Client Websites | Client to upload their own videos/blogs

For this type of task you would need a dynamic site with a fair bit of server-side code running on it. The code can be written in pretty much any server-side language of which there are actually quite a few, PHP, Python, Java, C#, Ruby, JavaScript just to name a few.

If you want to use JavaScript for this task (which you presumably is already somewhat familiar with) then you need to look into Node.js which is what allows you to use JavaScript on the server. And Express which is the most common server framework that is used with Node.js. Treehouse has basic tutorials for both available but you should be aware that the project you are taking on is no small feat.

You would essentially be building a simple CMS (Content Management System) which enables somebody to login to a site and submit media, blog posts and other such activities. For such a system to work you will need to implement not only code that can receive and save media and text from some input form on the website but also code to authenticate that the person submitting this info is a valid user. As well as code that dynamically generates the website before it is sent from the server so that it always displays the most recently posted blog posts and media.

None of those things are impossible, far from it. But it's certainly not a quick and easy task, especially if you have no prior experience with server side coding and dynamic websites.

You might be better of using a prebuilt CMS like WordPress and then customizing that yourself instead of creating a CMS from scratch. But that still requires a bit of learning to use and customize, though Treehouse also has tutorials for that available.

Hi Andren,

Thank you for the informative answer. I guess possibly taking on such task at the moment could be overwhelming for my current skill level. I would need to go away and study some more and create some dummy websites before taking on projects like this myself.

Thanks you again.