Building a website

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I need help out there!

Guys I wanted to build a small website and I am a newbie and I need help from anybody. I intend to build the site in this free web hosting site:
freehostingcloud.com

The questions are as follows:

-> What are the recommended tools to be used?

-> What type of website proramming language should I use(I think freehostingcloud.com recommends PHP)

-> What are the basic steps I should follow to build the site?

-> What ever programming language you prefer, please state the title and author of the books you would recommend.

-> Finally, roughly how many days would it take to build just the homepage of my website as a newbie?

OK I think that's all for now...more questions later. I really need your help and it would be highly appreciated...thanks.
#programming #building #website
  • They probably have WOrdpress or joomla ready to install from fantastico through cpanel or something, do wordpress. No coding required.
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    • jminkler and iamjohnbrown, thank you very much guys for your feedback. I guess I didn't explain why I wanted to build a website. Well I just want to learn how to do it from scratch...say maybe build the the homepage or what ever necessary on my local computer using appropriate tools and then upload it online to a free website hosting server. Because I am a newbie and all this things I still don't know how to do, so I want to learn it from scratch. Please anymore comments or suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
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  • It depends on what type of site you want to create. If you are happy with Wordpress or Joomla type sites, you don't need to learn any programing language for that. Its pretty straight forward. If you are beginner to websites, you can learn HTML as the first stepping stone towards your journey on web development.
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    • jminkler and iamjohnbrown, thank you very much guys for your feedback. I guess I didn't explain why I wanted to build a website. Well I just want to learn how to do it from scratch...say maybe build the the homepage or what ever necessary on my local computer using appropriate tools and then upload it online to a free website hosting server. Because I am a newbie and all this things I still don't know how to do, so I want to learn it from scratch. Please anymore comments or suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

    • jminkler and iamjohnbrown, thank you very much guys for your feedback. I guess I didn't explain why I wanted to build a website. Well I just want to learn how to do it from scratch...say maybe build the the homepage or what ever necessary on my local computer using appropriate tools and then upload it online to a free website hosting server. Because I am a newbie and all this things I still don't know how to do, so I want to learn it from scratch. Please anymore comments or suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
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  • Good you have more questions then your website.
    I am answering them in next post
  • For building a website you need to do following steps:

    1. Finalize the idea you want to develop
    2. Get the design work done. Should be a psd or png (Use photoshop or fireworks to build one)
    3. Slice the design and create html
    4. Implement it in php or Asp or jsp
    5. Upload it to your server

    Cheers
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    • PHP all the way.
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    • zeeshi570, thank you so much for your help in indicating the steps. Please can you explain steps 2 and 3 in detail...your continuous help is needed man. Thanks.
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  • Myself and a friend will be doing a free webinar on oct 30th, For basically an introduction to webdesign, tips and secrets to make your website stand out, then some coding.

    if your interested goto moddish.com, just finished moving to this new design I did a few days ago, finishing moving the content today, let me know what you think , signup on the right hand sidebar. We are not sure yet how many we will be taking in the class, as webinar software has a limitation depending on the account, I think ours has a 1000 person limit. When we reach the limit ill remove the forum from the sidebar.
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    • newbim

      iamjohnbrown

      espradley

      Evan-M

      I would be really really happy to have 1000 hands so I could type out my word of thanks to you guys individually. To you guys and the others, I am just gonna say once for all you nice helpers out there that I am grateful for your sincere help. You guys are awesome...thanks.

      Anymore incoming comments or suggestion would be really appreciated. Thanks guys. It doesn't stop, I'll ask more when I'm stuck.
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  • Hi Tango here is explanation for these steps:

    2. Every website is first designed then developed. If you see at WF you can see there are different colors used in this website. You can see everything is arranged all this is done in design phase when designer creates a dummy websites using some graphics tool (photoshop is one).

    3. Slice the design and create html. Once design is ready u need to slice it. You can't put images as is on website this will make it bulky and will take time in loading.
    So you have to cut images in small and use CSS and HTML to arrange them. This is called slicing.


    Regards,
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    • zeeshi570, thanks for the explanations. Now it's clear.

      More questions will pop in later. Thanks again mate.
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  • You can build some pretty good sites with DotNetNuke, Drupal and Wordpress. Drupal is probably the hardest.

    DotNetNuke has lots of "modules" you can get to plug in and add functionality. So does Wordpress.
  • @Tango_T50,

    PHP is a programming language - it tells the server to do stuff and build a dynamic page.
    HTML is the language that a web page is built in - it tells the browser what to draw on the screen.

    When using PHP for web sites, the PHP code runs on the server and generates HTML that is sent to the browser.

    If you aren't a programmer, go with a CMS system like DotNetNuke or Wordpress.
  • you can implement your website byhp, Asp .Net.
  • use joomla if you doesn't know about web programming.
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    • yes. you could used joomla but most of the cms have bugs.
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