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CSS How to Make a Website Sharing a Website Upload the Website

Posted by Madisyn Haarman
Madisyn Haarman
3,832 Points

Do I actually have to do all these steps? Such as uploading my site and paying for it?

Or can I just watch and learn?

2 Answers

Christopher Loyd
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Christopher Loyd
Courses Plus Student 5,806 Points
Christopher Loyd
Christopher Loyd
Courses Plus Student 5,806 Points

No.

Signing up for the web hosting and domain name service is strictly optional, and won't affect the rest of the course. It's just a suggestion. Once you get a better understanding of web development and have some content of your own to show, then you should begin worrying about registering a domain and looking for hosting services. Having a domain and hosting service with no content to show, isn't really helpful.

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points
elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

You can just watch and learn. But if you want to follow the steps without paying for a domain, you can use webserver-software like XAMPP to see your website in your own browser. Treehouse must have some steps in a course somewhere on how to do this. If not, i'm happy to give you more on this.

Good luck!