How do I make a site?

[Princ3ss-Baby-Bear]

Okay so hear me out a second this forum is amazing for Ddlg and being SFW and I use fetlife for the other lifestyles and NSFW but now they’re causing a lot of females to feel unsafe as allowing us to be attacked and letting a very horrible group exist in there.

so I want to know how do I go about creating and coding a social media or forum like website as everyone keeps going on about needing a new one but nobody has actually built one and I have an unholy amount of free time being disabled so might as well put it to good use I suppose.

 

is there a certain type of app or website design program or what? How do I go about it any information would be amazing! And preferably free would be great to start off with to see if I can make it function before looking at expanding it to a paid version etc 

[LeftyGuitar]

There are sites or places that can help you make a website. If you want to learn how to make websites and learn from scratch, you can learn HTML, PHP, Javascript, etc.

W3Schools is a great resource for learning how to code Websites and coding general. I strongly recommend taking it one thing at a time, learning it all at once will be overwhelming.

If you don't want to do it from scratch there are services that can make a site for you.

 

https://www.w3schools.com/ - SFW

[Princ3ss-Baby-Bear]

26 minutes ago, LeftyGuitar said:

There are sites or places that can help you make a website. If you want to learn how to make websites and learn from scratch, you can learn HTML, PHP, Javascript, etc.

W3Schools is a great resource for learning how to code Websites and coding general. I strongly recommend taking it one thing at a time, learning it all at once will be overwhelming.

If you don't want to do it from scratch there are services that can make a site for you.

 

https://www.w3schools.com/ - SFW

Brilliant! Thank you ☺️ 

[shadowrider]

 I agree with Lefty. I started learning HTML and CSS a little while back and used a couple classes from the school he referenced. I also found some free books I downloaded that helped. I created a couple pages before life got in the way and I found myself back to programming machines instead of web pages.

 Just read all the fine print carefully. "Free" places will let you design your site for free. Once you want to take it online you will have to pay. You will need hosting and that's not free. If you can't do everything yourself as far as upkeep and troubleshooting you will need someone that knows the ins and outs, that generally isn't free unless you know someone. 

A basic site you can build yourself, and it can be fun and feels good. I've done a couple over the years using those sites that give you the tools and they're cheap enough and do ok for a small business or hobby. I never needed a large scale site that would get the hits like fet or fb.

You can look into forum providers like IPS. They will get you up and going with a solid forum setup but it isn't free and you'll want to add plenty of aftermarket things to it to get the product you want. 

I'm curious now to know what fet pays every year with the footprint they have. 

We have a couple members here that know about building and maintaining webservers and sites. Hopefully they will chime in and offer some more advice. 

[Princ3ss-Baby-Bear]

7 hours ago, shadowrider said:

 I agree with Lefty. I started learning HTML and CSS a little while back and used a couple classes from the school he referenced. I also found some free books I downloaded that helped. I created a couple pages before life got in the way and I found myself back to programming machines instead of web pages.

 Just read all the fine print carefully. "Free" places will let you design your site for free. Once you want to take it online you will have to pay. You will need hosting and that's not free. If you can't do everything yourself as far as upkeep and troubleshooting you will need someone that knows the ins and outs, that generally isn't free unless you know someone. 

A basic site you can build yourself, and it can be fun and feels good. I've done a couple over the years using those sites that give you the tools and they're cheap enough and do ok for a small business or hobby. I never needed a large scale site that would get the hits like fet or fb.

You can look into forum providers like IPS. They will get you up and going with a solid forum setup but it isn't free and you'll want to add plenty of aftermarket things to it to get the product you want. 

I'm curious now to know what fet pays every year with the footprint they have. 

We have a couple members here that know about building and maintaining webservers and sites. Hopefully they will chime in and offer some more advice. 

Brilliant thank you ☺️ and god I’d imagine hundreds if not thousands but tbh don’t think they’re going to keep many members long as loads are talking about leaving as the moderators are part of the dangerous group and are using their roles to attack and silence those speaking up about it. Anyway I best get reading and a decent laptop 😂

[LeftyGuitar]

You don't need anything super fancy for web development. However you'll want something that is at least modern by today's standards for a laptop or desktop. A laptop of course is more portable. As someone who codes in C, C# and other programming languages not related to web development, but can be used for web development. I like to code desktop applications. If you wanted to make a forum, like this, you'd need to know HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL. Of course that would be a big project of its own, I strongly recommend starting small, making a few small web-pages or small sites and improve upon those.

Edited October 30, 2024 by LeftyGuitar
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[Princ3ss-Baby-Bear]

1 hour ago, LeftyGuitar said:

You don't need anything super fancy for web development. However you'll want something that is at least modern by today's standards for a laptop or desktop. A laptop of course is more portable. As someone who codes in C, C# and other programming languages not related to web development, but can be used for web development. I like to code desktop applications. If you wanted to make a forum, like this, you'd need to know HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, MySQL. Of course that would be a big project of its own, I strongly recommend starting small, making a few small web-pages or small sites and improve upon those.

Thank you ☺️ yeah I think it’s definitely going to be best to start off small as know I’ll end up making a mistake or two. And I definitely need a more modern one lol my current one still runs on windows 98 😂 so definitely no good for coding 🤣

[LeftyGuitar]

Wow, Windows 98, that takes me back. I started learning how to code on a old Windows 98 machine, I don't remember the exact specs, but it had Windows 98. You'll want something with Windows 10/11 for sure.

[LunaLilac]

There's lotf of services that don't require coding, stuff like squarespace and wordpress, but you will have to pay for their tools, and they're pretty restrictive compared to being able to code whatever you want.

[DiscreetNinja]

I love that you want to do this to help others and keep them safe❤️ thank you so much🤗! Lots of love your way❤️

[Princ3ss-Baby-Bear]

6 hours ago, DiscreetNinja said:

I love that you want to do this to help others and keep them safe❤️ thank you so much🤗! Lots of love your way❤️

Thank you 🥰

11 hours ago, LunaLilac said:

There's lotf of services that don't require coding, stuff like squarespace and wordpress, but you will have to pay for their tools, and they're pretty restrictive compared to being able to code whatever you want.

Yeah that’s what I thought, so thank you for confirming it’s better to code from scratch ☺️