I used github to host my website but now, if i do not add github.io, my website name wont be displayed among the various website seaarch result, even after adding part of my website name.
Why is this?
If you want your website to be accessable from a search other than git hubs you need to...
purchase a domain, from a domain provider. Namecheap and GoDaddy our two examples of places that sell domains.
After that you need to use a hosting provider to host your code I recommend hostinger as they have easy-to-use git hub integration.
You will point the domain that you bought to hostinger and then people will be able to see your website if they go to the domain you bought.
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I'm new to coding, quite obviously. I created a web design using HTML in Adobe brackets. How do I create my own website from here? Like getting a domain or host. Not sure if those are even the right words to use
Welcome to the wonderful world of web development! Congrats on making your first HTML site.
I am not sure how much you know about the topic, so I will try to explain the basics of getting a site "online".
Websites essentially allow you to access other people's HTML documents in a file directory. You have probably noticed some URLs in the form "www.example.com/file.html". This means that to get your site online, you will need a computer to "host" your HTML files from. Since you probably don't want to leave your computer on 24/7, you will need to use a web hosting service. There are loads of web hosting companies that offer similar services, but they all have the same goal essentially - providing the means for people to remotely access your files. My hosting service of choice is Digital Ocean because they offer a decent price on a small web server. Through your web server (which is essentially a computer running Linux in a warehouse somewhere), you can install web server software (like Apache) which will allow you place your html files into a special directory which will can be accessed from a web browser (something like /var/www/html). Once your files are uploaded to your server, you can access your website through your server's IP address (some esoteric number in the form of http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
Of course, you don't access websites through an IP address (at least most humans don't). This is where a "domain name" comes in. The web provides a nifty feature (DNS) which allows you to map a domain name to an IP address. So you can go to your favorite domain purchasing website (something like GoDaddy, which you have probably heard of) and purchase an open domain name of choice. Once you purchase the domain (something like DragonFire09.com), you can map this domain name to your web server's IP address.
These are the two main steps to getting a site online! I hope this provides some insight. Note that getting a website online costs money because you need to pay for a hosting service and a domain, however its a great experience because along the way you will get your hands dirty with Linux and other parts of the web stack.
Of course, you can always create files locally and test them through your own web browser free of charge.
Good luck!
I have a website that runs in my college LAN and I want to add some revenue making ads. Its a website that offers downloads and tech blogs. However I have no interest of putting it up online and just host it locally. How do I do so?
What I have tried:
I have gone through different ad sites but I didnt get any proper results.
Do a google search for a free adsense clone script.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=free%20adsense%20clone
You can run the clone script and charge to run ads on it or ppc. As for other ad networks like adsense, I'm not sure they allow that type of advertising or not, so if it were me, I'd just grab a free script and run it that way or find an affiliate program that would allow LAN ads.
I am a web developer. I know how to build websites from scratch using html, css, javascript etc.. but I want to give WordPress a try.
Before I start, I need to know if I can build my website without owning a domain or not?
Thanks
Depends if you want your website to be online or offline.
If you want it to be offline, you won't need a domain or a webspace. Just install XAMPP or WAMP like Diego said.
If you want it to be online, your Wordpress files need to be uploaded on a webspace (you could also get free hosting on http://www.bplaced.net/?lang=en) and if you don't want an own domain, you could use the IP address to reach your website.
The best option is to use the XAMPP and forget everything that confuses you for now.
You can get the detailed information here at http://wordpress.org
No, you don't necessarily need a domain name to have a Wordpress site. Just go to http://www.wordpress.com and create a free account. You won't need any technical know-how for making and publishing the blog, it's all done for you automatically and you'll get your free sub-domain as [username].wordpress.com.
Okay, here's the situation. I've had a bluehost account for several years and am happy enough with it I'm unwilling to move without a really good reason. However, I'm finding more and more that the best solution to the main use for one of my domains is to have a fairly simple rails app running to cover that.
The rails app could easily be front-ended by two forms on the landing page, each with a couple of follow-up pages, but I want the URL always to show "mysite.com" rather than "myapp.heroku.com". I also want to continue to use my email addresses with this site. I don't expect the app to see heavy usage, and am unlikely to go over the 750 hr/mo free time on heroku.
I currently use Rails 3, and would likely have trouble stepping back to rails 2 in my thinking. I'm also not very good at programming in rails, or anything else for that matter, so I'd like not to confuse myself any more than necessary.
So what's my solution here? Transfer the whole domain to Heroku? Embed partials of the app in the landing page? Can I keep email addresses working with Heroku? Can I transfer just the www.mysite.com to heroku, but have everything else involved with the domain hit bluehost?
I'm open to advice.
Heroku doesn't provide any email hosting/sending itself - so you either bring your own or use one of the Heroku addons like SendGrid for sending mail from your application.
Of course, you can just leave you email etc with Bluehost provided that you can modify the DNS and change your www record to be a CNAME to proxy.heroku.com (after you've added the custom domain addon to your Heroku application)
I just did this with blue host and heroku where I hosted my app on heroku and wanted to keep email on blue host. I am using DNS Made easy so your mileage may vary but I had to create an A record pointing to the ip address 69.89.31.63, you name the A record mail.yourdomain.com
and then create an mx record pointing to 69.89.31.63. I am on the cedar stack.
I am developing a login and account system for use with an existing website, this will run on a subdomain under the main site url.
I would like to use a subdomain that is generic enough so it isn't tied to an account system but not off-putting to users.
I was thinking of www2 but I am concerned people will see this and think its not "legitimate".
Thanks
Some more context.
The new site is currently used for the login and account system but I will eventually migrate the whole website to the new system, this means the services and pages served by the subdomain will very a lot so it can't be specific to one thing.
Try something generic in the interest / knowledge domain of the existing website. What does the existing website do or provide? This can help you determine a proper subdomain.
Some generic examples:
info.domain.com
account.domain.com
auth.domain.com
app.domain.com
to.domain.com
Providing a better subdomain is going to require some more context.