I remember back in the days when all you needed was to know HTML. What are the most basic things you need to know to make a site both effective and eyecatching, beyond basic html.
graphics, css and serverside scripting imo u may want to add clientside scripting... but imho its not always necessary
in addition cause i'm bored... its probably better to use xhtml these days than straight html... makesure its validated and wellformed tho i'd personally choose php as a serverside languade... its fast, easy to learn, powerful and well documented altho the other main choices are perl, asp, jsp and coldfusion graphics is usually photoshop stuff css is essential these days... get a good source that tells u about browser compatibility.... implementation is patchy in places and doesn't adere to w3's guidlines most ppl use javascript and DOM (document object model) for clientside scripting / dhtml ... i don't like vbscript ones much... and badly written javascript really annoys me... especially when it crashes non-ie browsers very bad show links to everything i talked about in the useful linkage thread that should keep u busy for a while
thx, I have a summer comming up, si I thought I might finnally update my aircadets ebpage(been three years) as well as make my own running of my network(got cable)
I would go with PHP as a server side scripting language as well, if you are going to use that. I know ASP, Perl, and PHP. I am learning cfm. PHP is by far the easiest to learn and use. And it has great documentation.
Perl is my favorite for CGI scripting, but I perfer ASP for other web functions... The only problem I've been finding lately, is that with dynamic pages, it is harder to search them, due to them not really existing until you make them. Anyone have a good way to create dynamic pages searchable? (I should probably start another thread) Right now, due to server limitations, I'm using notepad for html, and server side includes... no fancy scripting going on here.... (and photoshop! couldn't live w/o it) -OneSeventeen GoAhead
What is your dynamic content generated from? A database or some such, or some static files... ? It's really dependant on that, before you can attack searching properly Basically in all cases though, you don't search the finished dynamic page, but insted the data source(s) from which the dynamic page was generated from.
err unless of course u mean search engines like altavista and the such... in which case there are two articles at www.phpbuilder.com .... they're php specific but might be able to be extended to pl
