My First Site

I have been dreaming about having a site of my own for a long time, but I didn’t try to set it up because I thought I might require a lot of expertise. Today, I just set up my first site by following in the instructions given in this course – I’m thrilled. Let me talk about this very experience and what I might do with this site: http://zhihanyang.net/.

One thing I did not like about website hosting platforms is that they enforce templates. As someone with strong preferences on how my texts should look, I am utterly dissatisfied with most templates. Now, with the knowledge of CSS and applying custom CSS to websites, I realized that this is not an issue anymore. This morning, I added the code snippet below into my custom CSS and was finally able to have my favorite font and text-align mode applied to paragraphs. And here’s how it looks (I can’t stand reading paragraphs that are not justified).

p {
	font-family:Verdana;
	text-align:justify;
	text-justify:inter-word;
}

As you can already see from my About page, I plan to use my first site as a online resume plus a blog containing posts on artificial intelligence. Previously, I’ve written quite a few blog posts in Github but they did not look good. Now I am planning to publish them on my new site.

I have to say that site hosting services like Reclaim Hosting is definitely better than I thought. I am aware that it hides away many details of setting up a site and allows site newbies like me to put all of our energy into the most important thing – writing contents and publishing them on the web. Although the price is a bit expensive compared to many other hosting services, I would say it is certainly worth it in terms of the time, energy and frustration it saves.