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Beginning Website Dev and Coding Advice Thread

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  • VGMoose VGMoose

    Hi! I've been making websites for a long time, too long really. It's great! If you want to start your own personal site, let's use this thread to give each other tips or support.

    I'll be checking in every day at least, so if you have a question, or need any tips, please feel free to ask!

    Initial starting resources:

    Development programs
    On PC: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
    In browser: https://vscode.dev

    Starter guide
    HTML: https://blog.hubspot.com/website/html

    Sites to host on:
    Github pages: https://pages.github.com

    If you've never ever made an HTML document ever, hubspot's guide looks pretty good. It goes over the basics of opening a file, editing, and previewing it. Once you have it looking how you want locally, hosting it is the next step.

    VSCode is a great starter IDE (or, text editor) that gets a lot of the basics right. Actually, I use VSCode for pretty much everything.

    lollapalooza
    lollapalooza
    lollapalooza
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    #5

    @VGMoose my browser is in my text editor
    your text editor is in your browser
    WE ARE NOT THE SAME

    lol

    '-'/
    free-palestine.carrd.co
    veteran member and moderator
    Ash Ketchum・1997-2023

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    • VGMoose VGMoose

      Personally, here's an example of one of those early sites I made way back in the day: https://backpack.vgmoose.com/2008/ . This uses pure HTML and iframes to display the different pages.

      I thought I was so cool... Nowadays, the best example of a site from scratch that I'm proud of is probably the homebrew appstore web frontend: https://apps.fortheusers.org . This is coded in React and Typescript, which is a lot more advanced, but really you're just (eventually) building off those same basic starting concepts ideas.

      lollapalooza
      lollapalooza
      lollapalooza
      wrote on last edited by
      #6

      @VGMoose also what is that GORGEOUS navbar font?
      sorry scattered thoughts lol

      '-'/
      free-palestine.carrd.co
      veteran member and moderator
      Ash Ketchum・1997-2023

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      • TeamSteam
        TeamSteam
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        Fans of Star Wars Lovers Of Latin Knights Of Tolkien pet lovers! #KeepBDNSSafe we read fanfic lol Nintendo Switch Users Marvel Fan (cool) 3ds Players Epic Gamers 55 switch players Lop Never Dies ♥BrowseDNS Children's Table★
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        #7

        Like what sites @lollapalooza?

        "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals" ~ Winston S. Churchill

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        • lollapalooza lollapalooza

          @VGMoose also what is that GORGEOUS navbar font?
          sorry scattered thoughts lol

          VGMoose
          VGMoose
          VGMoose
          Admin
          wrote on last edited by
          #8

          @lollapalooza it's https://www.1001fonts.com/gooddog-cool-font.html with the dots removed!

          I remember using it cause it looks like the Nintendogs font

          Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.

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          • TeamSteam TeamSteam

            Like what sites @lollapalooza?

            lollapalooza
            lollapalooza
            lollapalooza
            wrote on last edited by
            #9

            @TeamSteam sadgrl.online
            w3schools.com is a must
            internettingishard.com
            html-shark.com

            '-'/
            free-palestine.carrd.co
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            Ash Ketchum・1997-2023

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            • VGMoose
              VGMoose
              VGMoose
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              wrote on last edited by
              #10

              If you're in the @Coders group, there's now a Public Chat for discussing development and assistance!

              Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.

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              • VGMoose
                VGMoose
                VGMoose
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                #11

                I've made a beginning coding introduction tool at: https://github.com/vgmoose/GraphCoding#readme

                It puts the code you type into the URL, updates the canvas with whatever commands you use, and allows you to edit and share it via long base64 links, for example:

                GraphCoding - Visual JavaScript Learning

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                (vgmoose.dev)

                Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.

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                • VGMoose
                  VGMoose
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                  #12

                  The above will render the following graph and text on the canvas:
                  Screenshot 2023-11-15 at 4.29.31 PM.png

                  And this is the code it used (Javascript):

                  // set the font and draw these words
                  setFontSize(17);
                  drawText("hello", -5, 8);
                  drawText("these are some words", -4, 6);
                  drawText("neat", -3, 4);
                  
                  // set a variable
                  var bigText = "COOL!";
                  
                  // draw that variable twice near eachother
                  setFontSize(40);
                  setColor("blue");
                  drawText(bigText, -5, -1);
                  setColor("red");
                  drawText(bigText, -5.2, -1.2);
                  
                  // draw sine and cosine waves
                  setColor("green")
                  for (var x=xMin; x<xMax; x+=0.2)
                  {
                    setColor("green")
                    plot(x+1, Math.sin(x) - 5);
                    setColor("purple")
                    plot(x, Math.cos(x) - 5);
                  }
                  

                  Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.

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                    VGMoose
                    VGMoose
                    Admin
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #13

                    Bumping this thread! Anyone working on some interesting projects?

                    Also, we might add basic web hosting to BDNS, so each user can have their own profile page to edit and manage (similar to caard's).

                    Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.

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                    • VGMoose
                      VGMoose
                      VGMoose
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                      #14

                      Bumping it again!

                      If anyone wants access to our development server for basic file hosting, let me know as well, either in this thread or in a DM.

                      Sign the browser petition! Or visit my site at vgmoose.dev.

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