Week 1
domain names/ ICANN / Blog website
Set Up:
TheSiteWizard
Basically I should buy a domain name. Its only like $10 a year… or maybe I could find another way:
What a domain name is:
1/5/2022
It’s a name that allows people to find your website. Even if everything else changes people can find your website if you link it to the domain name.
how to register your own domain name
“Getting a domain name involves registering the name you want with an organization called
ICANN through a domain name registrar.”
You can get a webhost to do it for you, but I want to try to do this myself.
Reading further this is apparently a bad idea
1/7/2022
Doing research on blog websites to use.
1/10/2022
1/12/2022
Trying to figure out wordpress
1/13/2021
https://www.dreamhost.com/academy/website-building-101/
https://www.dreamhost.com/academy/understanding-different-kinds-of-domains/
Top-Level domain: .com, .net, ect…
Second-Level domain: “.dreamhost”, (the word associated with the website)
Third-Level domain: www. (can actually be a few different things)