Website creation - from scratch, or a novice.

[Slinwagh]

I need to create a website but have no knowledge of what language to use or what environment to create the site in.

Should I look at Dreamweaver or something else?

I would like the site to be "standards compliant" but there seem to be a few standards.

Should I being looking at using HTML, XHTML, DHTML, there seems to be a fair few xHTML's to look at!

Where can I look for help on the web that conforms to standards or is there a book that all us beginners should buy?

For now I don't need anything dynamic.

Show me the light OcUK web guru's!

 

[Slinwagh]

I want to code/develop if I can.

 

[Slinwagh]

Question : do you want to "create" a website (because you want to publish something) or "create" a website (as in learn to design/code one) ?

If you just want to get material out, I'd suggest a CMS such as wordpress to ease the process. Otherwise, concentrate on XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS and code for Firefox.

Should I not be coding for all browser compatability?

 

[Slinwagh]

Well looking at the W3schools XHTML tutorial and it is all a bit woooooh lol !