Abhishek Reddy — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:15:29 +0000

Welcome to TWF, micko.

I'm assuming you're not familiar with HTML here...

The first thing to mention is that there's broadly two possible parts to a website. They are "client-side" and "server-side" code.

Client-side code is what happens at the user's end, in the browser. This can be HTML and CSS code to affect the display of information on a webpage, or embedded Javascript to add some interactivity like image mouseovers and navigation effects (menus, buttons...).

Server-side code is ASP, PHP, and databases. Server-side scripts are run on the server itself, so you can create super-interactive webpages. You can create security scripts (user/password), communities (forums like TWF ) etc. Databases on the server can be used by server-side scripts to store info.

With server-side code, ASP uses a VB-style language, VBScript, to do its stuff, while PHP uses a C-style language for its code. I prefer PHP.

Generally, it'd be a good idea to start with client-side stuff like HTML to learn the basics. Since you have programming experience, you should find the step up from HTML/javascript to PHP, ASP, or CGI quite easy.

A few tutorial sites:
HTML-
http://www.webmasterbase.com
http://www.pageresource.com
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/

PHP-
http://www.webmasterbase.com
http://www.phpbuilder.com
http://www.php.net/manual/en

The Webmistress — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:11:46 +0000

Welcome to TWF Micko :wave:

Why not stop by the introductions forum and tell us a bit more about yourself on a peronsal level, like where you are from.

If you would like your site reviewed then please post it in the critique forum once you have reviewed some of the other sites there as per the rules of that section.

As for wher is best to start, I would say you have done that already by creating your site and taken the best next step of joining TWF! You'll find lots of helpful threads here and many links to online tutorials etc.

Good luck