Lets say I have an idea for a website, that will have 4 different parts to it: A Profile Page for each user (myspace type of thing) A Video Section (where users can upload/ download videos, etc..) A Blog Section A Forum Section Now From my understanding all these thing would require scripts yes? If no, then just pretend they did need scripts (substitute the things w/ another thing that needs a script). Bottom line is: If I ask for someone to write me a script, would thy need my websites HTML/CSS? Or are they totally not related? Also, lets say I want to have an awesome site like: youtube/facebook/blogger/imagehost/digitalpoint all put together. I would need several scripts right? Would it be okey to build 1 piece at a time (because I cant afford to hire someone to build the whole site for $100,000)? Or would that be complicated to build 1 part at time and instead building the whole site would be better? Thanks guys.
Generally use you HTML/CSS for the front-end/structure side - how things are layed out on screen, tables etc. PHP/ASP are server side scripting languages and hence any back-end processes such as video manipulation, user accounts, image resizing etc is all done with this. You or your developer will choose whether to build the site in php or asp (or others), depending on what their preferred dev language is. It really depends on what budget you have as to what can initially be built for a site. My preference is to get the bones of the system done, get it live and then concentrate on adding additional features. This also helps prove the concept and saves any unnecessary dev work/spending if it's not working out! Hope this helps?
great that was very helpful. so bottom line, is: the developer wouldn't need to know any of my sites HTML when he is developing scripts for me I can build up the site one script at a time I hope I got it right