Hello!

 

New to forum and not much to say about myself. I'm a former pc/oc enthusiast/gamer and now a casual family guy that loves to spend free time outside playing with kid and taking a lot of photos.

 

Recently the company that i worked for 7 years (as CAD slave) went "kaput" so i moved to administration and now i have bunch of free time on my plate as work hours are far better. (07-15).

As i mentioned i did 80% of time a CAD work and when able i was helping web dev folks with front end design as i'm quite good with PS and AI (at least i like to believe i am as none complained) and in the process i mastered HTML, CSS and learned basics in Java and C# and started learning JS.

 

Now that i'm doing mostly paperwork i started to miss doing stuff related to web design/development (don't miss CAD a bit tho) and i decided to learn it properly along with photography.

 

I’d like to set my own page from scratch and make something like protected (with login) photo gallery for a start as we live quite far from our parents and would like to keep them up to date with photos. (i know there are sites/services where i can simply upload photos and share but that’s not my goal).

 

I would appreciate a bunch if You could point me in right direction and suggest things needed for a new developer as i’m getting overwhelmed with all the info but the force is strong here

(basically a bunch of things that i would need in my arsenal to learn web dev)

 

• hosting (maybe home server for a start?)

• server side / back end coding language? (don’t need anything bleeding edge, just something that would help someone new, easier to understand and progress along with)

• CMS (wordpress?)

• anything else?

 

p.s. i have licence for both Adobe CS6 and Visual Studio and use sublime for most of text editing.

 

I know it’s a wall of text and some things are new to me but also seem essential to whole process... but i’d really like to learn it and start from scratch with my own project and skip drag and drop solutions as i’m in no hurry.

 

Thank you in advance!

 

Rugrat

ok thanks

Welcome to the forums

 

First off learn HTML (document structure) and CSS (presentaion), they are the foundation of everything on the web, you won't get far without them.

 

hosting (maybe home server for a start?)

 

Home servers for publicly accessible sites are more hassle than it's worth, go for a good quality hosting service (search forums for suggested hosts). You can develop locally though by installing WAMP/MAMP or XMAPP (basically installing an Apache server on your PC).

 

server side / back end coding language? (don’t need anything bleeding edge, just something that would help someone new, easier to understand and progress along with)

 

 

PHP is the most used, though there are many others

 

CMS (wordpress?)

 

There's plenty of choice with CMS's - Wordpress, Statamic, Craft, ExpressionEngine... the list goes on. Which one really depends on your aims and skill levels.

Welcome to WDF

I agree with BlueDreamer about learning HTML/CSS first. But WAMP and the suggested CMS's might not be the best for you as they are all PHP.

Since you already are using Visual Studio and can code C# I would suggest a .NET CMS.

Umbraco is an open source lightweight .NET CMS. it's all coded in C# and is very easy to configure.

Here is a link to the easiest way to install it on your local machine.

However .NET hosting tend to be more expensive than PHP and PHP is much more widespread (meaning it's easier to find help on forums like this)

Edited April 12, 201511 yr by Nillervision

Welcome to WDF.

 

I would recommend you to consider WordPress CMS and you can find many web hosting providers who have separate WordPress plans.