Re: [Staffslug] Websites, there's some dross out there!
Some of you may know (OK Kevan knows) I create and sell websites some
are
standard HTML usually created in Front Page or Joomla. I have no PHP
skills and would probably struggle to create one with just a text editor.
If you're working as a professional web designer, I think it would be well
worth your while learning to code by hand. HTML isn't hard at all. PHP is
perhaps a little harder, but once you've spent a little time learning
you'll find it's a delightful language to use. You might well find that if
you learn to write code by hand, you'll never use FrontPage again.
Here are some sites you may find useful (if you don't know of them already):
Validators to check your coding (out of interest, you can see if what your
current editor produces is standards compliant):
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Some really thorough HTML and PHP resources:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
http://www.php.net/
Happy coding!
Best wishes,
Chris