Intro

Basically this is just a set of instructions how to set up an online place with a domain, custom email adress and a website for blogging.

Except for the domain all will be free.

The level will be very simple with a lot of steps for the not so tech aware. All based on MacOS

This will be a series of posts

Introduction (this one)
Buying a domain
Setting up Cloudflare (still to come)
Creating custom email adresses with Cloudflare and Gmail
Creating a blog with Hugo
Go live! Upload the blog to Cloudflare pages
Use Cloudflare R2 as CDN for content (still to come)

First some basic stuff to get going. There will be some coding (not much) involved and we must able to open an editor in the terminal.

Lesson one:

Open the terminal on MacOS with Spotlight (hold the Command button and press the Space bar). Type terminal, select the terminal and press Return. A terminal window will open.

To edit a file we use an editor. In the terminal window type

nano

Nano is a very basic easy to use editor. Enter some text, to save the file press <CTRL-w> and enter a name for the file (e.g. test.txt). To close nano press <CTRL-x>. You can also use the TextEdit application but make sure to save as plain text.

Now you can also type

nano test.txt

The file will open and you can make changes or add text or whatever. To close <CTRL-x> and confirm save and filename.

That was easy 🙃