Keen to start up a web site. How do we know what web technology will meet our needs?
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OK as long as what we are talking about is simple presentation needs all you need to know is HTML and CSS in today's world you do not even need to know that as you can graphically design your site using graphic design interfaces like macromedia MX or Front-Page. If you are talking about a more complex site one that is dynamic I.E. changes its content based on a programming language that runs in the background and usually involves a data base to store data. \nPHP and MySQL like any other tool in the world has its advantages and disadvantages.\nPHP and MySQL are open source platform just like Linux. Usually runs on a Linux machine with Apache or tomcat servers (can be run on windows servers but not recommended). Some of the main advantages of such a setup are:\n*It is completely free almost no investment in software.\n*Very fast and easy to develop and is universal.\n*Very versatile as to its capabilities.\nMain disadvantages: \n*MySQL does not support triggering. I.E needs a lot of compensation on the PHP side of things to achieve the same things MSSQL can do by itself.\n*PHP is not completely object oriented and is incapable of doing certain client side tasks like java script can.\n*MySQL is limited in the size of the data base it supports and is relatively smaller then MS SQL servers (it still supports enormous amount of data and I find it well sufficient for most applications).\n\nYour other options include Microsoft solutions which are more expensive software wise slower in development and maintenance. But in the long run have much more capabilities then PHP and MySQL. \nAgain as the lady before me said it all depends on your specific needs and what you want to achieve with your website.
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You need some kind of content management system (CMS), some database access system, an e-mail management system, a DNS management system and perhaps, a configuration management console.
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You'll know soon enough.\n\nOnly thing is, your site'll have to be pretty well known.
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You could use joomla, which is a Content Management System. You can manage a site, publish information, sign in and even add more features by installing simple modules. Alls you need is an webserver supporting php and a mySQL server (most likely on the same computer).
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Make sure you website is a secure as you can make it. The damage done by stolen information can never really be fixed. Also, make sure it is easily searchable. Design the site for usability and functionality. Ensure that everything is as categorized as possible, imagine you were searching for your own products, what would you want to see?
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There really isn't any difference in describing what you need to a web developer or a software developer. They will both be looking for (if they are worth describing the problem to) in no particular order:\n1. context diagrams that define how the external interfaces interact with your system,\n2. what the requirements (functional, non-functional, constraints) of the system,\n3. a flow chart describing how the user interacts with your front-end,\n4. how you want the data to be stored,\n5. a set of well defined business rules have always helped me,\n6. describe what your vision of the application is, the goals and what you hope to accomplish in the future with it (this will help the developer make strong decisions may affect any future modifications and extensibility of the application).\n\nMy best recommendation to you is to just lay everything and anything you can think of down on the table. Obviously, do it after you've deemed them worthy of the job.
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A wise man once told me, "Fast, good and cheap. Pick two."\n\nIf you need it fast and you need it all, it isn't going to be cheap. That said, for what you want, you are best off hiring a consultant who will work out the details for you, rather than trying to find a single Web host or the like. \n\nThe skills you want are disparate enough so that you'll need several providers to do it right. A consultant who knows what he is doing will be able to find what you are after.
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Learn C then C ++ then C#\n\nIf you only want to create a comertial site then you need to think of wath is the most important feature you need to have.\n\nSpeed: learn C++, HTML and PHP.\nPortability: Java.\nDatabase Acces: VB and ASP.
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About 60 % of small businesses see value in creating web sites for marketing and in e-commerce.\n\nSome of the issues facing development are what plat form do i use do i include flash tecnology and what vendor do i use for the e-commerce component.  it has to be user friendly and current at all times which means regular updating,  You must also alow user to give feed back and or have a help feature built in.\n\nThey see this as a very valuable asset to their business as the internet is becoming the fastest growing medium for any business and users are very comfortable in using this medium.
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1. A relevant domain name to the public you address. \n2. A good design that easy to navigate(must point anywhere in the site in max. 4 clicks), a good marketing inside(if you want to sell/promo something).\n3. A clean code that follows the W3C standards, so it can be viewed by users who don't browse with IE.\n4. Decent in kb size. A huge site that is all of the above is nothing if it's to big to load, and people will walk away, instead of waiting.\n5. Intuitive. Must be well structured, for your users to easily find what they are looking.\n6. A good host. If your website will be down frequently, you will lose the potential clients that have visited your site while it was offline.
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I would recommend using a Content Management System. Joomla is very good. It can easily help you build a dynamic site with lots of functionality. We've done a lot of Joomla sites and could help setting it up and all that.
