TL;DR did I waste 100 hours learning HTML, CSS, and JS to start my fashion website with a small shop or is there a simple framework so that I can use my skills? Is anyone able to help me with a simple framework to work within where I can have a couple of pages of HTML, a CSS page for styling, and a JS script for laying out images in a CSS grid with some cheap and cheerful e-commerce integration (maybe Snipcart, Medusa.js or…) on a host where they keep the technical side up to date so I don’t have to worry?
Hi everyone,
I am a 23-year-old fashion designer who has recently found some success in the fashion world and have now realised that I need a website…
I was keen to have a unique and custom feeling for my web presence to enhance how people feel about my brand and start to build the world that it lives in. For my website, I was thinking I will need pages for home, shop, media coverage, and archives of previous work. I am not yet expecting to be taking lots of orders through my website so I was trying to avoid using website builders (squarespace, wix etc.) as their e-commerce plans are normally quite pricey.
What I wanted from my website is quite simple (but unique in the fashion world) so I decided that it would be a good idea to learn how to code (and fun), so I ended up doing about 100 hours of the Scrimba front-end development course. I finished the javascript lessons and stopped before learning about react and APIs as I felt like I could get what I wanted from my website from what I had learned already.
Feeling ready to get started on my own website using vanilla javascript, HTML, and CSS I downloaded VS code and got to building. I was having a lot of fun and as someone who works visually in fashion, I found it very rewarding to be able to type strange strings of words and have it produce a website.
Jumping ahead of myself I wanted to research the next step of how I would get this website out to the world. One thing led to another and I got in over my head in a research rabbit hole that is your guys’ world of web development. I signed up for a managed Site Ground WordPress plan and thought it would have a great level of customizability mixed with plugins that would make my life as an amateur much easier + it would have totally free WooCommerce.
Now I have realised that WordPress websites are dynamic, not static and it makes the 100 hours of coding school I did redundant.
So what I want to ask is if there is no use in having a little bit of coding knowledge, is it either you know everything about web development or nothing? Since thinking of getting my money back from Site Ground and wondering what my options are I have been inundated with information and abbreviations, jamstack, node.js, headless commerce, APIs etc. there is just so much to learn in this world!
Is anyone able to help me with a simple framework to work within where I can have a couple of pages of HTML, a CSS page for styling, and a JS script for laying out images in a CSS grid with some cheap and cheerful e-commerce integration (maybe Snipcart, Medusa.js or…) run on a managed server (like a managed WordPress hosting) where the host keeps the technical side up to date so I don’t have to worry?
Thank you SO much for making it to the end of that.
I tried to research this all around and feel like my head might explode!