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A Complete Guide to Launching Your Website: From Local to Live

Gain insights into web deployment, explore essential steps for going live, discover tools, security measures, SEO techniques, and deploy a sample site using Google Cloud Platform.

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27 Lessons12 Quizzes

Introduction

Get familiar with launching a website, covering domain registration, hosting, and maintenance.

Who This Course is For

Going Live

Walk through launching a website from local testing to live deployment.

The Basics

Getting Started

Domain Name

3 Lessons

Go hands-on with choosing domain registrars, registering domain names, and linking web hosting services.

Web Hosting

2 Lessons

Break down the steps to choosing the most effective web hosting service.

Publish Your Website

9 Lessons

Solve problems in securely deploying and managing your website using cloud platforms and version control.

Testing & Maintenance

5 Lessons

Focus on effective server, website, frontend, API, and database maintenance and testing.

Post Launch Checklist

3 Lessons

Master the steps to improving web analytics, SEO, and generating ad revenue for your website.

Where to go from here

2 Lessons

Learn how to use web development skills and career paths after launching your site.

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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Developed by MAANG Engineers

Every Educative lesson is designed by a team of ex-MAANG software engineers and PhD computer science educators, and developed in consultation with developers and data scientists working at Meta, Google, and more. Our mission is to get you hands-on with the necessary skills to stay ahead in a constantly changing industry. No video, no fluff. Just interactive, project-based learning with personalized feedback that adapts to your goals and experience.

ABOUT THIS COURSE

We can find a plethora of content on the internet related to web development in many different languages. However, what are we supposed to do once our web application has been created? The next step is to make it live on the world wide web. This course takes us deep into the world of web deployment, specifying all the necessary steps needed to make our website available to users. Learn about the different tools, security measures and deployment platforms available to us in the modern era. This comprehensive guide also teaches us about important web concepts such as Search Engine Optimization and server maintenance. Furthermore, for your ease, we'll be deploying a sample website using the Google Cloud Platform! So get your web applications ready because they are about to go live.

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