languages to lurn

**activex22** · 12th October 2002

someone told me to lurn html,php and
javascript as they are the most useful
languages to fully lurn.at the moment
i am lurning html and i would like to lurn
php and javascript after.he also told me
not to lurn cgi.what i would like to know
is will i only need to know html,php and
javascript.i also seen somewhere that
php and mysql are for database websites
so if i lurned php can i forget about mysql
and also i heared that cgi and perl are nearly
the same so would perl be a waste of time to
lurn.any help greatly received.

activex22

**graham.edmon** · 13th October 2002

HTML is technically a language, it describes layout and has no logical methods or instructions.

JavaScript, is a language that goes with HTML (i.e. it runs only in the browser)

PHP is technically CGI, it works in a similar way, however it is just the way the folders are organised that give people the misapprehention that CGI and PHP are different. CGI isn't a language but a method of implementing code, CGI could be code written in Perl, C, Cobol or any language that happens to be on the box.. you could write it in AWK if you wanted too.

If you are wanting to do web design then

Learn HTML first
JavaScript second
CSS third

Then once you are comfortable with all of the above then, go for PHP or Perl or ASP. ASP is probably one of the easiest to learn.

**activex22** · 14th October 2002

thank's graham.edmon.just one more
question what is the(css)is that
cascading style sheets.

cheers

activex22

**hxbro** · 14th October 2002

yep, see www.w3.org for the specs on css and html.

Hx

**activex22** · 14th October 2002

thanks hxbro for the link.i took a
look at dave raggetts intro to css
i could follow it until i got to the
colors bit.also about 2 weeks ago
i came across it when i was lurning
html.is there something to help me
to lurn colors.a friend told me you can
cheat a little by typeing the color "blue"
instead of this "#ooooff"but you dont
get all colors.if someone knows a way
i can lurn colors i would be most gratefull

thanks

activex22

**graham.edmon** · 15th October 2002

try this, there are only a certain number of colours which are guarenteed to be the same over all platforms and browsers, these are called web safe colours

a colour attribute takes a value in hexidecimal of the format

RRGGBB

RR = Red
GG = Green
BB = Blue

Web safe values are 00,33,66,99,CC,FF for either of the constituent parts 00 is the lowest FF the highest, the higher the value the sharper and brighter the colour..

see here http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html

**molacka** · 15th October 2002

Originally posted by activex22
.if someone knows a way
i can lurn colors i would be most gratefull

An easy way to get the hex value of a colour you want is to use Word, set the Word doc to the colour you want and select save as html, then view the code produced for the colour code.

**xdam** · 15th October 2002

i use adobe photoshop to grab the hex value.

**activex22** · 15th October 2002

cheers graham.edmon for link.i used
front page 2000 and put a colour in
the html and then viewed it in normal
then in preview it was the same colour.
but when i changed 2 letters that was
not web safe it was a different colour
in preview.also by puting an extra f in
the colour blue made it get brighter.i
understand it a little now.also thanks
to molacka and xdam for telling me an
easyer way.

thanks

activex22

**hxbro** · 16th October 2002

Here is a colour table for you :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...asp?frame=true

I also use the msdn html and css reference, its pretty good in my opinion.

Hx