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30-03-2007, 12:11
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New website help
I am planning to build a website of my own.Just wanted to have ur opinion on it.I am yet in the deciding stage on what do i use to build my website.. I work as a web programmer so i have a bit knowledge in every area. I though of creating my website in .net using visual studio but then felt like i would be costly and its not free...then java which is fine...html or css... What would be the best way which will cost me very less in maintaining my site.. please help |
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30-03-2007, 13:54
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what sarah said
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Honestly it really depends on what you want to put on your site, but in general use XHTML and CSS to build it. What are you planning to use your site for? .net and visual studio? man I either missed the train or no one should ever use that lol... |
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30-03-2007, 14:14
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I have already suggested that you learn xhtml and css because they are your base requirements for web design. New website opinion thread It depends on what you want your website to do as to whether you need to use any server languages. If you tell us what you want your website to do then it'll be easier to advise you and point you towards cheaper solutions. |
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30-03-2007, 14:19
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thanks...I have plans of starting my personal website and improve it piece by piece....like forums...and later start ecommerce too....what other options do we have other then css,xhtml... any best books for this??????? Would u please let me know why we should not use visual studio???Just curious... And would it be a good option for web hosting??????please let me know any populars or good web hosting sites... Last edited by sureshv : 30-03-2007 at 14:51. |
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30-03-2007, 14:59
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Ok, whether or not you're going to have any dynamic contents generated from a program or script you'll need to use xhtml to write the contents of the page and then css to apply style to your page. I'd think hard about whether you want a forum for your website because it's quite time consuming to maintain and without a lot of members it's not likely to be an asset to your website. If you want a forum though, I recommend PHPBB as a good free open source one that you could install on your server. It might be better to have a blog / news page where you can write posts that are archived and have people comment about them. A good open source blog program is Wordpress. Or if you wanted to embed your blog into a web page you could try The Embed Blog that I am currently developing (it's free open source software as well). Shameless self promotion I know  .Quote:
Although if you want some books to learn about web standards try these: Amazon.com: Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition): Books: Jeffrey Zeldman Amazon.com: Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series): Books: Dan Cederholm Quote:
I've never tried Visual Studio so I can't tell you what's right or wrong with it apart from the fact this it costs a lot of money for the full version. When there are so many free open source solutions available I don't see the point in paying any money to further increase Bill Gate's wealth. |
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30-03-2007, 15:11
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Thanks a lot for ur reply... i have a better understanding with xhtml and css...Do u use the text editor to develop ur pages or any other software for xhtml and css... and what database would be better in this case... Can ecommerce be implemented with just xhtml and css... And would it be a good option for web hosting??????please let me know any populars or good web hosting sites... Thanks in advance... |
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30-03-2007, 15:43
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hello
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That ecommerce is probably built with php/mysql, a 101% chance I think. Its styling and layout IS done in xhtml/css though (101% chance). For other things you can still use (x)html. A very good and safe webhoster is (mt) Media Temple, but that one's expensive though.. |
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30-03-2007, 18:55
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Actually, it depends on how you want to sell things on your website. If you are happy using PayPal to handle your transactions then your website doesn't need to contain any script. This is because it passes the data to PayPal and their scripts process the requests and allow your customers to purchase things. Quote:
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