web develop newbie

[Win2kMan]

Hi....I really want to learn more stuff about web design.
I just got a couple of questions !

1. how did you learn HTML, PHP and building a website in general.

2. any good books you recommend?

3. where should I start?

4. what are some of the programs you use to build your websites??

thanks

[DocEvi1]

look on these pages:
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=116481
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=114913
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112741
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111102
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111474
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109975
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110164
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109158
....

essentially just look through old posts here.

Stefan

[Baddog]

Front Page was easy for me about MS Word

[AllGamer]

i like Macromedia, and Front Page XP

[Quandary]

For CSS and HTML 4, I would recommend the following links:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/

As for a program to write webpages, Notepad is all you really need ;)

I myself prefer using either dreamweaver or a plain text editor (textpad, http://www.textpad.com)

-- Quandary

[rick42]

I agree with quandary.:)

For my editor though, I use a vi look alike.

[bubbagumpshrimp]

well, u could use programs like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Adobe Go Live! 7, but all of these r expensive programs, thats y i reccomend wat i did, u buy a book r 2, (prefferably by O'Reilly) and then u learn the html syntax and start making webpages in notepad textpad r watever text program u use, i use notepad, but everyone has different ways to do things, good luck!

[ironik311]

I bought a book called "teach yourself web publishing with HTML 4" from Sams (http://www.samspublishing.com) publishing. It had everything you'd ever need to know about html and css.

You can find what ever you want to know on the web... for free. Use a search engine like google and you'll find plenty of free tutorials.

If you start using a WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) to start off with then you won't get a full appreciation of what the editor is actually doing behind the scenes. Some editors put in expansive, unecessary code for what should be simple operations.

[Braiii]

I recommend staying away from developing in FrontPage if you want to get anywhere in a developing career, try Macromedia Dreamweaver MX - The Dreamweaver/Ultradev series has become the industry standard over the past few years.

Rob - CodeSilence.com

[AndyWhitt]

Check out this page for some good links, http://www.coolchip-computers.co.uk/theshed/ViewPost.php?postID=108&forumID=18

Also the best Windows based PHP, HTML text editor is EditPlus 2 (http://www.editplus.com/).

Andy

http://www.coolchip-computers.co.uk/theshed/