I have been curious about the way search engines crawl the internet. Recently, I revisited materials on this topic covered in my Intro to CS course at McGill. With the spirit of learn by doing, I went to get my hand dirty and made a lightweight search engine that crawls a certain website. You can…
Category: Web
How to build a personal website (2)
In the last post, I briefly talked about how to reserve a domain name and set up hosting service for your personal website. In this post, I will review the templates I used in creating static and dynamic WordPress websites.
How to build a personal website
Having a personal website is exciting, but setting it up sure is intimidating to beginners: Where and how to get a domain name? How to set up hosting server? Do I have to use WordPress (because so many people are using it)? How to put my contents online? How much SEO do I need? I will…