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windows_web_dev_notes.md

1. Hosting/DNS - NearlyFreeSpeech - cheap, pay what you use hosting (literally could be < $1 a year)
2. Web Server - Mongoose - a no installation, no configurations, one click to run web server (nice for local development)
3. FTP - Cyberduck - will use to upload all your files to NFS
4. Editor - Visual Studio Code - will use to edit all your html, css, javascript, etc..
5. Colors - Color Cop - a nice color picker for web designers
6. Browser - Chrome - has really nice tools for web developers
7. Backup - Dropbox - a nice cloud storage app so you never lose your stuff
8. Version Control (optional for now) - Git and SourceTree - a proper version control setup [details below]

dev stack setup

we don't need a domain or web host right now

1. Make a folder wherever called projects
2. Download Mongoose and put the file in your projects folder
3. Create a folder inside of projects called example
4. Create an hello.html file inside of example and in that file just put <h1>hello world</h1>
5. Run Mongoose from the projects folder
6. A new tab will open in your browser showing you the contents of projects
7. Click example and then hello.html
8. Now you are serving websites locally from your computer, in a little web server. You can use Visual Studio Code to edit these html, css, or javascript files.

backup via dropbox

using dropbox, you can have free backups of your work, available from any other computer

1. Install Dropbox, which'll have you make an account
2. Within the Dropbox folder added to your computer, move your projects folder from above
3. Done!

using git and source tree

learning git is pretty important today

1. TODO
2. maybe read this for now http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/
3. SourceTree is just a GUI for git