Choosing the right technology for web design

tweety123 · #1 Jun 8th, 2006, 15:23

Hi,
For designing a e-shop like web site, what's a good technology to use?
Any ideas? There are lots of technologies like PHP, Perl, Java, etc. Confused on what to choose!

Thanks.

ukgeoff · #2 Jun 8th, 2006, 15:43

That's a bit like how long is a piece of string?

Depends on what your background is.

How much of the techy stuff do you already know?

Are you trying to build from scratch or to incorporate a shopping cart package from somewhere else?

Big site, small site?

???

tweety123 · #3 Jun 9th, 2006, 06:38

Hi,

Sorry about the vague question. Am trying to build from scratch. I do know Java. But I heard that there are a lot more languages to build the site like Perl, PHP, etc (scripting languages) which I heard might be easier to do the job. Wanted to know comments from those who have designed similar websites & what was there experience with the technology they used.

Thanks.

ukgeoff · #4 Jun 9th, 2006, 09:13

Well for starting out, I suggest you make your building blocks:

xhtml 1.0 strict
css
PHP
MySQL

That way you can code to standards compliance, will have all the tools you need to build some really good sites plus you will have a grounding on what's going on for the many open source packages out there, typically using a combination of PHP and MySQL, that you may wish to incorporate into your site(s).

Get a good handle on accessibility issue as well.

tweety123 · #5 Jun 9th, 2006, 10:38

Thanks a lot!

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