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Creating A Website

  • Do 30 minutes of market research on the market
    • Look at other similar websites. You need to be better than 50% of them.
    • Look at what sections they have. Choose what you need.
  • Think of a domain name
  • Choose a stack
    • Hugo
    • Jekyll
    • Roll your own
    • Wordpress
    • Squarespace
  • Choose a theme
  • Get images
    • Unsplash
  • Write Copy
  • Decide on a logo
    • Implement as a favicon
  • Set up Google Analytics
  • Set up a mailing list
    • Use TinyLetter if not too big in scope
    • Use MailChimp if you want more than that.
  • Launch on the appropriate platform

Launching on Netlify

  • Create GitHub repository
  • Push to GitHub repository
  • Enable new site on Netlify pointing to this repo
    • Name site something intuitive - you'll use this later
  • Go to Hover and set DNS following other sites examples
    • Point DNS at Netlify
  • Go to Google and enable domain alias for emails
    • Set MX records on Hover on Google
    • Enable domain alias (google how to do this)
  • Turn on SSL

For Hugo

  • Add theme
  • Add public and content folders with .gitkeep
  • Set up a Makefile and use more recent Hugo version if needed