Hi All. . . Advice Required

Juggernaut posted this at 07:31 — 5th August 2006.

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Hi there,
I am looking to design a site someday, but will need to learn many things first. I want to design a site that has functionality and don't know which programming skills would be best. I know Dreamweaver would be a good start for the design, but what do I compliment that with? Java? Visual Basic? C++? PHP? I don't know the differences, do I need them all or is one the best? Any suggestions for a good all around approach to learning this stuff greatly appreciated?

Thanks

andy206uk posted this at 00:34 — 6th August 2006.

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Hi,

To build websites you only need to learn two things: XHTML (eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language) & CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). For added functionality you could learn Javascript which is a client side technology (is run in the browser), and for server side code you could learn PHP, ASP or any one of a number of things.

Personally I would say start with XHTML and CSS and build from there.

Andy

demonhale posted this at 03:48 — 6th August 2006.

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Yup, you need to start somewhere, and xhtml and css are good starting points... you can build sites if you learn them first, and when the need arise for scripting either server-side, or user-side then that would be the time to delve into javascript, php and asp... be patient though...