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Ashvin Mbuguni
Ashvin Mbuguni
6,360 Points
Posted by Ashvin Mbuguni
Ashvin Mbuguni
6,360 Points

Where do I start if I want to make a Video sharing site similar to YouTube?

Hi there ladies and gentleman. After progressing through the FrontEnd Developer path of the Treehouse course, I have decided I would like to develop a video sharing site, however I am not quite sure where to even begin! I have already written down a plan and have an idea of how I would like the final product to look like. If there is anyone here with any experience or is currently in the process of designing something similar I would hugely appreciate the advice. Thank you.

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Dreamweaver won't help here. Dreamweaver barely does basic static sites, but the code it generates is almost always garbage. And that's not Adobe's fault, that's pretty much any WYSIWYG website builder.

You're going to need to do front end and back end stuff. The biggest challenge is going to be getting the core features working. Dreamweaver won't do that.

IMO, get your features and website/database function. Once you have that going, and you then have an idea of what your HTML structure is going to look like, you can work on the front end stuff.

Ashvin Mbuguni
Ashvin Mbuguni
6,360 Points
Ashvin Mbuguni
Ashvin Mbuguni
6,360 Points

Thanks, so sublime will do or would you recommend a different program?

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Sublime is good, I use sublime. Atom is also pretty cool. You could also use Textmate, Brackets, or whatever else. The code editor doesn't matter. Heck, you could use Wordpad if you wanted to, but I wouldn't.

You could even use dreamweaver, but I'd ignore all of it's features, and just use it as a (very expensive) text editor only.

Steve Davies
Steve Davies
10,389 Points
Steve Davies
Steve Davies
10,389 Points

Depends how big you want to be. You could start off by just embedding videos into your page from YouTube / Vimeo untill you raise funds to host your own.

Ashvin Mbuguni
Ashvin Mbuguni
6,360 Points
Ashvin Mbuguni
Ashvin Mbuguni
6,360 Points

Thanks for that. Also would you recommend I use DreamWeaver or a program such as Sublime text to design the page?

Steve Davies
Steve Davies
10,389 Points
Steve Davies
Steve Davies
10,389 Points

Dreamweaver will allow you to create sites either by code or visually (where it does things for you), if you are happy with just working with code then stick with Sublime. I tend to use Dreamweaver to manage a site, or deal with templates but the majority of my stuff is in a programme like Sublime, to be honest, I find it takes just as much time in either type of application.

Ahmed Mazen
Ahmed Mazen
1,015 Points
Ahmed Mazen
Ahmed Mazen
1,015 Points

You can use vidmy.com to create your video sharing website. It will allow you to start immediately.