Need a bit of advise on starting my own website

[IanF]

I was told that mybroadband.co.za frontend is wordpress. That is one of the biggest websites in SA. I looked at it that is true.

[polpak]

Self found most useful the pages at http://www.w3.org/


Whether professional or amateur, their pages help you write. test, validate the
range of pages, styles and content, or just keep an eye on changes.

http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/HTML

http://validator.w3.org/

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

http://www.w3.org/2009/cheatsheet/

The w3 Site Map :

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/siteind...l#technologies


Some things not defined by the W3C specifications, HTML5 so also look elsewhere.

http://html5test.com/



Writing pages a bit more involved these days.

Also did not consider MS-W, as believe most in business busy trying to remain afloat, save their budgets, and
are discovering the benefits with open source, particularly when free, options.


BTW always are times when some money spent with experts saves a lot more.

[Mitos]

Good advice by everyone....you can practice on your own local home server by installing "Xampp or Wamp" s/w.
Server simulation for HTML, CSS, Joomla, WP, PHP or any other web development S/W.

[Wiz]

I was under the impression you needed html & css to design a web page.

You can even opt for WordPress. There are lots of eCommerce themes which you can easily choose and modify with hell lots of plugins available for customization.
If you choose a cpanel hosting then you don't even need to have a html or css knowledge. I would definately urge you to try out wordpress you won't regret it.

One click install and many other awesome features.

[polpak]

IF only starting learn how to write a web page, wish NOT be connected,
then start with a plain text editor (Notepad, gedit) and your browser.



Less help, while you know is your own mistake, also
watch your pages change when you refresh/reload them.

BTW current plain text editors now with helper apps to look for errors, make different parts easier to recognize.


There is an entire world of help out there :-)
with documents and packages you can download and try,
until you find one suits yourself.


Example, where can collect some help :

http://it-ebooks.info/tag/html/


Do NOT forget help here:
http://www.theforumsa.co.za/articles...ategory/33-CMS




IF with reasonable connection try the HTML Tutorial - (HTML5 Compliant)
at http://www.w3schools.com/html/

See down bottom of page the: Top 10 Tutorials

[Wiz]

IF only starting learn how to write a web page, wish NOT be connected,
then start with a plain text editor (Notepad, gedit) and your browser.



Less help, while you know is your own mistake, also
watch your pages change when you refresh/reload them.

BTW current plain text editors now with helper apps to look for errors, make different parts easier to recognize.


There is an entire world of help out there :-)
with documents and packages you can download and try,
until you find one suits yourself.


Example, where can collect some help :

http://it-ebooks.info/tag/html/


Do NOT forget help here:
http://www.theforumsa.co.za/articles...ategory/33-CMS




IF with reasonable connection try the HTML Tutorial - (HTML5 Compliant)
at http://www.w3schools.com/html/

See down bottom of page the: Top 10 Tutorials

This can be followed as well. If you wanna learn coding stuff then this the above post will prove very helpful.

[dannyl]

Hi,

If you are completely new to website building I would go with a Wordpress based site. Most hosting companies provide this free of charge and there are many themes and plugins to make life easier for you rather than having to learn coding from scratch.
Thanks,
Dan