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hello to you guys!

since from the summer of 1998 i started learning html and studied browser scripting and the past 2 years i started studying php and perl...

can anyone of you guys tell me how to be a web developer? what to study in particular?

Try learning flash and javascript too.

i think try to study also CSS,FLASH,JAVA SCRIPTING. that you become web developer. not all web developer study that.. but it can help you more and explore more..

If you want to be a web developer you started ok, html is the basic in web designing, then you should try a little bit of xhtml (similar to html) and then a bit of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and try putting these two together (html + CSS), after that you could try some simple php scripts and adding them to html files, but if you wanna learn php you mightaswell learn MySQL to to store data of guestbooks and stuff like that, after you got all this in your brain start some javascripts and last try designing in flash, I am currenltly doing something in flash but mostly for fun or if i'm bored

Good luck!

Greetz.

Looking at the current trents, i think it wortwhile to look up some information on AJAX, its a great technique, but also rather complicated. Youll need a good understanding of javascript and serverside scripting -> asp,php etc.

but its worth it

Don't forget the basics...computer programming principles, C++, general scripting, algorithms, database design. HTML/CSS/JS can only get you so far. PHP is a very good start, but it's too easy to shortcut with PHP. You can make some very sloppy code that could possibly take a server down.

Rommaster wrote:Try learning flash and javascript too.

What is the tool/app in creating/editing flash? Where do I get it?

lyndz wrote:

Rommaster wrote:Try learning flash and javascript too.

What is the tool/app in creating/editing flash? Where do I get it?

Uhm, Macromedia Flash. But i should now rather say Adobe Flash...

Try this link.I hope it's usefull : http://www.w3schools.com/

unlike many others in this thread, i would advise you NOT to bother:

flash, java, javascript, ajax etc...

there are very few jobs which REQUIRE any of those... infact they will most likely just make ur site unaccessable by some ppl and in other ways bring more bad than good.

stick to plain text:

xhtml, css

learn gimp or photoshop to make simple graphics.

for dynamic pages use:

php or perl, sql

perl is harder to get started with, but is much more powerful than php. php also has a bad security record. i prefere postgresql over mysql, its just better and has better licence imo.

perl has a module called Mason which is extreamly powerful for large scale web development. amazon.com and del.icio.us uses it among others.

oreally has a free book on mason available online at: http://www.masonbook.com/book/index.mhtml

If you wanna be a good Web-Designer, IMHO, besides all scripting language, you must know the laws of design and colour selection.

I think, "The Non Designer Design Book" by Robin Williams would be a good starting point.

if you wanna be a good web designer, try to learn frm the start and basic html.. learn all scripting language and css coding..

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For web developing u need HTML, Perl, PHP, mySQL, Java.
If u want to keep up u can maybe even learn little design stuff.

http://www.webmonkey.com/ is good place to start.

my brother makes websites and he doesnt even know photoshop or any picture making stuff...i guess he concentrates on server stuff...i donno....i guess it depends on what you wanna do...

But if you wanna design websites, i would strongly suggest you learn photoshop. I gotta become better in photoshop...but i'm too lazy

Learning something does not come out in flash. One should start from the scratch. To become a web developer, you should know HTML first, the basic of web authoring. Then, going more advanced, start dealing with advanced html, CSS, add bits of Javascripts.

Advancing more, deal with php and sql... then start working on flash...

Combining all these stuffs would bring magic more magic and life to your work...