New to web development!

[DIJohnRebus]

Hi all,

I have little to no knowledge of web development but need to create myself a standard advertisement page of services offered to post on a local BBS i.e. craigslist.

I don't want to hire a a friend and would rather run with this myself. My background is MIS (as you can tell) so, the ability to self educate is there.

Any info on where to start; software, publications, forums, 3rd party info would be highly appreciated.

Many thank,

J

 

[Vragabond]

Decide what part of web development you want to do. Only frontend stuff, or backend as well, focus only on structure (css&html), client interactivity (javascript) or server-side technologies. Or all of them.

If you go the server-side way, then choose one of many language/database combinations available to you.

After you're done with choosing what you want, start learning about it. I would suggest you take on a private project and back it with learning from books and high quality online sources.

But before you make a decision what part of web development you wish to learn, we cannot make any suggestions.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If you want to create a simple page with data on, then you need to either:

- Learn some basic HTML and CSS,

- Find a WYSIWYG package such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage,

- Get a friend to do it for you

Hope this helps,
Dan





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[spamjim]

Find a WYSIWYG package such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage

Don't look for FrontPage. It is discontinued, and rightly so.

 

[BigRed1212]

If you are making a more or less one time thing to get business you need it to look good and you need it to work.

I would resist the urge to do it yourself and to roll your own and go ahead and put your best foot forward by having somebody who knows what the h they are doing do it for you.

Better investement of time and energy.

If you want to learn Web development, you should (it's fun!) but for this purpose, farm it out to get it up and running and learn later.

 

[DIJohnRebus]

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated..

I agree with you bigred in a sense that I have a purpose at the moment and that is to get something up and running (and of course looks professional) so, I might have 3rd party help after all, however I'd like to use the situation to catapult a new learning experience as well.

I picked up some material from the book store circulating around basic understanding of HTML, XHTML, and CSS. I've started with that, it doesn't seem so nightmarish yet and it's pretty exciting. I'm sure I'll be posting back with many questions about my experience and finding sooner or later, thanks again everyone!

 

[PaulBricker]

http://www.w3schools.com/

has great online tutorials for beginners. It's a good place for anyone to learn.

Paul