I want to develop membership sites - What do I need to learn.

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by johnweiver, Feb 10, 2011.

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    I want to develop membership sites. Currently I am learning html and next I want to learn css.

    Please are the web design languages I need to learn to be able to develop membership sites.
    I will appreciate any directive for online tutorials.
     
    johnweiver, Feb 10, 2011 IP
  2. indianartist

    indianartist Peon

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    i think you are asking about community or multiuser site with user registration and login functionalities. For this you must learn a server side language like php. Html and css are the basics for designing a website.
     
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  3. clonepal

    clonepal Active Member

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    Also lear PHP, you need it, if you need a membership site. There are free membership scripts also, you can download them and look on the PHP code, you will learn faster this way.

    -Alex
     
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  4. iamgame

    iamgame Greenhorn

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    As clonepal suggested, you can always learn faster by going through the code of, maybe, a couple of open source software like Wordpress, Drupal (both PHP based).
     
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  5. TechnoBombs

    TechnoBombs Member

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    Hey Go for wordpress. Its is free open source Content management site. You can create site with any number of Authors. This is useful for multiuser blogs. If you ar ewilling to create some kind of social networking sites such as twitter/facebook then you can use plugins for that. No HTML/PHP/JS knowledge required. you can do it by own.

    Hey go to wordpress.org for downloading the core files.
     
    TechnoBombs, Feb 11, 2011 IP
  6. DuValEnterprises

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    Ideally, any web designer should have at least the following languages in their toolbelt:

    To create static pages:

    HTML/XHTML
    CSS

    Also, with HTML5 and CSS3 coming up fast, you should also look into these. Most HTML5 features are not widely supported yet, but it will replace HTML/XHTML in the near future.

    To create dynamic/interactive pages (such as your membership site..)

    PHP (Server-side language)
    Javascript (Client-side language)


    It is also very, very important to learn the difference between server-side language and client-side, you will need to understand this in order to create sites that meet today's Web 2.0 standards. Working together with PHP and Javascript, you can create some really cool stuff, to give you an idea, think of a site like Facebook. Obviously FB's setup is more complicated than this simple example, but you hopefully get the idea.

    It also doesn't hurt to learn other languages, some of the other programming languages I use regularly to create advanced websites are Perl and Python

    The last piece of advice I will leave you with is this:

    You don't need to MASTER these languages to build awesome stuff! Even the most prolific coders still need to check reference guides for features or syntax issues, etc every now and again. It's much more important (in my opinion) to learn and understand the CAPABILITIES of a programming language rather than spending however long memorizing each and every command, feature, etc..

    If you understand the gist of what a language is capable of doing enough to decide to use that technology, you can always look up the functionality needed as you code. You will also be learning by example/experience this way :)
     
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  7. crazyjames360

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    PERL, PHP, My SQL, Java Script long way to go HTML and CSS is beginning but good luck you can do it Programming language is not hard to learn
     
    crazyjames360, Feb 12, 2011 IP
  8. johnweiver

    johnweiver Peon

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    thanks everyone for your contribution from:

    indianartist
    clonepal
    iamgame
    TechnoBombs
    DuValEnterprises
    crazyjames360

    I really appreciate you contributions and I have got my first point which is the fact that I need to learn PHP and Javascript as a plus.

    DuvalEnterprises really brings out the idea and crazyjames360 complement it with a bold statement " they are easy to learn"


    Now, will you recommend anywhere only where I can learn on my own.
    e.g w3schools. or..........................
     
    johnweiver, Feb 12, 2011 IP
  9. c4cyber

    c4cyber Well-Known Member

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    php mysql would help...
     
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