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Article #484Re: General recommendation for someone who never built a site before
From: Stephen Poley
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:03
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:03
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On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:29:08 GMT, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote: >Quoth the raven named SpaceGirl: > >> ... You need to know client side scripting (JavaScript), server >> side scripting (ASP or PHP), ActionScript (Flash) on top of all the >> basics (HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML). This needs to be complimented >> with database skills. >It would be good to know all that, but not at the beginner level. > >BillP, start with HTML, then look at CSS (which SpaceGirl forgot), >then perhaps PHP if your server supports it. Forget the rest of the >above for now. I second Beauregard's comments. (Javascript and Flash for example have their uses, but are both overused on the Web. You can build good sites without either.) Following up to your original request and expanding on Neal's post: image slicing is another example of a technique which is overused and can best be left until later. All too often sites which use it are rigidly laid out, and look good only in windows of the same size that the author originally used. I'll just mention an HTML tutorial by Mark Tranchant which has been fairly thoroughly gone through on Usenet and which pays more attention to good practices than most tutorials: http://tranchant.plus.com/web/authoring (And I see Mark's CSS tutorial is starting to come along as well.) -- Stephen Poley http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/
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