Building a web site

waynestledger

Hi all

I will be doing a Fetac level 6 Web design course in the coming weeks.
My aim is to be able to make sites from scratch from information sites,
e-commerce sites, to membership sites.

My questions is:

1. What would be the best software to use? i want something that most web developers uses so if i need help it might be easy to get if others are using it.

Please if anybody has anything to say dont hesitate to say it as long as it is postive feedback. (i dont want people telling me i cant do it or dont do it) it has been something i always wanted to do and have learned bits over the last few years.

Thanks again for any help
Wayne

Webmonkey

Start doing it in some notepad editor at the begining and actually learn HTML/CSS without having it done for you (badly probably) by software.

There are plenty tutorials on w3 schools. http://www.w3schools.com/

Essien

As Webmonkey said, start off with a basic text editor (like Notepad++) to learn the basics.

I jumped straight into dreamweaver as soon as I got my hands on a copy and found eventually that it was making me take way too many shortcuts and miss some real basic stuff that I should be learning first time round.

So yeah, use a text editor first so you understand the fundamentals.

supermonkey

HTML
followed by Wordpress which leads to
PHP and MYSQL

JavaBeans

Webmonkey wrote: »

Start doing it in some notepad editor at the begining and actually learn HTML/CSS without having it done for you (badly probably) by software.

There are plenty tutorials on w3 schools. http://www.w3schools.com/

awesome site there, anything similar for java you are aware of, thanks

Joneser

JavaBeans wrote: »

awesome site there, anything similar for java you are aware of, thanks

For Java you can take a look at http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ . Not quite the level of the w3 site but can be very handy to help you pick up the language.

tricky D

@OP In relation to the course you are doing, bear in mind that layout and typography are largely handled using CSS and divs these days as opposed to tables, frames and in page fonts. The www.w3schools.com tutorials will cover that end of the coding for you.

murphaph

I use Programmers Notepad as a basic text editor instead of Notepad++.

Reamer Fanny

I use Notepad++ for HTML coding and programming