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Is there a good free site to learn web design stuff?

HTML tutor here is real helpful.

Wherever he refers to his html authoring program, just read as if it's the name of whatever program uyou're actually using.

Good, clear, simple.
 
From what I've read - and used (gmail) - I suggest learning AJAX, or more specifically RubyOnRails. Although you still do need to have knowledge of basic html when working with RubyOnRails. But I would learn RubyOnRails before learning php or java/javascript. The only downside it almost every web host supports php, where-as very few support RubyOnRails, for now. But RubyOnRails looks like it will be the future. Google for it and you will find all sorts of beginner documentation and tutorials and info on why it completely blows away php or java/javascript (I'm a php coder now, though I know(well, knew) java/javascript (don't like it), but RubyOnRails is what I'm slowly learning).

edit: btw, gmail is coded in AJAX - not sure if it uses RubyOnRails but I think I read that it does.
 
Originally posted by: Brazen
From what I've read - and used (gmail) - I suggest learning AJAX, or more specifically RubyOnRails. Although you still do need to have knowledge of basic html when working with RubyOnRails. But I would learn RubyOnRails before learning php or java/javascript. The only downside it almost every web host supports php, where-as very few support RubyOnRails, for now. But RubyOnRails looks like it will be the future. Google for it and you will find all sorts of beginner documentation and tutorials and info on why it completely blows away php or java/javascript (I'm a php coder now, though I know(well, knew) java/javascript (don't like it), but RubyOnRails is what I'm slowly learning).

edit: btw, gmail is coded in AJAX - not sure if it uses RubyOnRails but I think I read that it does.
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For just a normal website, not a forum, can't I just use HTML or XML?
 
Originally posted by: O Hammer O is my gamertag
Originally posted by: Brazen
From what I've read - and used (gmail) - I suggest learning AJAX, or more specifically RubyOnRails. Although you still do need to have knowledge of basic html when working with RubyOnRails. But I would learn RubyOnRails before learning php or java/javascript. The only downside it almost every web host supports php, where-as very few support RubyOnRails, for now. But RubyOnRails looks like it will be the future. Google for it and you will find all sorts of beginner documentation and tutorials and info on why it completely blows away php or java/javascript (I'm a php coder now, though I know(well, knew) java/javascript (don't like it), but RubyOnRails is what I'm slowly learning).

edit: btw, gmail is coded in AJAX - not sure if it uses RubyOnRails but I think I read that it does.
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For just a normal website, not a forum, can't I just use HTML or XML?
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Well for a static website, yes, you can. But for dynamic or interactive content, you have to use one of the technologies I mentioned. Still no matter what you use, you must have html knowledge in order to do the layout. Right now php is the popular language for dynamic content, but RubyOnRails will be gaining popularity.

Here is how my site works: there is a template written in html but instead of containing any content, it contains php code that pulls content from a MySQL database. That way I only update the database (again using php code) and the new content automatically gets thrown into the template and my site is update without having to touch the html source.

I must confess though, I did not write my site from scratch. I use the open source content management system called "Joomla!" that takes care of all the fancy features for me. I wouldn't even have to touch html or css except to create my own unique template which is basically just like creating a static html page. Joomla! itself is written in php and html with some javascript, but as I said, the next generation of dynamic/interactive web content is going to be AJAX sites written with technologies like RubyOnRails.
 
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