Lets Get Started !!

Follow the guide below to get your site up and running in record time!

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Create A Site

This is the platform we will use

  1. Open the Amazon Web Services home page
  2. Choose Create an AWS Account
  3. Enter your account information, and then choose Continue. Be sure that you enter your account information correctly, especially your email address. If you enter your email address incorrectly, you can't access your account.
  4. Choose Personal or Professional.
  5. Enter your company or personal information.
  6. Read and accept the AWS Customer Agreement.
  7. Choose Create Account and Continue.

This is where we will store your website files

  1. Under Storage in the console, choose S3 to open the Amazon S3 console. aws console
  2. From the Amazon S3 console dashboard, choose Create Bucket.
  3. In Create a Bucket, type your desired site address in Bucket Name.The bucket name you choose must be globally unique across all existing bucket names in Amazon S3 (that is, across all AWS customers). aws console
  4. Select the Region closest to you and then click Create bucket

Now we will get a public url to access our bucket files

  1. From the s3 console Select the bucket we just created
  2. In the bucket view select the Permissions tab aws console
  3. Under the Block public access section select edit
  4. Then Deselect Block all public access checkbox and type confirm then click confirm to save changes
  5. Next the bucket view select the Properties tab aws console
  6. Under the Static Web Hosting section select edit
  7. Select enable then host a static website
  8. In the Index document field input the Hame of the homepage file for your site and an error page
  9. Then hit Save Changes
  10. Now we have the Base URL for our public site. aws console

Create a Home Page

Here we will pick a template to base your site on

  1. There are many places and frameworks you can use but we are going to use Bootstrap
  2. Select a template that you like and Download it to your computer aws console

Its time to customize your site

  1. Extract all the zipped files we downloaded earlier and Open the index.html file using the IDE/Text Editor of your choice
  2. Edit the title tags and meta tags to your liking and begin filling your homepage with content in pure html aws console

Now we share your creation with the world

  1. Now that you have modified your homepage to your hearts content we can head back to the S3 Console to upload it
  2. Select your bucket that we created earlier and under the objects tab Select Upload aws console
  3. Select Add Files then navigate to the folder where you have the modified index.html file and Select all Files and Folders needed for the site then click open. aws console
  4. Once all files are listed in the files and folders section click Upload
  5. Now in the buckets objects tab multi Select all Fils and Folders then click the actions menu and Select Make Public aws console
  6. Now View Your Site using the public link we generated in the properties tab for this bucket under the Static Website Hosting section. aws console

Create Content Pages

Here we will pick a template to use for the content pages

  1. There are many places and frameworks you can use but we are going to use Bootstrap
  2. Select a template that you like and Download it to your computer or reuse the homepage template aws console

Its time to customize your content pages and link it to your home page

  1. Extract all the zipped files we downloaded earlier and Open the index.html file using the IDE/Text Editor of your choice
  2. Edit the title tags and meta tags to your liking and begin filling your homepage with content in pure html aws console
  3. Since this is not the main page for your site change the file name from index.html to another name like my blog.html
  4. Now that you have added a page a link to the new page needs to created from the home page so open the index.html and add a link to the new page at blog.html

Now we share your creation with the world

  1. Now that you have modified your homepage and added content pages we can head back to the S3 Console to upload it
  2. Select your bucket that we created earlier and under the objects tab Select Upload aws console
  3. Select Add Files then navigate to the folder where you have the modified index.html and blog.html files and Select all Files and Folders needed for the site then click open. aws console
  4. Once all files are listed in the files and folders section click Upload
  5. Now in the buckets objects tab multi Select all Fils and Folders then click the actions menu and Select Make Public aws console
  6. Now View Your Site using the public link we generated in the properties tab for this bucket under the Static Website Hosting section. aws console

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