Chapter 16
A Name of Our Own
In Part III of Learn Enough HTML, CSS and Layout to Be Dangerous, we’ll add a final bit of polish to the kind of websites created in Part I and Part II: using custom URLs for our site instead of using URLs at GitHub Pages. In other words, instead of having a site at someone else’s domain, like example.someoneelsesdomain.com, we’re going to learn how to use our own custom domain like example.com.1
1. Because the custom-domains material is intended mainly for reference, there are no exercises in Part III.
In this chapter, we’ll cover how to register a custom domain (Section 16.1), how to configure its settings for the Domain Name System (DNS) using Cloudflare (Section 16.2), and how to connect a custom domain to a ...
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