Web Design- HELP!!

[oakmiser]

My friend's uncle has a job open for creating his company's new website. Though its been a while since I've done anything but a personal website or helped my dad edit things on his religious websites.

Could anyone point me to a few updated websites on web design?

I'm not sure if he will be asking me to have a way to order the products he sells online or not. I've never done anything past a simple multi-box submit form / guestbook. So any information on setting up a secure ordering system that can bill/send ordering information/etc would be helpful.

This would look great on my resume and look good when applying to ITT tech in the summer so I really want to land this job.

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[trawler69]

I have a feeling an oracle is about to post. Listen to him well as he spills his pearls of wisdom.

 

[Kins123]

Hello there!

What kind of thing did you do in the past? What is your experience? Were they done in something like Frontpage or did you code them yourself?

The best way by far is hand coded. You will also learn 10x more than you will with any WYSIWYG.

Here are some good resources that I have used in the past:

W3Schools - http://www.w3schools.com/ I would recommend having a look through the HTML, XHTML and CSS tutorials.

There are also some really good books out there. Sitepoint do some good ones like the CSS Anthology:

http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Anthology...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205182202&sr=8-1

There is also a book called CSS Mastery which is very good:

http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Mastery-A...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205182264&sr=1-1

About the E-Commerce thing. Don't even think about that bit until your comfortable with general web development and how it all works.

There will be a lot you will need to think about, such as browser compatibility, Internet Explorer bugs, accessibility, web standards and did I mention Internet Explorer bugs? It's all fun though!

Good luck!

 

[oakmiser]

I built a ton of personal websites. I started out with simple coding of text and tables on a website that allowed that kind of alteration. For a long time I did graphics based pages on Live journal . I eventually had a domain name, though only for a year.

What I know: HTML, Some Java, CSS(omg I LOVE CSS), FTP Programs, have used Dreamweaver and Frontpage. I've installed CGI programs onto my domain's server, but don't know anything about writing CGI programs myself.

 

[Kins123]

Well that sounds like a good foundation to build upon. By Java, I take it you mean Javascript?

I'm glad you love CSS as it really does kick ass. By using valid XHTML and CSS you can create really good code (and websites of course ). I can't see why anyone would want to use a WYSIWYG when simple text editor does the job more efficiently.

Table layout =

CSS layout =

What OS are you using? I'm using Mac and the tools I use are:

Textmate: http://macromates.com/ - $62

CSS Edit: http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ - $29.95

MAMP: http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php - Free

Transmit: http://www.panic.com/transmit/ - $29.95

Total: $121.90

And lets compare that to Dreamweaver: $399.00 (I don't even know if Dreamweaver does everything the above programs do)

 

[wanderer]

i have done lots of web pages with the table layout desing format (hidden of course), but im exploring the CSS layout because it seems so much easier, and you can do so much more with it. one site i absolutely love is http://www.csszengarden.com/ because designers have to take their basic page, and add a CSS style sheet to it ONLY with no changes to the code of the page, then the page you see is what they did. most of the work is sourcing images to the backgrounds of the h1 tags and so on. there are so man impressive designs, and it really shows how CSS is superior to the standard table layout.

 

[oakmiser]

Well that sounds like a good foundation to build upon. By Java, I take it you mean Javascript?

I'm glad you love CSS as it really does kick ass. By using valid XHTML and CSS you can create really good code (and websites of course ). I can't see why anyone would want to use a WYSIWYG when simple text editor does the job more efficiently.

Table layout =

CSS layout =

What OS are you using? I'm using Mac and the tools I use are:

Textmate: http://macromates.com/ - $62

CSS Edit: http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ - $29.95

MAMP: http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php - Free

Transmit: http://www.panic.com/transmit/ - $29.95

Total: $121.90

And lets compare that to Dreamweaver: $399.00 (I don't even know if Dreamweaver does everything the above programs do)

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-pro...you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

I the Internet. Yes Javascript. I only used Dreamweaver and frontpage in Highschool because my stupid fuck of a teacher insisted on making us learn it and not learn the coding. I kept poping up notepad when she wasn't looking, lmfao.

 

[Telstra]

good thread

 

[Paws]

Total: $121.90

And lets compare that to Dreamweaver: $399.00

Let's compare it to Windows:

Phase5 (XHTML & CSS): Free

WAMP: Free

LeechFTP: Free

Total: $0

(I don't even know if Dreamweaver does everything the above programs do)

It does even much more.