Question for the webdesigner pros.......

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Hi guys

Quick question - what is everybody here using to build there websites these days, WP or are actually coding the full HTML yourself?

Basically I have full SysAdmin background (Linux, Solaris, Windows Sevrer, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Oracle, VMware, Xenserver, Apache, Perl, basic C# etc etc) but I would like to use that knowledge to power a website idea I've had for a while but not sure how to get started, any ideas? I have very little HTML // PHP experience.

Essentially my website would use:

PHP
MySQL
Linux
Apache

(LAMP)

It would mainly be around db stats, graphs, ever changing data - not forums or blogs...but I'd also like to make it look good with JQuery???? I'd like it to look modern and "cool" but heavily stats orientated with constant updates and graphs.

Any tips on what would be the best way to start? I want to do this myself and pick up the knowledge as I go.

Much appreciated guys if you can give me some pointers, thanks

 

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Hi guys sorry for taking an age to reply, I've been away with work and mega busy, apologies - just wanted to say much appreciate your replies, thanks guys.

After reading your responses I've got XenServer 6 running on a quad core home dev box with LAMP set up on a CentOS 6 VM and bought the book "Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript" (O'Reilly) which I've just started getting into.

Highcharts looks EXACTLY what I was after, thanks! the only graph type it doesnt appear to do which I wanted was a "rev // rpm" style graph which is a shame.

I dont wanna use wordpress or druapl, joomla etc tbh want to do this to learn the skills.

I already have books on HTML, CSS and JQUERY (I have bought the Sitepoint books), so hopefully I have everything I need now.

Thanks again fellas much appreciated!

 

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Guys

Quick question if thats cool, do you think it would be possible to embed a specific chart from "highcharts" in an email?

This seems difficult to me as you would need to pass the initial data to create the chart and then render it in some kind of graphic format then embed in the email as an actual image (it would be internal for testing, not external so will be trusted).....

hmmm