Building This Site From Scratch — Domain, DNS, and Learning As I Go
This site is my current side project and my current classroom. I bought the domain, set it up on Namecheap shared hosting, and I'm uploading files through VS Code over SFTP — figuring most of it out step by step.
One wrinkle worth mentioning: I already had custom email running through iCloud on this domain, so editing DNS meant being careful not to break the existing MX records while pointing everything else where it needed to go. Small thing, but the kind of detail you only learn by almost breaking it.
Beyond the plumbing, I'm using this project to actually learn HTML, CSS, SQL, Python, and JavaScript — not just read about them. Every section of this site, including this post, is a rep. Expect the design and the content to keep evolving as I get better at this.