I go to a high school with a very strict internet policy that restricts anything non-school related plus nearly every proxy. I think I could make a good deal of money by making my own. My only experience though is coding is Java though. My idea is to have a site where students pay for monthly access and use a unique username/pass combo to access the site. Then, it would have to use encryption so the IT guys can't tell what is going on with the website. What skills do I need to learn to do this? What guides can I read? What advice can you give me? Thank you so much for at least reading my question.
Well, to make a web page, you first need to study basic html codes. I found 2 great site for learning html "http://www.tizag.com/beginnerT/" and "http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp". These are the site where I learn my html, and css "Cascading Style Sheets" thats after you learned html. Html is not as hard as it looks, it took me 1 month and 2-4 hrs a day, for html , and another month for css. That's because I had a lot of time on my hands. Quick lesson, open notpad, this is your webpage editing file. There's many free webpage editing tools out there, just google it. Right now it's blank, but not for long, im going to show you the basic html coding to start a page. 1st save, name the file index.html, index.html is going to be the main page when people go to your site, other words your Home page. Now save your index.html. And save it on your desktop for easy access, now it's a webpage. When you save, your notpad should still be open. If not, right click on the index.html file, open with, notpad. Copy and paste the codes to you notepad. <html> <title>This is my first webpage</title> <head> <body bgcolor="lightblue"> <p>This is my first <b>webpage</b>, anything between <body> and </body>, this is where your<br> going to put all your sources. Like paragraphs, pictures, javascript, links and etc.</p> </body> </head> </html> Every time you edit you notepad, save it everytime, and go back to webpage index.html, and refresh. Go to the html tutorial websites, and take your time in learning webdesign.
Well since you know Java, I'm surprised HTML seems alien to you. There's a lot of online tutorial. Use notepad or notepad++ (recommended) to write your first html and css. Hand coding is so much better than using Dreamweaver cos you will learn faster. As for that membership type of website you want to build, why not learn JSP after mastering the html and css, since its also java based.
I agree that h**p://www.w3schools.com is a great resource. Thats where I learned the language and there are cool tutorials that will guide you too. Also a cool little book series called "SAMS - Teach Yourself" (i.e. HTML, PHP). Those are great little books to reference off of.