Question by Justin: What programming/markup/other languages must I know to design a dating site?
I taught myself X/HTML two years ago and have since designed 2 hobby websites. I plugged phpBB into them but have no experience with coding PHP and didn’t mess with any of the code obviously. The forum’s built-in administrative control panel was enough for my interests at the time. Since then I have been trying to teach myself Java (not script) and have gotten most of the basics down, so I think the principles of programming would at least make me somewhat familiar and competent enough for the challenge.

I am pretty sure PHP would be something I would have to read up on and learn…are there other languages or other skills that anyone knowledgeable in the field would direct me towards what I need to have under my belt to make this happen? I know it would probably be a fair bit of stuff to learn but I’m ok with that.

No advice on the pros and cons of outsourcing please. I am firm about going solo and learning everything necessary to do so. Again keep in mind my “resume” is simply X/HTML / CSS / JAVA with 2 live websites via Filezilla. You could throw GIMP in there but its a bit of a given that I’d have experience with image manipulation software of some sort. So with that said, again, what do I need to learn still?

Thanks in advance for your input 🙂

Best answer:

Answer by mdigitale
There are several technologies you can use.

Generally you will see MySQL/PHP/HTML/CSS

SqlServer/ASP.net is also common with businesses

If you want to improve your client side presentation you might also look into AJAX, HTML5, etc.

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