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My Local Development Environment

A local development environment is like a flight simulator for web development. It is different from a production development environment because whereas a production site is a published website that is live, online, and can be seen by the end-user in public, a web site on a local development environment is only seen by you. This is because your computer is seen like a “web hosting service” to your local development environment.

It is important to use a local environment for development because it allows you to experiment and make changes to the code of a web page without running the risk of breaking the site. Yes, you can make changes to a WordPress site on the back-end of the live site, but the safer route would be to make a copy of your production site into your local environment on your computer. Here, you can try out, test, and troubleshoot the changes you’ve made to the website in the staging phase without running the possibility of breaking the live site in the production phase. This is very helpful for maintaining a WordPress site in addition to developing one for the first time.

I prefer my local environment to look exactly like my production environment because this is where I feel I can fully benefit from having a local development environment. I want my local server on my computer to look, feel, and behave as though it is a live web hosted server. This way the staging website will emulate the finished product as if it was already online, before it becomes a production site.

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What is CMS?

Content Management System

Content Management System is a software system that is used to create and manage online web content such as text, pictures, graphics, audio, and applications. CMS allows people with little or no web design knowledge to create a web site, as well as help expert web designers efficiently create an online presence.

Some example of CMS are YouTube, Facebook, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Netflix, and WordPress. These examples meet my definition of Content Management Systems because they all manage some sort of digital content and does not require the user to have a computer programming background to utilize and greatly benefit from it.

  • YouTube allows people to post video contents and allow other people to subscribe, share, and like videos.
  • Facebook allows people to create an online profile by managing pictures and text posts and connect virtually with other users.
  • PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and Netflix are CMS that allows management of digital entertainment products and applications.
  • And WordPress is a CMS that allows beginners such as myself to create this very only blog site with ease.

I think that WordPress is very popular because of the ease of use. Creating a web site is a challenging and intimidating task to people with very little computer programming background. A WordPress site can be created without any computer programming knowledge, although being familiar with Hyper Text Markup Language (html) and Cascading Style Sheet (css) would be advantageous to the user. Starting off in WordPress is not much different than starting off in a social networking profile (like Facebook) for the first time.

The most difficult part about installing WordPress was that I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m completely new to web hosting, so my first obstacle was to shop around for a web host (GoDaddy, Wix, SquareSpace, FastComet, etc.). Then, after paying for hosting, there is a cPanel web hosting account that I had to learn to navigate. After that, I had difficulty going about how to actually install WordPress so I can actually use it. Fortunately, I reached out to my instructor and with great guidance, I overcame this difficulty and I was able to get this very blog page online for which I am very thankful.

Still very new to WordPress, but my first impression is very promising. There’s much to learn about WordPress, but it is not a scary thing because it is something that I am very much looking forward to. I already see that there is an option to edit as html, so I’m looking forward to that among other possibilities with WordPress. I’m sure any confusion can be resolved by actively working with WordPress in class.

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My first blog post.

My first blog post. Being entirely new to both Web Hosting and WordPress, I did find some difficulty getting this to work. I didn’t even know where to buy web hosting, let alone go about getting WordPress. But with valuable guidance from a couple great instructors, they have helped me reached this far and point me in the right direction. Thank you.

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