Chapter 4
Coding Static Web Pages
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting comfy with the difference between static and dynamic pages
Setting up and cloning a GitHub repository
Pushing changes to the repository
Creating an HTML template file
Generating static HTML files with PHP
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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