Where to start

Ok I'm looking for help, guidance and general advice here.

I've just purchased myself a new domain name and I'm looking to build myself a website.

After spending most of the day searching, googling and researching I've found a somewhere that might suit my needs for web hosting Profuse.

I'm not looking for anything fancy without all the bells and whistle. This is just going to be family website which I might use for my screen shot and comments etc.

There is a a lot things a don't know, like what CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby are. I was hoping to use something like Nvu which seems to very easy to start with. I would then just up load the file to the website.

Do I really have to learn all these CGI's and PHP things before I can start?

Do I need worry about what browser I use and other are going to use?

What pit falls should I really avoid?

I know this is going to be a very steep learning curve but I'm sure it will be fun.

Cheers

#445478

If you stick to HTML and CSS, the learning curve isn't so bad. You don't have to learn what CGI and PHP are before you start. Unless you're doing a really complex site, cross-browser compatibility shouldn't be a problem.

Anything I missed? Glad I can help.

-NC

#445849

How about WordPress? You just need to mainly know CSS (correct me if I'm wrong) and a few other things. A lot of people use it too (i.e Adam Betts, Brian Zeitler)

#445850

Actually, unless you plan to modify one of them 500,000 WP themes, you don't need to know anything besides how to upload files to your server. :-) HTML, CSS is the major building blocks of the web today. Then you have PHP(because its free and easy to use) then ASP(witch is hard and costly) I'd get yourslef a copy of DreamWeaver(legally) and download WP. WP offers plugins for online store fronts, CMS, audio/videa plugins, secutiy features, member only features and much much more

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