Web-page design questions

isaiahk9 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:01 pm

Hey, I just had a few questions about web-page design, as I don't know much about it :
1) The only real web-page design program I know of is Dreamweaver. I was wondering if there are better/more powerful ones out there.
2) What's the best way to learn about we-page design without having to take a course on it?
3) I was wondering if it would be possible to make this program :
This program is a catalogue-type system. Imagine a store that buys and sells video-games to and from people. Could the owner have a program that allows him to input the titles, system, price and condition of a game coming in and post it on the website, or take games that have been sold off the website? Basically the owner could display all the games that are in the store, and the people who go to the website could browse the game titles alphabetically for what they are looking for.

Thanx

Tony · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:18 pm

1) pencil and paper are still good for quick rough sketches. Ultimately you get the most power from your favourite text-editor.

2) Practice. Look at good design. Draw good design.

3) Yes; it sounds like a simple database-driven application.

isaiahk9 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:39 pm

Thanx tony, what did you mean in number 1 though? Are you suggesting that I use Dreamweaver?

Tony · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:52 pm

I'm suggesting that you get most power and end up with cleanest code, when you write your X/HTML from scratch.

isaiahk9 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:57 pm

Ahh, got it. Thanx, I'm thinking that's how I'll probably end up doing this project of mine.

jeffgreco13 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:25 pm

keep in mind that this application of yours is going to require a bit more than just Dreamweaver/Notepad and some (X)HTML knowledge...

to build an application like this you'll have to look into a server side scripting language.. i suggest looking into PHP and/or ASP

Then you need to check what options you have on your server. Not all hosting services provide MySQL support, in which case you'd have to use XML databases.

Here follow this:
1) Look into W3Schools for learning HTML, it's easy!

2) Start experimenting and building sites through notepad and upload them to your server.

3) Find out if PHP >4 is installed on your server.

4) If it is start learning from this PHP tutorial

5) Then learn MySQL through PHP from the same website.

From here you should be able to make a simple form/php application to handle your entries.

isaiahk9 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:15 pm

Thanks jeffgreco13, that helps alot.

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