how to make a web site?

nighthawk · 250+ Club Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 416 Location: SFRJ

I just started learning some basic html, I also installed dreamweaver.

I need to make a web site whose members (members will pay for membership and it will expire after some time) will get e-mails with some text.

I am ready to learn everything i need to now in order to make this site but the problem is i don't know what things i need for this - html, php, javascript...
Can you tell me how to start?

johneva · Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

You will need to learn HTML and CSS to make the page content and style it to how you want it, then you will need some server side (PHP or ASP) and some database (SQL or something) skills to make your membership side of things work.

This is not going to be as easy as you are thinking I think. To learn HTML and CSS to a good standard your looking at 6 months (at least) then to learn then another year at least to learn server side programming skills and database skills.

If you wanna learn HTML and CSS these couple of sites are exellent.

http://www.w3schools.com
http://www.htmldog.com

You could cheat and use Dreamweaver in design veiw to design your content and style of the site, though I would advise against it as all WYSIWYG editors write very poor code and you will not understand the code you need to edit in order to do the membership side of the site.

You could get a pre made system of some sort depending on your requirments but I would also advise against that to cos you wont know how to edit things or fix anything when it goes wrong.

So there is no short cuts to where you wanna be really.

nighthawk · 250+ Club Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 416 Location: SFRJ

I already have some very good books about html, can you recommend me some for php and/or SQL.

johneva · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

Na sorry matey I dont use books to learn I use websites.

Also I have not learnt PHP or SQL yet, I have had a little play around with PHP but literally a little play.

Here is a good site to pickup the basics.
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/index.php

Or this should do ya.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

C@L · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:54 am Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

I think your best learning HTML and CSS first

What good is a site if you cant stand looking at it

johneva · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:36 am Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

Definatly!

As I said in my first message this is not going to be something you can learn overnight or in a few weeks.

nighthawk · 250+ Club Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 416 Location: SFRJ

About html - i already have learned some basics but i plan to use Dreamweaver and learn html at the same time. I will learn it faster and i can start making web sites right now.

C@L · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

Yeh dreamweaver will help you learn

But before learning php id recomend CSS Smile

johneva · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

Definatly!

nighthawk · 250+ Club Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 416 Location: SFRJ

I alresdy started css.

How much do you think javascript is important? Do you use it in your web sites? Some browser do not support javascript, is that big problem?

Am i too boring with all this begginer's questions?

johneva · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: how to make a web site?

No your not boring cos your asking questions thats the huge advantage with using these forums you can always find some advice from someone. Wink

Na I dont like to use Javascript unless I really have to for the reason you just pointed out that 10% of users have javascript turned off, also most of the things it does tend to be tacky too. But saying that it does have its uses sometimes.

Importance of it not very much at all, XHTML and CSS to a high standard and then a server-side language are the most important in my opinion.

Once you have some programming experiance it makes it easyer to pickup other languages anyways, so once you have got your server side language sorted you could soon work on javascript a bit and should pick it up fairly easy.