Publishing Your Webpage to the Internet | Online
About this workshop
In today's internet age, there are a TON of great free services that make hosting web pages online easy and free. In this course, we will cover a variety of ways we can leverage these free services to push our websites to the internet. We will talk about the services that are available and practice pushing a website to each one of these services.
Takeaways
- Learn how to deploy a webpage to GitHub Pages (and the pros/cons)
- Learn how to deploy a webpage to Heroku (and the pros/cons)
- Learn how to deploy a webpage to OpenShift (and the pros/cons)
- Learn how to purchase and forward domain names
- Learn the command line tools necessary to push to heroku and openshift and gh-pages
- Learn how to create free accounts for heroku and openshift
- Learn capabilities for each service and when to push to gh-pages vs heroky vs openshift
- Learn how to buy domain names and how to forward to heroku vs openshift vs gh-pages
Prereqs & Preparation
- Laptop computer (with terminal access)
- Basic understanding of terminal commands
- Understanding of web development and how to build websites
