I've gotten some pretty basic stuff down. I can make a web site look pretty, but it has little or no functionality. I would like to start learning to add things like forums and email, or a "contact us" section. I just need to learn how to do it. PHP? Javascript? What do I need to learn/do? I guess PHP and js would be a good start... The visuals on the site look fantastic, but that's all it is... visuals.
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PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, ASP are all going to be good choices. It really depends on what your long term intention is going to be. I prefer perl for web development. PHP and Ruby on Rails are the current hot web languages.
--Kevin
The visuals on the site look fantastic, but that's all it is... visuals.
That's correct. If you have been working with HTML and CSS, you have learned the technologies to create a web document. But functionality has to be programmed. All of this is done on the server, and is not visible at all to the person seeing the webpage.
There is no one way, one technology, or path to take when dealing with server side development. You must know one programming language, that is suitably used for web development. PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Perl, and more get used. I use Python mainly, but I worked before with PHP. Some people I know work with Ruby. This is a non trivial step here. You need to learn to program, at least to the level that you can do web development. That's still a pretty big learning curve.
So I'll stop here and tell you to pick a programming language. No one can make this decision for you, and it's not like a life decision either. If you don't like the language you are using, you can always pick another. PHP has a very low barrier of entry, but many people prefer using another language. Python and Ruby rose in popularity after PHP did, and they are now pretty good choices for beginners too.
There's more after learning a programming language, but one step at a time.
That's correct. If you have been working with HTML and CSS, you have learned the technologies to create a web document. But functionality has to be programmed. All of this is done on the server, and is not visible at all to the person seeing the webpage.
There is no one way, one technology, or path to take when dealing with server side development. You must know one programming language, that is suitably used for web development. PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Perl, and more get used. I use Python mainly, but I worked before with PHP. Some people I know work with Ruby. This is a non trivial step here. You need to learn to program, at least to the level that you can do web development. That's still a pretty big learning curve.
So I'll stop here and tell you to pick a programming language. No one can make this decision for you, and it's not like a life decision either. If you don't like the language you are using, you can always pick another. PHP has a very low barrier of entry, but many people prefer using another language. Python and Ruby rose in popularity after PHP did, and they are now pretty good choices for beginners too.
There's more after learning a programming language, but one step at a time.
I know a good amount of python. I guess I can use that...
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