Web designing

[dreamhacker]

Ok. I'm gonna make myself a little webpage. Not anything big or something. Have started to design it, but how can I add effects to buttons and such? And what language should I use; HTML, PHP or something else?

[MyrrhLynn]

Haha, those are such loaded questions. XD Web Design is actually slightly more complicated then most people realize. You have to learn a lot of stuff before you can do cool things. None of it is really hard though so you should be fine.

Well you HAVE to know HTML to make a webpage. Even if you used PHP you would also have to use HTML to make it work. To "add effects" you have a couple of choices. You could make stuff in Flash (but that's a whole new program to learn). You could make rollovers in Dreamweaver or Photoshop. Or Javascript has some rollover "change effects" abilities.

[dreamhacker]

Well, I won't start learning flash yet, but what I wanna do is to have button that are a little behind each other, and the one you put your mouse over comes in front. Like having more layers or something. Maybe I'll just start of without the fancy effects :p

[~Natsumi Lam~]

i like dreamweaver.... but you got to know HTML too.
Flash is good for effects....

~NL~

[Kaligraphic]

You could use xhtml instead of html.

But you'll also want to know CSS2 for styles and positioning, javascript for client-side scripting, and something like php/perl/whatever for server-side scripting. (You could even do the server-side stuff in C if you want to, but that's more difficult than it needs to be.)