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I'll give a more detailed answer.
Docker doesn't help you in the development of the website. Docker helps you with the deployment of the website.
The purpose of Docker is to give you a consistent environment. When you create a Docker "image," that image includes all of the files and software required to run the website. Then on some computer accessible by the public internet, you can just download that "image" and run your website using a "container" created from the image.
You can think of the image as the blueprint of all the bits and pieces needed to run your website. The container is basically all those pieces put into action to actually run the website.
Now, depending on your website, you may not even need Docker. If it's frontend-only, you could use some service like Vercel, where you don't even need Docker.
Can you share more info about your current level of knowledge and the website you want to make?
I wish to create a website promoting a tourist destination in general, in relation to a particular homestay in that area.
Okay, but what's your current level of web development knowledge?
And if I'm understanding your website properly, it seems like you don't have any kind of user generated content, yes? And if there were updates to the site, you would just make them yourself? If this is the case, then it sounds like frontend-only, and you can probably just use Vercel. If you're going super simple, maybe even Github Pages would work.
Alternatively, is there any reason you're not using a site builder like Wix or Squarespace?
Honestly, l'm at level 0 as far as even coding is concerned. This l wish to promote a certain homestay, so GitHub pages takes the focus away. Updates l'll do myself. However, a section on comments by the users would definitely add value.
I prefer to slog it out primarily to have some fun. I see it as if a child is painting purely out of his imagination 😊😊😊