Re: Is there a more basic tutorial?

I understand, thanks for the advice everyone. -Byron

On Apr 26, 5:24 pm, Lachlan Musicman <data...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:34, byront <byronthies...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I went through the beginners tutorial and am interested in Django. I
> > new to web development altogether and am having trouble finding
> > resources to help me make a very basic but professional looking page.
> > Something similar to this yacht club pagehttp://bhyc.on.ca/with a
> > banner, menus that change on scroll over, several static pages, and a
> > front page with rotating information.
>
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> As Shawn says, the underlying HTML and CSS is probably a good place to
> start for an understanding of how the whole web system works. Django
> is what I would call a third generation web dev platform, with first
> gen being html/css via notepad or nvu/dreamweaver. Second generation
> would be the CMS mob: wordpress, joomla, drupal, etc.
>
> None of these will really help you witha lot of the other stuff you
> will need to know - web servers (apache, nginx, lighttpd), CGI, etc.
> If you are not a computer scientist or not planning on being one, and
> want simple: try wordpress. If you are planning on being a computer
> scientist of some description, learn html and css (and then move onto
> django).
>
> cheers
> L.
>
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