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Web design for noobs

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  • 13-06-2012 11:58pm
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    Crann na Beatha
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    SweetCaliber
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    If your looking for basic PHP tutorials:

    http://phpeasystep.com

    http://tizag.com

    Tizag also include both CSS and HTML tutorials.

    http://w3schools.com

    W3Schools is also excellent for JavaScript, CSS and HTML tutorials.

    Also a quick search of Google for tutorials is also a great resource!

    Also one thing I will warn you about is security. Make sure you trust your hosting provider and that all your code is safe for execution by the server.

    Take your time when writing code and relax, it's a learn as you go course so it will take some time to get used to.

    I feel the best way to learn is by videos on YouTube. This is how I learned and now I'm a master at it. Look out for the YouTube user thenewboston and the YouTube user phpacademy both are excellent With their tutorials and are very straightforward.

    If you need any other help don't hesitate to PM me, I'll be happy to help!

    Hope that helps and good luck!


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    Mister Man
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    Lynda.com have a decent starting course for coding, but it's a paid user thing.

    thenewboston YouTube channel has 200 videos on beginners PHP - It's a great course, each video teaches you one thing at a time.

    W3Schools.com has HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Javascript, and the list goes on and on! It's a great site, although I personally find videos easier to learn from.

    You'll want to start out by learning HTML and CSS. It's really easy to pick up. I believe I originally learnt it from w3schools.com but I'm pretty sure you can find a great set of videos on YouTube for it.

    Heres the YouTube channel links:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy
    http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston


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    Crann na Beatha
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    tricky D
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    It depends what you want your website to do. You might not need to learn up on html, css, php etc. if something like WordPress will do the job for you. If you plan on doing more than 1 website, then learning from the links already posted would be a good idea.


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    megaten
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    If you want to just do your own website all you really need is html/css.
    Then you can just use a CMS like wordpress annd buy a theme you like. Some themes are much more beginner-friendly though.


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    Trojan
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    If you're just building your own site you really don't need to learn HTML/CSS - it can be useful to know a bit, but it's not essential to building the site.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



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    donalg1
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    Aquila wrote: »
    What advice/help can you give to someone who wants to create their own website?

    I used w3schools' HTML and CSS tutorials and Notepad++ to practice on, you would be surprised how quick you pick it up but as others have said take your time and it will come easy enough to you.


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    Feathers
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    Aquila wrote: »
    What advice/help can you give to someone who wants to create their own website?

    Well leading on from the amount of info given, the advice I would give to someone is:
    1. Decide what the website is going to be about: Why do you want to have a website — is it to promote a business, interest group, blog/diary. Who are your target readers/users/buyers — why will bring them to your site rather than other similar sites out there.
    2. Decide how much effort you want to put into learning web-design/development: This can be anywhere from no effort at all (you might just want to promote your content), to using this as the start of a career in it.
    3. Decide how much time you can dedicate to the site: Is this going to be a hobby, updated weekly or monthly? Or are you going to put in a fews hours a day. How will that break down into content/promotion/development.
    4. Decide whether you want to host it under its own domain: Do you want an Irish presence, or global? Would you be happy with something on Google sites/Wordpress.com/Facebook, or do you want a dedicated address for it. Maybe you could start on a free hosting & gauge popularity before putting effort into hosting, etc.

    Once you have the answers to those worked out in your own head, this should give you a million, more-specific questions. When you have those, come back to me ;)


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