February 18, 20215 yr Hi All, I'm very happy to have found this forum. I had a change of career and had always wanted to learn to code. My first website is about to be launched soon and I realise that designing the site is only a small part of the process. I found buying the domain, finding a webhost, organising domain emails and arranging the SSL cert bewildering. I have only just uploaded my files onto the server (who knew about FTP apps? I didn't!). My learning curve has been very steep but I'm getting there. Luckily my first client is very understanding and, as she is starting her first business, we're both finding our way. Having come from a large corporation with lots of peer and tech support, I've found working on my own in a new field quite daunting and at times a bit lonely. I'm so glad to have found this forum. Although a beginner myself, I'd love to help others when I'm confident that my advice is good! Thanks. Wheezie
February 18, 20215 yr Welcome to the forums! Yes "design" is only a part of the process, there's tons to learn, keep plugging away at it when you find new problems to solve. By the way, the learning never stops so don't feel you have to know everything! FTP has been around since the dawn of the internet - Cute FTP was the first I used in the 1990's. A few people scoff at FTP but it's perfectly fine to use at your level - though I would recommend using sFTP (the secure version) if you can, most web hosts support it. My tip: it's ok to make mistakes, when you fix them you learn stuff
March 13, 20215 yr I to am in a similar state of 'career changing' so am a kindred spirit, of sorts. Hope I can help at some point, although as a total beginner, that may be a while away. Good luck on your adventure Wheezie!
March 17, 20215 yr I haven't seen anybody deploy with FTP in well over a decade, you might want to find some more upto date tutorials for the modern web. For a long time deployment has been through a source control repository like Github and that can be integrated with a modern host such as netlify which can automatically deploy your website when you merge. In fact for absolute beginners with Netlify you can just literally drag and drop your files. As I said I've not seen or used an FTP client in my entire professional career. There's lots of resources to get started as a budding web developer. I'd recommend paying for something like FrontendMasters and start here https://frontendmasters.com/learn/beginner/. You really want to avoid the outdated tutorials, it's a bit of a minefield knowing what to learn and what is obsolete. A resource like frontend masters will help ensure you're not wasting your time and energy.
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