Web page "programming" design?

Question

Web page "programming" design?

Answer 1

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL. Later on learn Ruby and AJAX. Learn the foundations first. XHTML and CSS



http://alistapart.com

http://webstandards.org/learn/external/xhtml/



You want a blog, just get the WordPress platform http://wordpress.org and install it to your server. Installation only takes about 30 seconds.



A message board takes about the same time. http://simplemachines.org or http://punbb.org have some nice boards.



You want to hand code there are some nice editors out there. i uses PHP Designer 2007 http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php



but there is also:



http://editplus.com - Edit+

http://jedit.org - jEdit

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm - Notepad++

http://crimsoneditor.com - Crimson Editor



XHTML and CSS... HTML 4.01 is dying by the wayside, more sites these days use a Traditional or Strict DOCTYPE with XHTML1.0 though traditional is exactly what the word means and sites should be using XHTML 1.0 Strict and up with the advent of XHTML 2 looming over the horizon.

Answer 2

Reviews and descriptions of the product/company is the first thing I look for. I want to know about the product, so where is the information? Make as much info available as possible. Do you have easy links to follow and clear ways of us being able to order it? So I like the info of the product. How do I get it? The easier to get it, the better. Do you allow users to review your product/company? Not necessary, but I like it because it tells me what people think of the product/company. Are your pages attractive and colorful? If not, what will hold my attention? Product alone isn't always good enough. A splash of color really attracts people. Finally, is it user compatible? If it takes a super genius nerd to solve though it, I wouldn't go on the site. Just remember to keep it simple so that EVERYONE can use it. If you answer all of these questions, I call that a good web page. Good luck!

Answer 3

http://getafreelnacer.com/ provides free web site design , professional web design, web design company, custom website design, web design an development.

Answer 4

Absolutely start with XHTML and CSS, and then move on to JavaScript right afterward.



Strictly speaking, XHTML and CSS are not programming languages at all, but a method of markup that is interpreted by the browser. JavaScript is much closer to a conventional programming language, though.



Once you've learned those, Macromedia Flash isn't a bad idea either.

Answer 5

You'll need a combination of technologies. If you go the open-source route, then the most prevalent is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).



PHP for the scripting, SQL for the database, and you'll want to learn Apache configuration, especially the mod_rewrite module (which has so many features, there are whole books devoted to it).



Come to think of it, you'll want to learn Regular Expressions. Specifically, Perl-based regular expressions used by PHP functions like preg_match() and preg_replace().



If you're the sort who likes to dive right in by looking at source code, you have a lot of options. Most of the popular blog and discussion board software is all open-source, and written in PHP...



http://drupal.org



Drupal deserves some special mention here. It's almost always my system of choice... a very powerful categorization system (taxonomy), better-featured and better-looking discussion boards than PHPBB, better blogging capabilities than WordPress, and so many powerful add-in modules that you could build your own Yahoo Answers (complete with voting) without having to do any programming at all. I kid you not.



http://joomla.org

http://wordpress.org

http://wikkawiki.org



Others worth mentioning...



http://oscommerce.com

http://zencart.com

(Two shopping cart/online store applications. And yet, Drupal's eCommerce module is nicer. Okay okay, I'll shut up about Drupal already).



http://moodle.org

(An online classroom environment, once again, open-source and writtin in PHP)



http://phplist.com

(Software for managing LARGE mailing lists, newsletters, etc)



http://mediawiki.com

(The PHP-based wiki engine written specifically to run the massive MediaWiki site.)



Finally, now that we've beaten PHP to death (or is it life)... let's look at the client-side of things... your options are Javascript, Flash, Java, and last but certainly not least, AJAX.



Why not least? Well, if you've used GMail, Yahoo Maps, NetFlix, Traffic.com or (ahem) Yahoo Answers, then you've already got a pretty good idea of what AJAX can do to make a site dynamic. It's really more of a technique than a language... it's all about using some of the COM object capabilities of JavaScript-enabled browsers to talk to an AJAX-aware server technology (PHP can do this), typically with data formatted as XML.



Did I say "finally" before? Oops. One last PHP-related thought. The lanugage has a bad rep in some circles because it's TOO easy to learn... it becomes quite simple to end up with a mess of spaghetti code if you're not careful. A great way to start would be with unit testing and self-documenting code, using these two free utilities...



Unit Testing with SimpleTest

http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php



PHPDocumentor

http://www.phpdoc.org/



And one of the best all-around development environments for PHP (and then some), ActiveState Komodo (if you don't need live debugging, it's free)...

http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_edit/

Answer 6

I definitely wouldn't try to write your own blog software. There are too many pre-written blog modules out there already. Check here for a list of some of the many available:



http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm



Most of them use PHP/MySQL. I would choose the languages according to whatever the blog software you choose uses.



In general you are looking at PHP, SQL(for mySQL), and javascript.



#

Answer 7

which technology you use depends on what you want the site to do. for example, if you just want static pages, learn HTML and use notepad to code it or if you want dynamic pages linked to a database, you could learn PHP and mySQL although HTML is always what the browser renders unless you use a graphics based site such as Macromedia flash

Answer 8

Prolly the best things to know are html, javascript, and css. Here is where I learned all of this stuff and more: w3schools.com

Answer 9

PHP is very easy to pick-up if you have any kind of programming background. I would imagine you could be up and running in just a weekend if you wanted to.

Answer 10

You should understand how the web works and good knowledge of html css javascript would help a lot..



Try blogging first and then move over to a web site... it would help



http://www.theedifier.com/blogging-blogger/

Answer 11

html & javascript is the most basic ones and is supported in every browser. Start from there.

Answer 12

You should get macromedia Flash, is hard to use at first, but after the next minute or so, it will be a piece of cake.

Answer 13

xtml, javascript and css are all used, you can find tutorials online.

Answer 14

www.webdesigning.co.nr