Need help on web architecture 2

[dianne001]

I am new to the web development world. Our company purchased visual studio.net and sent me to training. Have not developed anything yet. Now the company want's to create a web based application using the apache as the web server on a linux box with novell.
From what I have read it appears that the visual studoi.net tools is scrap. If I am wrong please let me know.

I would like to know what is the best way to go about creating this web application, which language should be used, what training, what are the pieces(software/hardware) that need to be identified, what editor is best for coding. I'm at a loss at this point.
Please help.
Thanks,
Dianne001

 

[sleipnir214]

If you're running Apache on Linux, .Net isn't going to be of that much use. There is the Mono project which is an open-source .Net implementation, but I do not know how well along it is.

The most popular languages for web programming on Linux are probably PHP, perl, and python. My personal preference is PHP.



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[RhythmAce]

I'd like to give an amen to brother sleipnir's php suggestion. Here is a site that has tons of free php scripts to help you learn php programming

http://php.resourceindex.com

If you opt for perl/cgi, you may also be interested in

http://cgi.resourceindex.com.

Both use just plain text editors.