Learning the trade!
I've recently been involved in setting up a new website at http://www.smartbids.co.uk , the scripts were all purchased from someone else, nevertheless I've been bitten by the bug and would like to learn much more about developing websites, with the long term objective of turning it into a career.
Can anyone give me some pointers, where do I start? Are there any good training courses/qualifications out there (I'm based in the UK)?
I have some programming experience in C, C++ and VB. What would be easiest/best for me to learn: Perl, ASP or Javascript?
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. If you have the time I'd appreciate some feedback on the site as well.
The Webmistress posted this at 12:11 — 12th September 2002.
She has: 5,586 posts
Joined: Feb 2001
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
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 12:15 — 12th September 2002.
He has: 3,348 posts
Joined: Jul 2001
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
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