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a short question, and a 'tricky' situation.\n\n1.  Do you want a domain name that is all your own?  This will run with Q2, but, you need to decide if you want www.yahoo.com/mypage or www.mydomain.com.\n\n2.  Pick a host.  there are many, many (did I mention many) places to host web sites.  Some are free, some cost an arm and a leg.  You need to determine what you want to pay, what traffic you expect, and what pains you are willing to endure (see any Geocities page with their little nag).  also, what do you want for CGI, scripts, mail-to, database, web reports, etc.  Last, with respect to the pages themselves, do you want to build it, or pay someone else to do it.\n\nif you look on Yahoo or Google, I'd suggest you look for:\n\nDNS Host Registrants\nWeb Site Hosting\nWeb Site development\n\nThose three topics should get you a ton of hits, but, you really need to go into this knowing what your own expectations are.  If its a page for static (non-changing) content that a dozen people will visit, your needs will be different than if you are looking to create a full bore site with ecommerce, identity management, and security (SSL, logins, etc.).\n\nUltimately, if all of the above sounds greek to you, then I strongly suggest you find someone in the business to bounce idea's off of.  Most technical sales people at hosting companies will be relatively forthcoming with information about what is possible as relates to what you want (if you are willing to listen to their sales pitch).\n\nand that does not even begin to address the look and feel aspects of a site (where the two schools of programatic and artistic development tend to clash over 'what is the best' and ultimately you should have a solid idea of what you want before you ask someone to build it for you).
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I recommend hosting on a Linux Apache server. Use HTML, and PHP for the actual programming of the website. Use a mysql database for any database requirements.\n\nThese are the most commonly used and widely support options for a website. Unless your website grows to an enormous size, any good host should be fine. Try hostgator. They're reasonable priced and offer good reliability and support.\n\nContent would totally be up to you. You can make everything from scratch, or you can use pre-made CMS or Blogging platforms. If you choose the blogging route, I recommend wordpress.
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anyone can create a website. Depending on how much time you have to devote to the website, will depend on how ascetically pleasing to the eye the web site is. \nUnless you are using a program such as front page, you will have to have a knowledge of at least HTML, if you don't have this knowledge, there are several good websites available to help you.  One such website is http://www.htmlgoodies.com.   You can start there with the html tutorials and proceed from there. \nAs far as hosting the web site, personal opinion would be to develop the site, before pricing the hosting plan.  Depending on how long it actually takes you to create the site and then what design elements you have chosen to incorporate will make choosing the hosting plan easier. Please let us know how it goes.
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Good idea\nI would say, collect good information and divide into many groups according to different tourist attractions (safari, nature, walks, beaches, snow, sports, religios etc). YOu can either make the site on Microsoft frontpage and launch it or got to geocities in yahoo and get a free website (although with few restrictions).\nThat is all I have to say with a generalised question like this.\nCheers\nAndy
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hi\n   1st of all you need to create you site form a webdesiner and he will host you site.
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1) First determine the objective of your website...whether its going to be a online photo album or a page about you and your family or a page about your passions say sports ( :) )...\n2) Once you decide what you want to make it on decide what all you are going to put up\n3) Once you are sure about what all you are going to put up (eg what pics,what text ..what scripts will you be using and all)..search for a good free web host which supports these features (Features such as a ftp client which will allow you to upload your pics,supports the kind of scripting you want like flash,javascript,cgi etc..)\n\nsome good ones are geocties.com,lycos.com,\nbravenet.com,pages.google.com( you will need a gmail id for google pages )\n\n4) Lot of these free web hosts provide website builders which have predefined templates to allow you create a decent website easily and quickly..if you are satisfied with that..well and good..but if you want some more customization then I suggest you get a free WYSIWYG HTML editor such as NVU ..(if you have microsoft frontpage already well and good..its quite good)..\n\n5) Using the editor you can easily create a website ..learning a bit of HTML to improve the site appearance wont harm anything..\n6) If you really want to spice up your website then i suggest you can implement some javascript ...you can learn it and do it or download the scripts from the net and put it on your site..here are some sites which have a lot of good scripts with various functionalities\n\n1) http://www.javascriptkit.com/\n2) http://www.a1javascripts.com/\n3)http://www.java-scripts.net/\n\n4) http://www.javafile.com/\n\n\nsome good html tutorials for your reference are \n\nhttp://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/\nhttp://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html.html\nhttp://founderweb.com/html_tutorial/\nhttp://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp\n\nHappy building