What is the best web-designing language?

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chem3

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Hi,

I am a new beginner at this field (web designing) and I want to learn web designing, so what are the best and the most common-used web-designing languages to learn?
Are there any useful recommendations you can give me about how and from where to start? What does a web designer need to learn and know? Any useful websites that provide free tutorials on web designing?

And lastly, (excuse me if I seem stupid for asking the following question, but I am not so good in english) Is there any difference between web designing, web building and web developing?!

Thanks!
 
Well, the main language you WILL NEED to learn will be HTML (hyper text markup language), its pretty simple once you learn the basics and it is the most used for basic/generic web authoring.

If your going to be making interactive sites then you might want to learn JAVASCRIPT or get learning FLASH. Both of these are also pretty simple once you get going.

If your going to be running complex stock control and "real-time" web pages, then you will need to learn the various server scripting languages such as PERL and CGI and ASP.

As for websites that provide tutorials, try searching around www.google.co.uk for "free HTML tutorial" or such.

And your last question, the difference between web designing/building/developing...... they're all pretty much the same, just different names for the same job. As you can see in my post now i have called it web authoring, this again is the same as all the other names.


To recap:

You will need to learn the following languages: HTML JAVASCRIPT CGI PERL

They are the main ones.
 
Thank you all for your response

And I have another issue, please!

When professional Web-designers design Web-pages using some Web-designing language, do they use the elementary language and manually type its complex codes; you can open any Web-page and from menu bar in your browser select View > Source and the Web-page will appear in the Notepad with the elementary designing-language codes.
The question now is: Did the designer of that Web-page use the elementary designing-language codes and type them all manually using some word-processing program or did he use some assisting Web-designing program???

And IF professional Web-designers do use Web-designing programs for designing Web-pages (as I think) and not the simple elementary designing-language codes, then why don't they just learn and have command of Web-designing programs and softwares (which they use for designing Web-pages) without learning the complicated elementary designing-language (which they don't use for designing Web-pages)??!
 
Web designers, (of which I am an amateur one) usually code pages using a GUI designer such as Frontpage, NVU or Dreamweaver. These tools create the basic HTML in a rapid and easy fashion. You can create pages in notepad, but is is far easier to use one of those programs.

Amateurs may get away with using just these tools, but to know what is happening in the code, (especially if there is a problem), it is essential to know the HTML tags, their uses and syntax.

BTW, for web design work, you should have a good knowledge of HTML, javascript as well as either PHP or ASP.NET
 
Thank you all again

And this is really my last inquiry,

As you all know, each of the Web-designing languages has many versions, as an example of that let's take HTML, php and JavaScript:

HTML: there are HTML, HTML+, HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 2.0
php : there are PHP 3.0, PHP 4.0.6, PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.1.1, PHP 4.2.0, PHP 4.2.1, PHP 4.2.2, PHP 4.3.0, PHP 4.3.1, PHP 4.3.11, PHP 5.0.4 and PHP 5.1.0 Beta 2
JavaScript : there are JavaScript 1.0, JavaScript 1.1, JavaScript 1.2, JavaScript 1.3 and JavaScript 1.5
:confused:
What is the difference between one version and the other of the same language?
And as a fresh language-learner what version of a Web-designing language shall I start with? (Older>>>newer or learning just the latest version of a Web-designing language would cover all the previous versions of the same language???)

Sorry for disturbance!
 
PHP and JavaScript versions will include bug fixes and added functions. I consider HTML and XHTML to be standards (they aren't really languages)
 
They are languages but are so commonly used across the world on almost every single web page that it is just a standard.
 
chem3 said:
Thank you all again

And this is really my last inquiry,

As you all know, each of the Web-designing languages has many versions, as an example of that let's take HTML, php and JavaScript:

HTML: there are HTML, HTML+, HTML 2.0, HTML 3.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 2.0
php : there are PHP 3.0, PHP 4.0.6, PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.1.1, PHP 4.2.0, PHP 4.2.1, PHP 4.2.2, PHP 4.3.0, PHP 4.3.1, PHP 4.3.11, PHP 5.0.4 and PHP 5.1.0 Beta 2
JavaScript : there are JavaScript 1.0, JavaScript 1.1, JavaScript 1.2, JavaScript 1.3 and JavaScript 1.5
:confused:
What is the difference between one version and the other of the same language?
And as a fresh language-learner what version of a Web-designing language shall I start with? (Older>>>newer or learning just the latest version of a Web-designing language would cover all the previous versions of the same language???)

Sorry for disturbance!
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Start with the latest version of each languge, for example HTML 4.01, PHP 5.x, Javascript 1.5 etc. The higher numbers are just newer versions. New versions build upon and improve the older versions.

You will learn all the commands and syntax for the earlier versions as you learn. There is no need to start with HTML 1.0 and go on; just start with the latest.
 
They are languages but are so commonly used across the world on almost every single web page that it is just a standard.
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HTML and XHTML are not languages, if they were there wouldn't be a need for 'code' validators. You don't see any C++ code validators do you? ;)
 
I agree with cromewell, HTML and XHTML are not programming languages, they doesn't use code,they use tags. They even don't have any logical paradigm. If you are a newbie in web development,you must first understand the basics of HTML. After you have brief or simple understanding about it,try dreamweaver as your tool. Now if you are going to make complex website, you might use PHP, its free, easy to use and lots of codes available in the net. Lastly,some of the codes you see from the source is not actually manually done. Dreamweaver supports preprocessors that you don't need to type all the codes,just click on a certain object and dreamweaver code it for you.
 
I'm also a begginer, I use HTML and I use PHP scipts in the pages, and thats about all, and i just use notpad and rigth it all out, i woudl show you whta im working on, expect i put up a ZIP file on my server to download once s to get it to my other PC, and someone found out about it posted it on a forum, and wasted 25.5GB's of my bandwith so nothing can be veiwed on my site////
 
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