How is website creating now?

[Curlypaul]

You can still use tables for layout but its best practise to only use tables for tabular data.

As for php - well its a script language for generating dynamic HTML. Its ok, lots of people use it because its free to use so server fees for it are cheap

[BRIK]

@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?

It's more so you don't have to input what the colours, fonts etc are for every single page. You just connect the page in its simple form to the CSS and it does it all for you. It also does other stuff, but I haven't used it in months and its late so I can't think very well

[StephPlusPlus]

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

CSS and divs, from what I know. It is not recommended to use tables for layouts.

[skate323k137]

If someone hacks your site it's typically for database access. They wouldn't have your information on file at the hosting company unless they hacked the hosting company, which is a whole different story. Main thing like I said before, use good passwords, and keep your software up to date.

Like I said, the most common targets are outdated e-commerce platforms. People hack those for e-mail lists, credit card information that's poorly protected, etc. It's one of the many reasons that as much as paypal can piss me off some times, I use them for any independent websites that I don't trust with my credit card. It's not that I don't trust the people running the business; I don't trust their web developer to safely store or discard my information.

As far as getting your stuff back, always keep backups. Most dedicated servers I work with have an extra hard drive in them that the sites are backed up to daily. Many people also set up remote FTP so that those backups are transferred to a different machine nightly. There are also things like r1soft backups that are active backup solutions. The proper r1soft setup can back up most of your stuff hourly, keeping several days of backups.

[RCBH928]

You won't believe this
but I just found out angelfire and fortunecity is still around!
so is tripod...i wonder why geocities is the only one to go down, it was the most famous

I will sign up with Xoom.com since they have the unbelievable storage of 5MB! hahaha

any way, not sure if we discussed this before but what is the
alternative to those?
blogspot and wordpress?

[CRTGAMER]

Sometimes I will save a Web page for future reference in case the online page might go away. I also save any large JPG links for the page and place in the same offline saved folder I then edit the page links to load the pics directly from the offline folder. Gaaah I hate all the Java Script slowing down a page load, so I delete all that crap in the HTML Source Edit window. I use ancient MS Front Page on the PC or Word HTML editor on the iMac.

[Hatta]

Anything you did in 1998 will still work today. You don't have to move to CSS if you don't want to, but it will make it easier to keep a coherent style across pages.

[Michi]

I learned straight-up HTML in High School and CSS in college, and that's more than I can say for my college classmates. Most of them had no HTML experience, so when something went wrong in Dreamweaver, they had no clue how to fix it. I ended up helping just as many students as our professor did (got me a couple extra credits though. Whoot!). Even knowing CSS, I still primarily use the html editor in every program. It's really still a necessity. CSS is great for multiple, consistent page formatting, and the divs are a lot easier to use than tables, but I'm still more comfortable with html.

[RCBH928]

some how,
using a WYSIWYG editor, things always go wrong or get misplaced , at least that is how they were when i used golive in 2004 and and dreamweaver 2005

writing in code never failed me
I wish I didn't have to use it though, its so much easier to see what you want to create