Make a website by myself?

[newbie1]

Given that somebody is a newbie (like me), how long will it take to the average person to create not very complex website without external help if they start from scratch. Should they know PHP, besides HTML?

[mlseim]

If you want a static site, with no interaction, no forms, no programming,
you could create a site rather quickly ... even to the point of downloading
a free CSS template and putting in your own content.

Most sites are not like that now ... some PHP, MySQL, or some other server-side
scripting (programming) is required. You can learn it all for free using Google to
find tutorials, examples, etc. ... but maybe it would take one year to learn it?

How do we know what your technical/programming experiences are?

I learned BASIC and C++ back in the 1977-1985 era. I learned PHP very quickly and I
consider myself average. But, having previous programming was a leap of experience.


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[EdNerd]

There is so much available - WordPress, Wix, and a host of others - that lets you put up a "not very complex" web site without learning any coding at all. Why do you want to learn HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and the rest?

[Grphoay]

Unless the whole purpose of putting up a site that is very simple is to learn how to do it from coding standpoint. If you just want a simple site to have the site, then yes, wp is probably the easiest because no coding is needed.

[VIPStephan]

Why do you want to learn HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and the rest?

Let me ask a counter question: Why not? It certainly can’t hurt to know.

[Merculxik]

Someone gave me some good advice a while back, and that was to learn html. Even if I never built a html site, at least I know the basics and can edit some by myself. It was good advice.

[newbie1]

Why do you want to learn HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and the rest?

Curiosity, hobby, and I did not know it would take a whole year.

[webninja]

If you are building static html sites, you may want to try xsitepro2 program. Ive use it before for building ppc sites. But if you want a more complex, you may want to try Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal.

[teedoff]

Curiosity, hobby, and I did not know it would take a whole year.

It may take a year, it may take longer. If you're intelligent enough, it might take less.

I find that kids(younger ppl than myself) today are more adept at learning coding and especially programming. They usually have already had basic to intermediate computer and/or programming classes in high school, so it seems to come easier for them.

HTML really shouldn't take you more than a couple months. Its not a hard concept to grasp. CSS to me was difficult at first, and with ever changing web standards, you will continue learning the rest of your life, if you so choose.

PHP is a much more cryptic language. But the positive side is, once you learn a language like PHP, others are not extremely different and come quicker.

I started with Coldfusion(instead of PHP), which is alot like HTML in that it's a tag based language and therefore VERY readable. Much easier to learn than any other server side.

[Thwbqornhill]

I've picked up the basics of all 3 - html, css, and php. Mainly just enough so that I can make the changes that I want to my own sites. It does make me want to take the time to learn more, tho.

[DanielD]

Do you have to do it from scratch. Even to this day I still have to go back to references just because I can't remember the exact line.

[RishiJasapara]

If you wish to go for a learning experience, and if the site is a static one, maybe you should give it a shot!

Sites like WordPress will help and Wix will help you to create a full flash site by simply dragging and dropping !!

Basic and static sites wont require much of PHP. A little bit of CSS maybe effectively used, but using Google you will find many CSS Templates and codes. Go Ahead and Explore i would say

[newbie1]

If you wish to go for a learning experience, and if the site is a static one, maybe you should give it a shot!

Sites like WordPress will help and Wix will help you to create a full flash site by simply dragging and dropping !!

Basic and static sites wont require much of PHP. A little bit of CSS maybe effectively used, but using Google you will find many CSS Templates and codes. Go Ahead and Explore i would say

I am curious, can a WordPress site be dynamic?

[abrun4]

Ok i think that a website would normally take about three months, depending on the complex and the sophisticated website is EG : custom code , flash, java scripting and data base. might be longer so how much custom content you have. The more content you want in it the higher the cost is obviously going to be.

[teedoff]

I am curious, can a WordPress site be dynamic?

Thats ALL a wordpress site is, dynamic... lol All content in a wordpress site is generated by a database and php.