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Did I mention that if you are creating your own web site, you ought to know a bit about writing and literature. You want your words to flow and logical and such. Good practice for this is getting a blog and trying to write at least a few posts a week.*hint: always spell check

absolutly guys, there are soo many levels makeing of web sites. I must say, I think it is best to know a bit of everything, though you don't need to be a master. I'm a web designer (XHTML/CSS), web developer (PHP/javascript), database manager (MySQL), and I know some of the basics of TCP/IP and how to install/config Apache (and the OS, too). But hey, I've been doing this for a while, and I consider myself a very devoted computer nerd.If you don't have a teamof designers or developers at your disposal, who is going to put a design to your program, or a script/content for your design?I guess the only thing I feel I don't have is graphic design. I've managed to fair all right so far, but I've definaly had situations where I wish I had a banner, logo, etc for a web site. When I start my computer services company Nerd Herd Computer Services (http://www.fix-computer.tk yes a shamless plug), I'll have to hire out for a logo because I'm just not talented with graphics or drawing.That's my situation and views. Take what you will from them.

if you've got a mastery of standard XHTML and CSS, javascript, then the next step (in my opinion) is PHP, and then add MySQL database interactions to PHP.It also helps to have a good understanding of how Apache (or IIS or w/e) work, such as configuration files and modifications and such.then you've got ASP, .NET, ColdFusion, hmm.. what else. I know there are more. That should keep you busy for a while, though.happy learning

looks good on the ol' college apps (or resume)i'll get mine...as soon as i get some cash saved upbeing 17, married w/ child... ya gotta have financial priorities.and/or i'm procrastinating taking a test. i'll say both.

definatly javascript for us linux users

hey, if you're gonna learn HTML, start>run>'notepad' and press enternow type<!DOCTYPE...learn it the way the browser reads it, I say.back to the topic of school and web design class:if they tought me science and geography the way they tought web design, I'd be telling you the world is flat.

oh yeah, and if you ever want to rant about school and such, and you're not sure if anyone else'll get it, feel free to PM me I totally understand where you're at, bud.

Oh man, I so feel your pain, OTTO. I just finished Web Design A last semester.We learned to use MS Word to create a web page YAYso many times I just wanted to stand up and call the teacher a dumb*** but I restrained myself, and did my web pages my way. The teacher is nice enough and he knows me and understood that I know HTML better than he does, and that I'm much more up to date on such things.I got a 101 out of 100 on the final because he just sort of knew better than grading my markup to his circa-1990s standards.Thankfully, I think the web design classes are under reform in GA. I hope they fix it... If I see one more web site on the Internet created by MS Word I'm just gonna snap.

there are some tuts over on www.php.net itself, and you might check out www.phpfreaks.com as well.this site proved a tremendous help for me:http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/let us know if you need more and I'm sure other have good tuts as well.

Wow. I've installed the Web Developer extension and this thing is very promising.It looks like it is turning firefox into an html+xhtml+css editor. I'm very impressed.

Wow, i guess I need to keep up to date on those cool firefox plugins. that looks handy.Well, this is still cool if you don't want the plugin or if you're running IE.yuck! i made something for IE!

I thought this might be pretty useful if you're developing and you don't want to add the "Valid HTML!" button/link to your site. I couldn't get the links to work quite right through the BBCode (since it's javascript) so just make a bookmark with that javascript titled the corresponding title.oh yeah, one more thing. this'll work for any site on the internet. If you're on a website and you want to see it's validation just click the button. also, make sure that you use it when you're on your server, as it won't work for a file on your computer as the file cannot be accessed from W3C's validatorI orignally blogged this here, so leave me some comments on my blog if you like this http://thinktank.ichyware.net:81/~matthew/wordpress/?p=18

a Freewebs template is probably copyrighted, so check that before you use it on a non-freeweb site. also, they can probably support you better being that it is their template and you haven't been very specific with the problem.of couse, you can always start learning HTML and try to read the code you're working with. I hear this site has some good turorials http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

I just saw the screenshots of the crimson editor. it looks pretty cool. windows-only, so I'll have to wait a bit to try it out.

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XHTML and CSSXHTML is a document, marked for paragraphs, headers, divisions, etcCSS designs it, fonts, text-decorations, margins, etcif we all use the standards, it will be easier for various browsers to come into existance. this is vital with the growing mobile devices market, such as web-enabled cell phones, smart phones, PDAs and pocket PCs. it takes a lot to be a fully standards-compliant web designer, but it's worth it when you web page looks the exact same in IE6, Firefox, Opera, Links, Lynx, your cell phone, a blackberry...it's all about the ease of portability.

the problem was with your inline cssyou had <body style="background-images: url('myimagedir.gif'); background: no-repeat;"> the css element 'background' is a shortcut to control all background properties, like color, repeat, image, etc, see http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.aspso when you say "background: no-repat," it assumes there is no backtround-image. also, the element you want is background-image (not plural). try this instead <body style="background: url(stars.gif) no-repeat;">or<body style="background-image:url(image.gif); background-repeat:no-repeat;"> -mpoer

like I said, PSPad is great Check it out, it has a ton of languages, too.

yeah that's what I thought, too... I just can't figure out what it's for! I guess I'll ask wordpress forums and/or the theme creator.anyone else have a wordpress blog with this on it?

all I can say is that the browser will try it's hardest to render whatever you put into it, especially when there's no doctype declared.example: myspace.com/any_user_that_has_a_non_default_profilebut just because you can do it doesn't make it right. stick with standards and keep your <style> in the head section. if everyone cops out and uses crap code, then the standards will never be recognized and the web will ultimatly explode! ohz noz teh w3b eXpl0ded!

wow.. we missed about 50,000 on here....I <3 open sourceHere's a few of my favorites:PSPadFree (freeware)Platform: Windows 98,ME,2000,XPhttp://www.pspad.comNanoFree (open source)Platform: linux, with many portshttp://www.nano-editor.org/NEdit (Nirvana Text Editor)Free (open source)Platform: linux, with many portshttp://www.nedit.org/Bluefish Web Development StudioFree (open source)Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD, Solaris and Tru64 (no windows!)http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.htmlIf I'm on a windows machine, I'll grab a copy of PSPad and go to town. It's really great and free so give it a shot. If I'm on a linux machine (and usually I am), Bluefish is good for sitting down for awhile, but for a quick fix I'll probably use NEdit because it loads faster. If i'm stuck in command line linux I use Nano.Other's I've used:Beaver (Early AdVanced EditoR)free (open source)platforms: Linux/unix/windowshttp://www.nongnu.org/beaver/well, not gonna list any more. I just found this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

Well, everything about wordpress 2.0 and the theme I'm using seems to be perfect CSS 2.0 and XHTML 1 except for this funky element, <cr>.I've never heard of the cr element, google found the w3school page about carriage return, so I'm wondering if it has anything to do with that... but it's an xhtml element?Can anyone shed some light on this? I don't want to edit all of wordpress 2.0 to take it out if it can be avoided.(my blog is here: http://thinktank.ichyware.net:81/ )

very intersting.i've heard that the NSA has it's own linux distro, so I would have figured they'd run apache/php/mysql or some open source stuff.

wait, all the site's tuts were written by one person?holy poop!

nothing wrong with having a bit of a joke. i think it'll help people when they get all stressed over some code that won't work right.