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TheAutocorrectingCat
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How to Make a Website?

How do I make a website? Is that allowed? I’ve seen other people do it and add their Scratch projects to it.

Last edited by TheAutocorrectingCat (Jan. 10, 2025 02:03:13)

BigNate469
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How to Make a Website?

No, you're in the right place.

It really depends on what you want, but for just a basic website, you need a (preferably free) hosting service and an understanding of how to make a webpage (which varies across services, but eventually it all gets compiled down to HTML, CSS and JavaScript).

Something such as GitHub pages will allow you to write raw HTML, CSS, and JS, while something like Google Sites (provided you remove all references to your email address) gives you some design tools.
TheAutocorrectingCat
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How to Make a Website?

BigNate469 wrote:

No, you're in the right place.

It really depends on what you want, but for just a basic website, you need a (preferably free) hosting service and an understanding of how to make a webpage (which varies across services, but eventually it all gets compiled down to HTML, CSS and JavaScript).

Something such as GitHub pages will allow you to write raw HTML, CSS, and JS, while something like Google Sites (provided you remove all references to your email address) gives you some design tools.
Phew!
Are you able to name any free hosting services?
davidtheplatform
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How to Make a Website?

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

No, you're in the right place.

It really depends on what you want, but for just a basic website, you need a (preferably free) hosting service and an understanding of how to make a webpage (which varies across services, but eventually it all gets compiled down to HTML, CSS and JavaScript).

Something such as GitHub pages will allow you to write raw HTML, CSS, and JS, while something like Google Sites (provided you remove all references to your email address) gives you some design tools.
Phew!
Are you able to name any free hosting services?
  • Github pages is probably the most reliable one. I would use it unless you hate github/microsoft. Static hosting only
  • Cloudflare pages: basically the same as github pages but owned by cloudflare. Static hosting only
  • Vercel: Both dynamic and static hosting (eg. you can do backend stuff)
  • Pythonanywhere: Python hosting. If you use python I would recommend this
  • Glitch: Similar to pythonanywhere but supports more languages. Websites take a few seconds to turn on if they haven't been used in the past 5 minutes.
There are a few more but the filter won't let me name them.
TLDR:
Static hosting -> Github pages
Python backend -> pythonanywhere
Non-python backend -> glitch

Last edited by davidtheplatform (Jan. 10, 2025 05:15:15)

Dagriffpatchfan
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How to Make a Website?

davidtheplatform wrote:

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

No, you're in the right place.

It really depends on what you want, but for just a basic website, you need a (preferably free) hosting service and an understanding of how to make a webpage (which varies across services, but eventually it all gets compiled down to HTML, CSS and JavaScript).

Something such as GitHub pages will allow you to write raw HTML, CSS, and JS, while something like Google Sites (provided you remove all references to your email address) gives you some design tools.
Phew!
Are you able to name any free hosting services?
  • Github pages is probably the most reliable one. I would use it unless you hate github/microsoft. Static hosting only
  • Cloudflare pages: basically the same as github pages but owned by cloudflare. Static hosting only
  • Vercel: Both dynamic and static hosting (eg. you can do backend stuff)
  • Pythonanywhere: Python hosting. If you use python I would recommend this
  • Glitch: Similar to pythonanywhere but supports more languages. Websites take a few seconds to turn on if they haven't been used in the past 5 minutes.
There are a few more but the filter won't let me name them.
TLDR:
Static hosting -> Github pages
Python backend -> pythonanywhere
Non-python backend -> glitch
Infinity hosting lets you create a free Wordpress website and use the Wordpress plugins. Wordpress = websites for people who can’t code html, css, JavaScript, and php
josueart
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500+ posts

How to Make a Website?

If you're into blogging you could use Blogger.com and get a sweet <username>.blogspot.com URL.
scratchcode1_2_3
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1000+ posts

How to Make a Website?

Wow, that's nice!

I made https://greencuby.com by hosting it on github. Yes, the custom domain is paid, but you can still host them reliably with basically 0 downtime and super fast updating.

I can give you some tutorials I made, it was a series on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlJ599nZns4&list=PLu9kjbafHYiAiUdkpXUZ2Q9wTa0ceKIKa
Dagriffpatchfan
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How to Make a Website?

Thoughts on the provided options?
TheAutocorrectingCat
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1000+ posts

How to Make a Website?

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

Thoughts on the provided options?
I’m stupid and forgor how to code lol
I’m working on figuring out most of these.
Dagriffpatchfan
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1000+ posts

How to Make a Website?

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

Thoughts on the provided options?
I’m stupid and forgor how to code lol
I’m working on figuring out most of these.
So you’re using infinite free?
tUrtleBloxMC1
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How to Make a Website?

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

How do I make a website? Is that allowed? I’ve seen other people do it and add their Scratch projects to it.
to be honest i would just use Google Sites. doesn't allow much really advanced stuff, but very simple to use, and, as long as you're ok with your website beginning with
sites.google.com
then ur fine. its also easier to import pictures and stuff from Google Drive since it's integrated
Wolf_Link21
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How to Make a Website?

You probably want to add your projects as embedded too. you click the copy link button then copy the embedded iframe code and paste it into the html
scratchcode1_2_3
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How to Make a Website?

tUrtleBloxMC1 wrote:

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

How do I make a website? Is that allowed? I’ve seen other people do it and add their Scratch projects to it.
to be honest i would just use Google Sites. doesn't allow much really advanced stuff, but very simple to use, and, as long as you're ok with your website beginning with
sites.google.com
then ur fine. its also easier to import pictures and stuff from Google Drive since it's integrated
It's very simple at the cost of literally everything. It's very not customizavle, just make your own html and host it on github for free

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