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Free website creation?

DrBadStrings said:
A beautiful free little code editor out now is Sublime Text editor it is wonderful for coding if you aren't color blind.
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The default text editor in Linux is the same, simply called Text Editor. Has quite a few useful tools built in too.

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Tired said:
Maybe you didn't understand my joke, or I don't understand you. What do "flavors" mean in linux?
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Oh yes misunderstanding there. By flavours I meant the variant of linux based operating system I was using. Ubuntu isn't a straight linux operating system, it's a subvariant based on Linux. But then even within the Ubuntu variant there are sub-variants to it, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, etc. So I thought when you asked about flavor I didn't get the joke, I thought it a literal question.
 
DrBadStrings said:
Oh yes misunderstanding there. By flavours I meant the variant of linux based operating system I was using. Ubuntu isn't a straight linux operating system, it's a subvariant based on Linux. But then even within the Ubuntu variant there are sub-variants to it, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, etc. So I thought when you asked about flavor I didn't get the joke, I thought it a literal question.
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aha okay, thanks for explaining :)
 
DrBadStrings said:
What flavor are you running? I've got a dual boot computer Win 11/Ubuntu with gnome.
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Ubuntu but with the Cinnamon desktop - same as Mint.

sudo apt-get install cinnamon

You can install as many desktops as you like and switch back and forth between them.
 
DrBadStrings said:
As someone that was first writing HTML back in the late 90's I can 100000000% say don't waste your time learning HTML or CSS. With where things are at currently, and where they are going unless you are a really avid tinkerer that wants to learn some history code there isn't much point in learning that code these days. PHP, SQL, Python scripting are all way more beneficial.
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saturnv said:
HTML and CSS are still used extensively by software developers making applications that run in web browsers. I agree that someone that just wants to make a web page can use tools that generate them without needing to know the foundation, but they are in no way obsolete.
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I'm not all in on webdev (different paths for the time being) but I always thought HTML and CSS were still in heavy use for frontend, while Python and JS (among others) were typically used on the backend. Am I wrong to assume this?
 
Tired said:
I don't know anything about websites, and how much it costs to create and just have one. I need the one made for my autistic friend, who would use it as a portfolio for his paintings, music and books he wants to sell. Of course we don't need anything ultra fancy looking.
Are there some easy to create and free websites there? I probably sound stupid with these questions, but it's ultra out of my league :oops:
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In addition to authoring the contents, you will need to address the question of hosting, as well, which involves renting or otherwise acquiring space on a computer connected to the Internet in order to serve the pages, and you also need to register a domain name so that the site can by found by name or URL.
 
FilterFreq said:
I'm not all in on webdev (different paths for the time being) but I always thought HTML and CSS were still in heavy use for frontend, while Python and JS (among others) were typically used on the backend. Am I wrong to assume this?
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That is correct. HTML is the markup language used to display things in a browser. CSS is a styling language for changing the style (look and some behavior) of the content. It is hard to make anything in a web browser without using them.

Even server side libraries that render web pages use HTML and CSS. Django (python web library), PHP, and others generally use templates in which code can be mixed into the HTML. Basically, you need to know HTML to fully understand what is happening under the hood if you are making a web page.
 
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