades ago. You do not need to have your own server rack (or laptop) running persistently in the corner of your room to host your own website/online portfolio.
In fact, it can be quite easy to bring up a site, with or without your own custom domain, supported with HTTPS on the get-go. All this can be done within an hour, as I will demonstrate in the following steps.
There are a multitude of free and popular hosting tools for static websites — Google Cloud, Heroku — just to name a few. In the following steps, I will demonstrate with GitHub, using GitHub Pages, on getting your first site up.
Step 1: Choose your environment
Est Time: N/A, Difficulty: Low, Cost: $0
While it is possible to use pure HTML files for your site and get away with it, I…
