How is website creating now?

[RCBH928]

I learned to make website back in like '98
and for the longest time i stopped working on them
I was wondering how websites are created now

do they still use the index.html for the main site
and a text editor to make website?

do they still use tables to position things around or is it CSS now?

is there anything else necessary any one should learn to create a modern website?

Any new application WYSIWYG making it actually easier to create a site than working with html code?
People still upload their sites using regular ftp?

I heard wordpress can do everything for you now, not sure though
love to hear from the guys who know more about this

[brunoafh]

With Geocities out of the picture, everything has gone to hell...

[SpaceBooger]

Most everything is CSS and PHP, but I use text editors (notepad) to edit those. Some things change some stay the same.

I do recommend WordPress. Spacebooger.com is Wordpress, the Racketboy main site is Wordpress, I helped Ken Horowitz ogranize the menu of the new sega-16.com and it's Wordpress. Everyone is doing it!

So it is safe to say if you can edit and customize wordpress, it is the way to go and the sky is the limit.

[YoshiEgg25]

It definitely depends on what you want to do.

Wordpress can do just about everything you throw at it. It has a ridiculous amount of plugins and it's customizable to a larger point than anything else out there. I don't really even use it on my site, but I use it as a news page and to link to my forums and wiki.

If you're looking into forum software, I highly recommend MyBB. Racketboy runs on phpBB, but it's difficult to customize and comes with very few options. MyBB is essentially the Wordpress of forum software, with a bunch of available plugins to help make it your thing.

It's hard for us to know exactly what you want when we don't know what you're looking to do.

[RCBH928]

@brunoafh
hahaha i actually think the web was better with geocities...at least each site has different information
now they are like only 5 main sites for each subject, with info copied from each other...
what is geocities replacement now?
closest I got is blogspot

@Spacebooger
thanx on the wordpress tip, i didnt think it was so capable
would u say there is still a reason to write websites in code?

@YoshiEgg25

thanx for the reply
am not really looking to make anything just wondering how did website making evolve, what do people use, ftp...etc

I am amazed u recommend MyBB , i always thought vbulliten is the way to go
but yet again, its do damn expensive!

[SpaceBooger]

@Spacebooger
thanx on the wordpress tip, i didnt think it was so capable
would u say there is still a reason to write websites in code?

As Yoshi mentioned the code work is in the "themes" and "plug-ins" for wordpress. I know a little of how css and php calls from it so I can edit code to customize themes. So I would say those how design themes, plug-ins, or any customization site (forum or blog software) like wordpress still write in code, just not html.

[RCBH928]

i guess I am old
i usually open something like notepad and start writing the code for an HTML site

how would you compare the difficulty of php or CSS to HTML?

[skate323k137]

vBulletin, while very functional, is a fucking resource hog like none other. You can run an optimized phpBB forum on a virtual server with less than a gig of ram. Sure, if it's busy, you'll need more hardware than that. Busy VB sites require some serious hardware. Trying to run VB on anything less than a decent dedicated server is a nightmare (and laughable). Not to mention the database corruption issues I've seen with it in that situation.

IMO the days of coding static sites in HTML are long gone. Even custom PHP coding has its caveats. PHP is going to be harder than HTML but it's far more capable for sites with dynamic content, which is pretty much what everyone needs nowadays. I'd personally stick with supported projects (like wordpress) that get attention to security issues and such. If you pay some developer to make you a "custom" PHP site, and then find out a year later it's getting hacked to hell, there's no telling what you'll have to pay them to "fix" everything. With wordpress, I click one button, it updates itself, and I don't have to worry or pay anyone.

Also, Yes, a lot of people still use FTP to upload their stuff.

Bear in mind, I'm not a website designer. I work for a hosting company, so I get to see what other people design, and what kinds of servers they put their content on.

off on the security tangent again, I also get to see when "custom" sites get hacked all to hell, or what happens when people don't update their software. 95% of the "hacks" I see are either just weak passwords, or applications like joomla, oscommerce, and zencart that people never installed the updates/patches for. Reading the documentation for any website framework you install is critical. Something that takes 30 seconds to do can save you from getting hacked to bits. I probably deal with 15 hacked outdated osCommerce sites a week.

[BRIK]

CSS is defiantly a must to learn in this day and age.

[RCBH928]

@Brik
is it used for positioning things around the site?
i tried to learn it, i follow the steps it works
i try to be creative and change positions, and everything goes wrong....

ill give it another try
but I heard tables are still in use!

@Skate
thanx for the valuable information
just wondering, if someone hacks my site...can I get it back?
and will he have personal information of mine from the hosting company?