Web Design

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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So I want to get into Web Design, I was reading up on it, and noticed I'd need knowledge of C and good Photoshop skills.

Anything else?


I plan on teaching myself, opposed to taking a class or something.


I'd want to start of basic, so simple text and picture sites, then move onto flash based sites.



If I built pages for businesses, how would the process of hosting it happen? Like, I make the site, and set up a hosting account on a domain?

Any help would be great, thanks.
 
For the photoshop parts no. Some understanding of html helps, I dont know much but im learning more as ive been doing this site. I use frontpage to edit with. For a beginner it is a lot more user friendly than dreamweaver. Dreamweaver has more potential but its very much geared towards people with a more solid knowledge of html.
 
you will need to know the following things, also note that any good website is backed by a database of some sort.

PHP
HTML
Java scripting
CSS
MySQL
Flash (if you want to get fancy)
CMS
tagging

Design aspect:

Photoshop
Illustrator

You have a mac right? I wrote a shell script that makes HTML page templates with a time and date stamp, if you want it I can post it.
 
You don't need to know C programming for web design. For the real basics you only need to know is HTML, however knowing PHP, Java, MySQL, etc is a big plus.
 
Ok,

first off go here and download a free text editor called textwrangler, you'll thank me later for recommending it to you.

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.shtml

Now, here goes the code for the script.

Code: 
#!/bin/bash

# make_page - A script to produce an HTML file 
# that has a date stamp

RIGHT_NOW=$(date +"%x %r %Z")
TIME_STAMP="Updated on $RIGHT_NOW by $USER"

cat << EOF
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
        <TITLE>
    
        </TITLE>
    </HEAD>

    <BODY>
    <P>$TIME_STAMP</p>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>
EOF

copy and paste the code into textwrangler and save it as makehtml.sh and toss it in your documents folder or what not.

Now there are a couple of ways you can run the script. The easiest way is to open up textwrangler and use the run script option and then point it to the script, and it will run. Or from the terminal you can do this code:
Code: 
sh /path/to/where/you/saved/script | open -t -a "textwrangler.app"

To automate it even more you can make an apple script to run the shell script from with in OS X.

would be something like this...
Code: 
tell application terminal.app

do shell script /path/to/script

end tell
 
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