Hi! I know there was a time where the whole website could be made using html only. But now there are bunch of additional stuff like php, asp, xml, css and what not. The area has progressed so far and so fast that I don’t have a clue of where to start. So I'll be help full if you could arrange them in a priority basis. I’d also be grateful if you could provide the titles for some good e-books that might help.
you write few languages without know what anyone of them do, so I will explain little about them. 1. HTML -basic web page. 2.CSS- Cascading Style Sheets --> designing templete for HTML e-bookro CSS Techniques 3.PHP -dynamic web pages--> http://php.net/manual 4.Asp - Active Server Pages--> also like Php just the syntax is different and microsoft was devloper this language 5.Asp.net - also dynamic web page just they add the .net platform .http://asp.net 6.xml- eXtensible Markup Language -->this is a standard for display data on the web. I hope it's will help u.
HTML is still the basic building block of a website and is the contents that is sent to the browser to show. CSS is the code that should be used to determin how the contents looks when displayed - this originally was done in the HTML but now is seperated out giving the advantage of quicker page loading and enabling you to change your whole sites look by changing a single CSS file. PHP/ ASP/ .Net/ JSP/ CFM/ CGI etc are all serverside languages that allow for greater interaction between the user and your site from something very simple like emailing a form after someone hits the submit button to complex elements such as a forum or social networking site. These will generate HTML and/ or Javascript which is actually what is sent to the user. XML is a datastore and an easy way for servers to communicate to each other. Unlike dbs though a web browser can directly display an XML document but it will not really be usable. There are some pre-defined formats for XML (eg RSS) with specialist readers to give a more user friendly output without the need for programming. As to the most important? To be honest it is difficult to say as it depends what you are trying to create. Whilst most would naturally say HTML and CSS, and I agree it is important to have a good knowledge of these, they arent necessarily the most important as it is certainly possible to create a complete website in .Net basically without writing a single line of HTML (though it would be fairly inefficient to do this)
I, the guy who started this thread, have forgottten to thank you. How very crude of me! Thank you Astaroth
I would say you start by creating some pages with HTML (only html). If you are at all technical the HTML specs at w3c.org is where I would start. http://www.w3.org/html/ If you are less technical or like to be guided, do some tutorials - there are some there or search. After you have a few HTML pages, I would try CSS. Again w3c.org have the CSS specs. Next is PHP for which you need to arrange (buy) some hosting. After that the other stuff you mention may or may not be needed depending on what sites you want to create. HTH.
I would say start from html and css then work your way up and like lowcostlux said use www.w3.org for learning html.. then go buy a book for css i had siepoint - HTML UTOPIA: DESIGNING WITHOUT TABLES USING CSS