I want to create my own website...

[ThePlague]

By scratch. How do I do it, what programming should I learn to do it with, and what do I need? I already have a domain, and I have a slight knowledge in html. Other than that I have no knowledge of prgramming. I want to make a site that I can use for pictures and video. My WordPress blog isn't good enough anymore.

[annihilation]

HTML should be fine.
Or do you want it all flashy and nice?

[ThePlague]

Alright. I want it flashy.

[annihilation]

Then try PHP or CSS.

[ThePlague]

Are there any good tutorials for any that you know of?

[p0lar_bear]

Do you know what you're on about annhihilation?

Plague, first things first: learn and know the fundamentals of HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and CSS 2. If you don't know those three things, you're not doing anything with web design.

http://www.w3schools.com/ Read the tutorials and bookmark the references; it'll help immensely.

As for scripting, you look into that if you need to make web apps or dynamic things like CMSes or forums, and after you know what you're doing with HTML and CSS. PHP is fairly popular since it goes hand in hand with *nix servers and Apache, but there's also ASP (for Windows servers) and ColdFusion.

[ThePlague]

I don't see any HTML 4, is 5 what you meant?

[sdavis117]

XHTML = HTML4 (basically, there are some differences).

[ThePlague]

Okay, thanks. The HTML5 stuff is pretty awesome too.

[Cojafoji]

If you're gonna build a site from scratch, make sure you use XHTML for now, and wait until HTML 5 is totally finished. You never know what they'll remove, or add. Plus XHTML 1.0 Strict is literally what HTML 5 is now, minus a couple of things. Also make sure, for the love of god, to use CSS sheets. Other than that, don't develop for IE6, avoid tables, love floats & divs. Embrace the div. Like polar said, w3schools.com is a great site. If you ever pick up php, don't forget that http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php has tons of examples on uses of functions. Don't be afraid to use sites that you know and love for pointers/ideas, though wholesale theft of markup is weak sauce for the loss. oh, and validate early and often :D

[sdavis117]

Yeah, wait on learning HTML 5. It may be awesome (they recently wrote Quake 2 using HTML 5 to prove how powerful it is), but there are two HTML 5 standards floating around right now. Wait till one of them kills the other.

[p0lar_bear]

XHTML = HTML4 (basically, there are some differences).

Basically, XHTML is XML with an HTML vocabulary. There's nifty shit you can pull off with XHTML that you can't with HTML, but that's like, advanced stuff, so yeah, for the average person, XHTML and HTML 4.01 are more or less the same.

[Kalub]

Here is a hint, learn to code your page without any inline formatting. Use CSS style sheets to control that. Not only does it make your life easier changing pages or appearance, but it looks nicer. And if you really are serious I would recommend a editor like Notepad++ or SciTE the really make it a lot easier. Here is a link to a ton of relevant and often updated list of tutorials.

http://good-tutorials.com/tutorials/html

[Cojafoji]

Holy shit. I haven't been to that site since 2003. I had no idea it was still around lol.

[Kalub]

It is awesome :D



Every now and then you can stumble onto a full guide pretty much telling you everything to convert a PSD idea into a viable page that you can implement with HTML or PHP.

[Cojafoji]

Every now and then you can stumble onto a full guide pretty much telling you everything to convert a PSD idea into a viable page that you can implement with HTML or PHP.
Mmmm damn. I haven't done a slice n' dice in a long time. Great way to build a quick site though.

[Kalub]

Quick and Easy

[ThePlague]

Thanks everyone. After this week i'll start reading up and learning some :)