CSS, HTML, Ajax, PHP etc.
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- benfal99
Hi! :D
If I want to learn to code a bit, wich language would you recommand me to learn and why? You know, to build dynamic websites.
- aanderton0
HTML/CSS first mate, especially if you're looking to build the websites yourself.
- Continuity0
By 'dynamic', do you mean with interesting visual effects, or with data being fed in from a database?
In any case, you'll need to know CSS and HTML. Without that, forget it.
Having a solid understanding of JavaScript and related frameworks and libraries would be a good thing, too.
- lukus_W20
Learn HTML and CSS, but they're not really languages .. they're markup languages.
Once you've got an understanding of the basics, learn JavaScript. It's a proper language and it's becoming increasingly useful for front-end development. You can also use it on the backend with node.js.
- ernexbcn0
Yep, first learn your way around html/css/js then move to PHP.
- benfal990
i tried this website but iam sure where it is leading me at
- Continuity0
I have a love-hate relationship with DW.
I will never, EVER do any sort of CSS in it, I do that in Coda. I'll also do my basic layout mark-up in Coda. What I do use DW for is for rapid visualisation when I'm flowing in copy and mounting images in the layout.
Invariably, though, I have to go back and clean up the mark-up manually after doing so, to get rid of any DW Bloat™.
- benfal990
this one is pretty cool, made by print designers for print designers who wants to learn to code:
- benfal990
What is the best alternative for Coda on PC?
I downloaded NotePad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- Back in my Windows days, I was a huge fan of EditPlus. NP++ should do you, though.Continuity
- notepad++ is probably your best bet on PC mate.aanderton
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- orrinward0
I'm a Windows user and I use Notepad++
I keep all my HTML perfectly formatted by writing it up as HAML (a very sensitive, shorthand version of HTML) and then run it through a convertor to get the HTML.
It's an extra language to learn. If you just get into good habits with code formatting, it'll be second-nature to write it clean first time.
- section_0140
Don't use Dreamweaver. In my opinion, Aptana is the best coding enviornment for php/html/js/csss. Plus, it's free! I'd say learn them all at the same time. HTML really has nothing to it and will be easy to pick up. PHP, on the other hand, is going to take a lot of time and effort to learn.
Once you learn one language, others will be easy to pick up. Especially one's like java and c++ since they have similar syntax.
- Use DW all you want. Just use codeview and it's a just text editor like everything else.jamble
- ernexbcn0
I started with Windows notepad.exe then fiddled with Frontpage until Macromedia Dreamweaver was released, this being the 90s was the norm. Not much later I moved to plain text editors like Ultraedit in Windows and now since I jumped to Mac I use Textmate.
I want to master Vim though :) http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/…