Website creation - from scratch, or a novice.

Slinwagh

Slinwagh

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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!
 
Look at XHTML and CSS as its a good starting point for beginners

For Tutorials etc

Validator to check your code

W3c is the internet body for standards :p

Edit: for coding, I would recommend just plain notepad or notepad++, its really simple no need for a big blaoted program + you will learn more :)
 
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Personally, I usually use xhtml strict but then go down to xhtml transitional if I have to. (such as if the client absolutely insists on using target="_blank" for an external link(s)).

As Zinc above said, use notepad or one of the many expanded versions of it. I prefer notepad2 myself. It's really quite easy to replace your standard notepad with it.
 
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.
 
Shoseki said:
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.
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Should I not be coding for all browser compatability?
 
i've just started web work again, i did some asp in one of my uni modules but have decieded i want to learn how to develop with strict xhtml and css too. the last time i made a website was probably about 10 years ago and standards were rather lax back then.

i started off by creating a simple layout;

http://www.w3.org/2002/03/csslayout-howto

giving each div silly bright colours so i could see what effect me altering the style sheet had one them.
then i began looking into how to design the navigation that i wanted, bascially by just googling ideas that i have had - finding the correct terms, and which commands i need to be using - and then looking on the w3schools website. periodically chucking it through the validator to check i was on the right lines.
 
i'd be happy if it didn't need tweaking, me remember which bug does what, fixes applying etc - if it all just worked to the same standard, that's happy days!
 
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