Can someone point me in the direction of what are the best/core languages to use to design a good looking and functional website? ie html/java/c ++ etc . . .? I want to learn all the languages and do it myself. I really have no idea about any of that stuff. I have avoided it for a while, but it looks like I might need to pick up this skillset at this point in time.
Check out frontpage and dreamweaver.
I think the best is WordPress. It is powerful and free, most internet hosts can automatically install it for you. I was able to create a blog and websites very easily with no prior experience.
Dreamweaver is the best, if your content is static then you’ll easily get away with only using the GUI to design most of it’s parts. Also, learning it is fun, but it’s a bit costly software, not advised unless you plan to build a huuuge website or create many websites! All the web based page design web services will constrain you into a(few) web template(s), that’s good when you don’t give a damn about ‘coolness’ of your website structure. Anyway, it’s good to learn Dreamweaver if you are interested in doing some smalltime (or even large) Internet entrepreneurship, you don’t know when you hit upon a good Internet business idea which need little web design and can possibly earn you hundred of thousands of dollars while working on your job, but the pain of finding a designer and getting it designed will derail your exciting plans. Believe me it happens, but if you have no such ambitions, then just leave it and better keep yourself to blogs! btw, HTML is pretty much like english and so is javascript, which is vastly different from Java (which you won’t need probably), and C++ is not really used in web design. Still, what you need to learn as hobbyist web designer (for fun maybe) is HTML/Javascript/CSS/XML/XSLT/PHP, in order of need, and all these are really really simple languages. Or you might skip all these and try something in OpenSource like Joomla, but I don’t think you will find Dreamweaver supporting it.
There is nothing simple about javascript. In reality javascript is one of the most powerful language with full support for closures, passing functions as pointers and other nice goodies (including polymorphism and other oo concepts)
cool - thanks for the help
Second vote for dreamweaver, you can keep it simple or go [nearly] as complex as you want to go. WordPress is really more a blog publishing application, not a programming language or suitable for many types of webpage design. I agree that it’s excellent for blogs (my own blog used it, when I had one), but it’s not versatile enough for many applications. Get some of the “for dummies” or “missing manual” series on dreamweaver, learn the basics. If you want to learn how to actually code specific stuff instead of using the GUI, you can do that too, but you are looking at a very serious skill set that’ll take time. I’d also suggest pestering comp_sci_kid if you want more help. He’s probably got one of the more tech-intensive resumes on the forum.
Website design is all about trial and error. I’ve created a few websites from scratch that have been fairly simplistic but it took a lot of time getting everything to look right. What looks good in IE may look like shite in Firefox or Safari.
iWeb is super easy for basic stuff. There are people who design great sites so cheap that sometimes it is easier to just pay and have it done asap. I’ve messed around with it but like the dood said, it is trial and error and can eat up a lot of time.
comp_sci_kid Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is nothing simple about javascript. > > In reality javascript is one of the most powerful > language with full support for closures, passing > functions as pointers and other nice goodies > (including polymorphism and other oo concepts) Agree, but I don’t think he would need that much, as far as static content and structure is concerned for a simple and clean website, it’s easy!
did this ever workout?
Stupid Dreamweaver. Kids use it.
no - it just made me realize how much I hate programming lol
Does anyone have a link to good step by step instructions on building a website? Or a book that goes through the entire process start to finish?
ive messed around with html/css/js but I still have trouble piecing everything together.
I’d like to have logins for users, links to other social media (most sites use a very similar template for this), and links to a few documents on the server.
next step would be adding a cart and paypal or something similar, with https encryption
Is it even worth knowing how to do this anymore, or are rates so low to have someone else manage it that most people just hire a web designer to create the whole thing?
I feel like building a website is like hanging drywall these days, low value add trade. Hire someone and concentrate on the content.
You can try a web development framework like django, ruby on rails or some java one , these more mature frameworks already have a lot o things available on the net, so creating an admin area and adding a secure cart is almost a matter of configuration
You can try a web development framework like django, ruby on rails or some java one , these more mature frameworks already have a lot o things available on the net, so creating an admin area and adding a secure cart is almost a matter of configuration
WordPress.