[Gllug] Web design

[Tethys]

Karanbir Singh writes:

>Vim ? and a bit of the Gimp ?

Seconded. If you've never written HTML from scratch before, then I
recommend O'Reilly's "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide" (no surprise
there). Unless you have a good reason to do so, avoid XHTML and just
stick with HTML.

Separate presentation from content wherever possible (which means
making use of CSS anywhere and everywhere[1]). If you're site will be
purely static content, then that's all you need to know. You might
want to consider looking at Server Side Includes to avoid duplicating
common page elements throughout the site.

If you need dynamic content, then yes, look at PHP. But for a first
attempt at a web site, you probably want to stick to just static
content.

Tet

[1] O'Reilly do an excellent CSS book too, but to be honest, just reading
    the specs is probably good enough: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
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