I was motivated to make a website in order to give myself a starting point for my coding journey. I've been interested in computers since I was a kid, and I've always wanted to learn coding, but I've never really spent much time applying myself to the endeavor. Today, I decided to change that by deploying my own website and learning HTML.
There are many easy ways to make a website, like using Google Sites. However, I wanted to go as basic as I possibly could, so that I would learn about all the parts of a website. I am literally writing this blog post in a HTML file inside Notepad on Windows. Doing this will force me to put into practice everything that I learn about HTML, and will also make me appreciate all the constituent data of a website that are necessary to share information on the web. I found this blog post from a Reddit post and it was perfect for guiding me through exactly what I wanted.
I've heard that websites are often built using a mixture of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Combining these languages allows websites to be colorful and animated, rather than just being text. Right now, I have no CSS or JavaScript knowledge, so my website will be very barebones and probably filled with lots of text. I hope to change that as I learn more about making my own website. I think a reasonable challenge for my next project will be to implement a dark mode on this website, and then to add a mobile mode.