Websites and Coding

Tools for putting your stuff online and/or getting into coding

Making a website involves a lot of pieces, but some tools exist specifically for creating and hosting particular kinds of websites.
This overlaps with but is not identical to tools which are useful for learning coding, therefore both are listed here.

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Hosting Servies

General

Hosting Services which support any website.
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Niche

Hosting services which support a specific type of website.
Comic Fury
"ComicFury webcomic hosting is a free, easy to use and advertisement-free tool that will help you easily set up and host a website for your webcomic, without any technical knowledge. All you will have to worry about when using ComicFury is actually making the comics, the rest is provided by us."
Royal Road
"Royal Road® is the home of web novels and fan fictions! In our amazing community, you can find various talented individuals who write as a hobby or even professionally, artists who create art for them, and many, many readers who provide valuable feedback and encouragement."

Design Elements

Widgets

Tools which can enhance your website, either functionally or aesthetically.
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blinkies.cafe
"blinkies.cafe is a blinkie generator you can use to create your own blinkie gifs, choosing from dozens of styles and adding whatever text you like!"
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Learn To Code

Guides and Tutorials

Resources primarily structured around tutorials and how-to documents, videos, walkthroughs, etc.
W3 Schools
"Learn to Code... With the world's largest web developer site... We create simplified and interactive learning experiences. Learning web development should be easy to understand and available for everyone, everywhere! W3Schools is a school for web developers, covering all the aspects of web development".
Javascript Info
"An Introduction to JavaScript... Let’s see what’s so special about JavaScript, what we can achieve with it, and what other technologies play well with it."

Building and Testing

Resources primarily focused on testing and developing coding projects. May contain instructions as an incidental feature, but is not structured around tutorials.
Code Pen
"CodePen is a social development environment. At its heart, it allows you to write code in the browser, and see the results of it as you build. A useful and liberating online code editor for developers of any skill, and particularly empowering for people learning to code. We focus primarily on front-end languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and preprocessing syntaxes that turn into those things."

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