Hi, New here.
Just wanted to say "Hi" and I guess introduce my self and ask a couple questions.
I have had a small amount of web design experience, but nothing that I would call significant. I can use photoshop to create something that looks decent and use dreamweaver to put it together in html. I don't know how to create a form, and only recently looked up what PHP and MySQL is. I used an older version of Dreamweaver back when I had dabbled in the subject, and in the newest version that I obtained I had to 'figure out' CSS to 'recreate' some of the things I used to do. CSS doesn't seem too complicated or difficult, especially with dreamweaver, but I hadn't used it before.
I saw in a thread on here, someone said something about learning HTML5 instead of using tables. I use a lot of tables. It's the backbone of my pages. I looked up HTML5 but I don't get how it could replace tables.
I don't know much, if anything, about Javascript.
I've considered in the past pursuing something in web design, but I think it's obvious that there are many people out there who are a lot more skilled and knowledgeable than I am, which is intimidating.
I moved at the beginning of this year and the town I am in seems to have a lack of "onlineness" if you get what I'm saying. We were looking up apartments online, pretty much out only knowledge of the town we moved too, and only found 3 apartment complexes with websites, and google earth gave us the phone numbers of just a couple other. There are like 20 in this town. One of the three websites is horrible and even with my 'sub-par' skills I could create something 10 times better!
I'm interested in learning more about web design and I want to know what PHP and MySQL is and how to use it as well as Javascript and PHP and all of that stuff. I considered Phoenix Online college but I'm not sure, and if I were to pursue that, I'd be better off waiting a year or two. And I'm sure there is a way for me to become a 'pro' without college. There are probably 5 year olds who can do more than me at this point. Maybe that's exaggerating. Maybe. I haven't really looked into any other books than the "for Dummies". I should look into other books too.
I know you'll tell me to search this forum for information, and there is a pinned thread in one spot that had some useful info for me.
I guess what I'd be interested in from you is - are there any good books out there that I should consider? Of all the info I could find, maybe someone could point me to a couple of the "best" things pertaining to what I've talked about.
I've put a little something together for the apartment complex that has a POS website and I'm debating going in there and showing it to them to see if they'd be interested in a little upgrade. I figured that I could get a server on godaddy for $82/yr and I put together a figure of about 50-60 dollars to do a site for these people which would include 1yr hosting and management. Does that sound reasonable to you guys? I thought if I was able to get 5 local businesses as clients it would be a couple pennies in my pocket.
I look forward to learning and being a part of this community. Thank you for any advice and help!!!
Just wanted to say "Hi" and I guess introduce my self and ask a couple questions.
I have had a small amount of web design experience, but nothing that I would call significant. I can use photoshop to create something that looks decent and use dreamweaver to put it together in html. I don't know how to create a form, and only recently looked up what PHP and MySQL is. I used an older version of Dreamweaver back when I had dabbled in the subject, and in the newest version that I obtained I had to 'figure out' CSS to 'recreate' some of the things I used to do. CSS doesn't seem too complicated or difficult, especially with dreamweaver, but I hadn't used it before.
I saw in a thread on here, someone said something about learning HTML5 instead of using tables. I use a lot of tables. It's the backbone of my pages. I looked up HTML5 but I don't get how it could replace tables.
I don't know much, if anything, about Javascript.
I've considered in the past pursuing something in web design, but I think it's obvious that there are many people out there who are a lot more skilled and knowledgeable than I am, which is intimidating.
I moved at the beginning of this year and the town I am in seems to have a lack of "onlineness" if you get what I'm saying. We were looking up apartments online, pretty much out only knowledge of the town we moved too, and only found 3 apartment complexes with websites, and google earth gave us the phone numbers of just a couple other. There are like 20 in this town. One of the three websites is horrible and even with my 'sub-par' skills I could create something 10 times better!
I'm interested in learning more about web design and I want to know what PHP and MySQL is and how to use it as well as Javascript and PHP and all of that stuff. I considered Phoenix Online college but I'm not sure, and if I were to pursue that, I'd be better off waiting a year or two. And I'm sure there is a way for me to become a 'pro' without college. There are probably 5 year olds who can do more than me at this point. Maybe that's exaggerating. Maybe. I haven't really looked into any other books than the "for Dummies". I should look into other books too.
I know you'll tell me to search this forum for information, and there is a pinned thread in one spot that had some useful info for me.
I guess what I'd be interested in from you is - are there any good books out there that I should consider? Of all the info I could find, maybe someone could point me to a couple of the "best" things pertaining to what I've talked about.
I've put a little something together for the apartment complex that has a POS website and I'm debating going in there and showing it to them to see if they'd be interested in a little upgrade. I figured that I could get a server on godaddy for $82/yr and I put together a figure of about 50-60 dollars to do a site for these people which would include 1yr hosting and management. Does that sound reasonable to you guys? I thought if I was able to get 5 local businesses as clients it would be a couple pennies in my pocket.
I look forward to learning and being a part of this community. Thank you for any advice and help!!!
