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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Coding Static Web Pages

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting comfy with the difference between static and dynamic pages

Bullet Setting up and cloning a GitHub repository

Bullet Pushing changes to the repository

Bullet Creating an HTML template file

Bullet Generating static HTML files with PHP

Bullet Deploying your static files to GitHub Pages

With static HTML, [the] story is pretty simple. You…write the code (including your content). Then, once it’s on the server, it’s always like that. There’s no background processing going on — your site is always right there in its finished form.

— BRIAN JACKSON

One of the unfortunate hallmarks of web coding and development over the past dozen years or so is an ever-increasing level of complexity for the developer. New web coding frameworks get released alarmingly frequently, with each new “solution” boasting a learning curve even steeper than the previous one. (A framework, just so ...

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