| Let me first say that I appreciate anyone making an effort to help a friend with modern technologies. However, I can't help noticing that when I first used a home ISP, you got some web space thrown as part of the deal, and setting up a first web site would have required only this: 1. Write the index.html file. 2. Upload it to your ISP-provided server by FTP. 3. There is no step 3. This was 15-20 years ago and pretty much universally available free of charge with any residential ISP here in the UK. The most complicated thing would have been getting your own domain name, because that would have required a few more button clicks and a small payment. Sadly, the centralised "build my web site" sites and social networks seem to have taken over, and looking around it seems like today most ISPs no longer offer basic shared web hosting for free as a routine part of their plans. So today, per this article, getting your own site on-line might need all of this: 1. Know the most complicated VCS in history. 2. Be comfortable with CLI use. 3. Have Python installed, just to run a local web server for testing. 4. Depend on a third party (GitHub) and all that comes with that (I wonder how many people who advocate GH all the time have actually read what they're signing up for). 5. Know how to order a domain name from a separate registrar and then how to hook it up to the aforementioned third party. Any one of those things will probably be a huge barrier and a cause of repeated failures and frustrations for anyone who is interested in this kind of help in the first place. Again, I appreciate the effort to help a friend navigate these waters for the first time, but in general I'm not sure this constitutes progress. |