For getting your skills going I would suggest any light weight "text editor" such as Coffeecup ($50.oo for v-2008, there is also a free version, as well as a free trial of the 2008...)
An oldie but good free entry level program is evrsoft First Page 2000 http://www.evrsoft.com (the 2006 paid version seems to have a lot of problems that are not being fixed according to the forum, but you can find the original Front Page 2000 version at *reliable* download sites). (Note: If your AV program complains about a virus it's the "Cookie From ...Heck", and you just delete it. It was a joke from the original programmers.
MS has some nice complicated offerings like Visual Studio, also the original Front Page (both take custom settings on your web server). OR, if you're interested in getting to know the nuts and bolts of a webpage, just use your free MS Notepad (or other text editor if you use another OS) with any browser, flip between the two and start from scratch. There are several free html instruction sites such as http://www.all-html.com/.
If you need further ideas, feel free to PM.
Hello, I'm new here to the forum. Hope someone can offer some insight. I've been working towards graduating for web development, design and programming. I know a lot of designers put a lot of hard work into their sites. Aside from them, I keep coming across postings from "newbies" that have created their first layout. No education, little to no knowledge of html, and they are all awsome sites. Very proffessional. Am I missing something, are they templates? Should I just give up on college?????
Many of today's webmasters and programmers have been self-taught. That said, one of the best programmers I ever ran across had no "sheepskin" for his resume for the really good jobs. 'Self taught' carries very little value with CEO's scanning applicant resumes. On the other hand, by finishing your university training, and making sure you include all phases important to the secure management of a large system, you will have a good fighting chance against the other applicants for the jobs you may want. Especially with good grades in significant fields.
Think of it this way; fini$h college = get$ more dough. :)
At least, that's mho.
Ill tell them you are 50% responsible because you gave me the code so they could upload it:lol:
All joking aside, DMR is absolutely correct in his caution. Especially on a sports site, the temptation of visitors posting their favorite or exciting photos of game events, taken by professional photographers or photographers for hire by news organizations, would be extremely likely.
I would not want to be the webmaster, the host, or the owner of a site that uploaded unauthorized copyrighted (and it's copyrighted as soon as the photo is taken, no notice is normally required...) materials of any kind. Now, if the uploading fan personally shot the photo, and uploads a digital version of it, that's no problem. But you have to trust them when they say it's theirs. If you end up with a valuable shot that was not authorized for uploading it could very quickly spoil all the fun you expected to have for running your favorite website.
Don't want to be a spoil-sport, but that's the way it is. Good luck with whatever you decide to do, or how you decide to control it. ;)
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Have to agree (mostly) with Zeroth, PayPal is a *major* international financial player and cannot afford to get a *valid* reputation of messing up peoples bank accounts. There is a lot of negative reports on the internet regarding PayPal, however I am not convinced they are not largely the result of problems *not* created by PayPal.
"With that said", ;-) I have made a couple of telephone contacts with major (thousands of sales, 99.99-100-percent green comments) sellers on eBay as a result of winning bids on their items. Without fail, they say that their problem is having a 'buyer' later (few days) make a cancellation of payment with PayPal, falsely claiming anything that would normally get a sale cancelled. Also, without fail, the merchant has an amount equal to the sale 'frozen' in his account which of course makes it unavailable to him. Also, without fail, the 'buyer' does not return the merchandise, so the seller is out of his merchandise besides all the hassel of being conned.
OK, fast forward to a conversation I had with a PayPal account manager on behalf of one of my webhosting clients. He explained that they (PayPal) dilligently try to negotiate such arguments between sellers and buyers, trying to be fair to both and keep both from getting scammed. He said they had recently established several offices solely for the timely resolution of these difficulties. (Which, I suspect, are an extremely small sub-percentage of total sales.)
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Becoming listed as a seller on eBay is a tad more difficult than becoming a buyer. Here's about how it works:
You either have to become a PayPal customer which btw includes PayPal access into a checking acount you own. *or*, you can elect to be certified as existing by an SSL CA, usually Verisign I believe. What eBay is trying to do is prevent shady sellers. Not a perfect system, but about as good as you can figure out with high speed commerce between people who do not know each other.
The problems of reliability of both buyers and sellers, and the candy and cavity of methods of payment is a subject for more detailed discussion and alternatives. Hope this helps.