Going Live!: Hosting Basics

Celeste Layne
Programming for Design Practices
2 min readMay 7, 2020

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“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”

— Cedric Price

Codepen

Source: Codepen

You must have an account and be logged in, to save the work you’ve created in the Pen Editor. The Pen Editor is where you write the code to make Pens — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The Live Preview area updates as you edit the code. After the first time you save your work, changes you make are automatically saved on a timer.

Glitch

Source: Glitch

Start Building on Glitch

Github Pages

Source: GitHub Pages

Head over to GitHub and create an account.

Troubleshooting

If you find yourself stuck while writing code, remember to be patient. If you haven’t already, try breaking your problem down into smaller, more manageable parts. Search Google or Stack Overflow for how to solve those parts, one at a time. Remember that most of the time you spend writing code will be fixing bugs. (And sometimes bugs will allow you to discover something new you haven’t ever seen before!)

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