Calling all professional web site designers?
ok this is my 3rd web design question in half an hour because I am confusing myself and going off on tangents!!….
Im going to be as direct and simple as possible.
I need a site which will take user profiles, similar to how like a dating site does, except not a dating site!
People will need to verify themselves before entering infomation in their profile.
People searching or browsing profiles will also need to verify themselves although they will have the option of wether or not they have a profile, where as the users wont.
Their will be two catagories for people, people with profiles and people who browse the profiles… (I cnt say much more but I promise it makes sense!)
There will need to be also, something like yahoo answers has with different topics, so different catagories emerge and are chosen for different users….
I know nothing about how to start, the info available is overwhelming and I dont want to stuff it up.
How do u tell the dif btween simple html and hard?
The reason I ask is the price difference…. I read that simple html is easy therefore costs less but incorprating things like flash are harder…
Which would mine fall under?
Simple HTML can only be used to design simple web sites (i.e., those without "smart" features like a log-in and profile database). For more complex features (like what you describe) you will probably need to incorporate a server-side database (like SQL or MySQL) and a server-side scripting language to interface with the database (like PHP, ColdFusion, or ASP). You will not need Flash (to do what you describe, at least); however, to make a particularly good site you will definitely need to use CSS (to style your HTML), and you will probably also end up using JavaScript and XML (to streamline your "smart" features).
In short, to make a good site that has the features you described, you will need HTML to form the skeleton of the visible site, CSS to stylize the HTML so that it looks good, a database (like SQL or MySQL) to hold the user information, and a server-side scripting language (like PHP) to perform data-handling functions.
You can learn about HTML (http://www.w3schools.com/html) and CSS (http://www.w3schools.com/css/) from the W3C Schools, and you can learn about PHP from PHP.net (http://www.php.net/).
January 9th, 2010 at 11:29 am
How do you plan on hosting this site?
(Were is the site going to be stored ? What server)
Pure HTML won’t let you create that dynamic of a web site. You will need some type of server side code like ASP.NET.
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January 9th, 2010 at 11:58 am
You are definitely looking for an advanced project. If you were to attempt to use simple html, you would need to build an individual file for every single profile. That is THOUSANDS of files and doesn’t make much sense.
A professional programmer will use a programming language to code your site and make it interact with a database (like PHP and MySQL). So it will effectively use one file to present the same data (like a profile) for lots of different users.
The reason why you are going to get high quotes for this design job is because for every place you want the person to give you their personal information, there has to be a form for them to both enter that data and then have the ability to edit it. Then that data has to be able to relate in the database to provide meaningful results to other users.
It’s not rocket science, but it is time consuming, and with programmers, that’s what you pay for, their time.
As for the flash, incorporating it isn’t hard. What you typically pay for is the person to build the flash object, which uses a programming language and advanced graphic skills. On your project, Flash would just be something to make the site pretty. What you need is a server side programming language like PHP, ASP, or Ruby.
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January 9th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
You can’t make a site like that with HTML.
You will need someone who can code PHP or ASP with a database system.
Its going to cost you because it takes a long time to learn the languages, and even longer to get good enough to make a site of that scale.
Just remember when you hire a web developer… you get what you pay for..
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January 9th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Simple HTML can only be used to design simple web sites (i.e., those without "smart" features like a log-in and profile database). For more complex features (like what you describe) you will probably need to incorporate a server-side database (like SQL or MySQL) and a server-side scripting language to interface with the database (like PHP, ColdFusion, or ASP). You will not need Flash (to do what you describe, at least); however, to make a particularly good site you will definitely need to use CSS (to style your HTML), and you will probably also end up using JavaScript and XML (to streamline your "smart" features).
In short, to make a good site that has the features you described, you will need HTML to form the skeleton of the visible site, CSS to stylize the HTML so that it looks good, a database (like SQL or MySQL) to hold the user information, and a server-side scripting language (like PHP) to perform data-handling functions.
You can learn about HTML (http://www.w3schools.com/html) and CSS (http://www.w3schools.com/css/) from the W3C Schools, and you can learn about PHP from PHP.net (http://www.php.net/).
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January 9th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
You don’t flash for your website…atleast not for getting the functions you want in your site.
From what i see from your description you are talking about user forms and their submission.
You make HTML forms, user enter their data in all the required fields, data is validated (no incorrect or missing enteries), and then it is submitted by the user and your website saves it to a database.
I am not sure what kind of user verification you are talking about…if you are talking user logins. that is done through forms too. by compared the entered password with the same in your database for the given user. If verified they are allowed to see the profile editing area.
Types of people would mean "Session tracking" in technical terms. for each visitor of the website a session will be created and tracked to keep track of what pages he visited.
In short, it’s a web application you are talking about here.. to get started you should know about
-web applications
-HTML forms , creation and submission - get and post method
-Java script (to do data validation on forms)
-saving contents of an HTML form into a database
-retrieving data from a database and using in a form (e.g in a password checking screen)
- Sessions- creation and tracking, types of sessions
These are the technical sides of site creation. There are other things as well when it comes to deploying the website and also issues like which technologies to use (ASP etc)
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January 9th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
In my opinion, it is not just a simple html. It will be a web application because it includes information gathering which you have to interact with database. Most of the website I know they did it with php and mysql but other platforms can be use such as asp or asp.net or j2ee with jsp page. It needs programing language so the price may differ from simple html.
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