What is "Serving Web to Surf?" Just the basic idea of the physical process of delivering web content to be surfed by the search engines of the internet. I have been a programmer since I was a child in the early '80s but I never tried to learn much about online programming after about '98. Now, as a seasoned surfer (since '98) I see many tools from free and low cost do it yourself hosting to completely free let us provide the most space age tools for your until your dream takes off and you need more resources you can obviously now pay for at that point. There are just so many ways anyone could spend little to nothing to begin to have a voice online. Just I am doing right now.
Despite my expertise in most computer sciences, I always looked at internet programming as this hodge podge of little black boxes but now all the tools out there seem intent on shedding great light on this topic and lifting the mysteries. I am an expert in computer programming and abstract programming having spent three decades chasing the hobby as a serious passion. However, I am a complete noob when it comes to programming the internet. I bet there are quite a few of you fellow noobs who would love to dive in but where to begin. After all, all we really want to do is learn to serve the kind of web we would love to surf.
Though I will likely post articles on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and back-linking in regards to generating traffic, that is not focus of this blog. This blog is about how many different ways are there to wrap a web hosting experience online. This could be everything from Weebly to GoDaddy to Google Drive with Google Cloud services. There are so many tools and so many ways they can be put together to make the tools you might want for your fledgling online dream.
My hope is that, being a proficient programmer but new to internet programming as many of you, that as I learn I will provide useful content to you. The content of this blog will always be original. Even when I review claims from syndicated articles I will not wast our time rehashing the syndicated article when a link to a copy with a minimum of ad spam would be sufficient. There is so much cool stuff to learn and especially from Google services.
To be honest though, I have been learning for a couple of months already before I had the idea to share with the internet what I am learning. Topics I have already played with and will eventually revisit and post include setting up a free web store with little restrictions in appearance and functionality in an afternoon; How to set up a online free checking account with $0 min deposite and connect it with pay service like PayPal; How to set up and run a blog completely from a smartphone (there are easier blogs to do this with than Blogger); and today I just started my Google Cloud Services free $300 credit 60 day trial service to see what I can learn about server side applications; And, at the same time I will be learning to publish my website from Google drive. I own a domain name that I can experiment with so if I could get Google Cloud to act as a url shrinker redirect server for the webpages hosted on Google Drive under my Domain.Name/RelevantPageName then I think I would have a cool Frankenstein's monster to share with y'all.
See you next post when I hopefully figure out my first php script which needs to be a mailer for my webpages hosted on my google drive. This should be simple enough to accomplish yet cool enough to be useful to you. It is the reason I decided to stop putting off finding a path to server side web applications.
