which language/program for web development

jmhduck · 9 Aug 2007 at 17:47

Hiya,

I'm doing comp science at uni, about to start 2nd year and I need to build a website as I'm doing a year in industry and its useful for me to have one.

I have experiance a bit of experiance doing websites (although our uni web course is this year hence my lack of great knowledge) in notepad etc, but I'd rather do it a quicker way if possible.

So two questions:

Should I use any particular web page generator or do by notepad.

If I want to have nice effects and it to look good what language should I use on top of html or is just frames that is relatively easy? (for example I think this web page looks pretty good customp c and ocuk looks pretty good))

Hope those questions make sense

Thanks

jmhduck · 9 Aug 2007 at 21:54

Thanks for the reply and the link to w3chools I was trying to remember the site with amazing tutorials which I'd used before.

As for the dreamweaver/adobe stuff any particular recommendation?

Thanks

jmhduck · 10 Aug 2007 at 16:44

Cheers for all the replies keep em coming if you have any more advice.

I'm going to give dreamweaver a whirl see what it can do. I have hand coded 2-3 sites at school/college etc. I could do it in just notepad but maybe I'm just lazier than I was I want something to do it more quickly as notepad was a bit of a pain, if dreamweaver isn't for me I'll try notepad++ or ps pad as they seem quite popular.

furnace said:
I did come from FrontPage, though - many many years ago (about 6/7 years ago now!), but before that I was using MS Notepad with my cousin teaching me HTML And before that was MS publisher... that made really bad websites.

I did my first web page in publisher as well that was really **** lol

jmhduck · 22 Aug 2007 at 21:02

cheers for replies guys another quick question

, php or ruby on rails, I think they both look pretty good. I am taught php in dynamic web module would it be better to just do php or would doing rails help and give me better understanding?

Cheers

jmhduck · 23 Aug 2007 at 19:31

Una said:
What you got to remember here is rails is a framework (MVC) while php is a language. I moved out of PHP development 4 years ago to ruby/python for my client sites and there is no way I would go back. It depends on what you want to do really. You really got to know ruby to a decent level in order to take full advantage of the rails framework.

Cheers I think I'll go for php and then look at ruby on rails once I'm used to php.