King RA

Here's a question for all you web gurus out there. I need to build a website for a company I'm going to start but know very little on the subject. I wasnt to use this as an opportunity to learn how to do this, so my question is what what about this would you recommend?? Shall I learn dreamweaver, CSS, php e.t.c. I understand nothing of these but want to learn the 'best' one so that I may use my skills elsewhere.

Thanks for you help,

King RA.

King RA

soz for poor grammar but I can't edit for some reason!

darlodge

I've been building my own site over the last few months. I knew absolutly nothing about web design HTML etc. the same as you really. HTML and CSS would be fine for what you are looking to do.

I really strugled with the 'design' of the site so I downloaded a web template from here and then ammended it to suit me. Its far easier to see what is going on when you have a design already done.

I used Dreamweaver *cough * *cough *and Firefox with the WEB developers tool bar. The toolbar is a god send as you can edit the style sheet (css) and see instantly what happens and the change the actual css and upload.

There is still loads I don't know but I'm glad I decided to give it a go.

Darren

Dream Weaver

Learn raw HTML to start off with.

darlodge

I must admit, I did all my coding in notepad and then FTP'd using WSFTP. Only after the coding was done did I find Dreamweaver. The uploading with dreamweaver is sooooo much easier.

Darren

King RA

HTML it is then

RichB

Why bother, there are plenty of brilliant web designers on here who will do whatever you want for 50p and a bag of nuts!

mattbeef

its pointless doing it in pure HTML now, why do you think so many people use Dreamweaver etc

Dream Weaver

But its still good to know the underlying HTML Its the foundation of any good website so needs to be learnt.

I could build a site quicker in notepad using plain HTML than most could do it visually in Dreamweaver

RichB

I'm with DW on this one
DW is ok but there are plenty of browser wierdyness that you have to understand what it is generating in order to fix it. DW (the software ) is OK for the hobby site builder though IMHO....

King RA

I've just got a few o'reilly ebooks about learning XHTML and CSS, the books say it's best learning them both at the same time. Thanks for your help and I completely understand learning the underlying principles 1st.