web development

[lunaz]

i'm not sure what forum this belongs in, so feel free to move. :P

i was a web developer off & on from 1997 to 2005. i taught myself html and some css, and did it for work on occasion. i stopped using wysiwyg editors in 1997. i haven't had time to learn anything new since then other than installing php forums and the occasional mod, but now will make time.

my interest is accessibility and usability and content... :P i'll start by recoding or converting what i have so it validates.

where/how should i pick back up? i'm sorta looking around for books but not real sure anymore. i have eric meyer on css that i got half way through before life started to happen. :P is it still a good idea to redo that one or is there better out there now? i remember having issues with it. some of his examples didn't work even, so of course mine didn't either...

[Wybiral]

Stick with the standards: http://w3schools.com/

[pmasiar]

Web is becoming more interactive - AJAX is all the rage for the web2.0 thing.

Do you want to learn AJAX and some backend, or you want to stick to HTML/CSS?

[lunaz]

well, for my needs either html/css would work, or some kind of cms thingy.

web servers also interest me.

[llanitedave]

If servers and web development interests you, you might check out tools such as TurboGears (http://turbogears.org/about/), pylons (http://pylonshq.com/), or django (http://www.djangoproject.com/).

[loell]

warning: installing turbogears from fiesty repo will bork your apt

[pmasiar]

you need install the version from TG website, using TG installer script.

TG develops rapidly, and repo has obsolete versions which nobody uses or cares - just use current TG stable.

This problem is common to most rapidly developing systems, IMHO, not specific to TG.