Re: [Sheflug] Web development help

[Peter Humphrey <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 January 2009 13:42:59 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Peter
>
> > Also, a decent book on developing a site and configuring apache and
> > mysql would be useful; not too elementary, but not taking too much
> > knowledge for granted either. I have ideas about putting pictures,
> > personal descriptions, event schedules etc. into a database from
> > which to fill the pages at display time.
>
> Whilst I find that some of the O'Reilly books can be a bit strange at
> times (even Tim O'Reilly agrees with that) I find that the Wrox books
> can be very good for web development.  At the beginner level anyway.
> Not for advanced users who are more critical...
>
> http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/
> http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/Web.id-105066.html
>
> I've got one of their old HTML books which served me well when I was
> learning about HTML editing...
>
> http://www.sheflug.org.uk/html40.htm
>
> This might be the more recent version...
>
> http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Beginning-Web-Programming-with-
> HTML-XHTML-and-CSS.productCd-0764570781.html

Mm. Interesting; I'll look into those - thanks.

Should I be considering ruby and/or rails?

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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