2009/4/23 Peter Sawczynec <p...@blu-studio.com>: > A very plausible beginner production style: > > 1) Photoshop. > Design original site in Photoshop. > a) Photoshop has a learning curve, but once mastered sites that start in > Photoshop and use all the great styling and layering tools come out > looking more custom, unique and artistic. Plus, once Photoshop knowledge > is gained, those skills overflow into the ability to handle all digital > imagery manipulation needs both for personal and professional use. > b) Photoshop has Save for Web feature that can be set to a custom output > that includes XHTML, images, divs and layers positioned with CSS. > > 2) Dreamweaver. > Handle site updates in Dreamweaver. > a) Dreamweaver has very sophisticated point and click interface, > excellent autocompletion, properties inspector, and code hints. Plus, > one can set up "websites" to catalog assets and have site updating, > where Dreamweaver automatically sends all new changes and needed assets > via FTP up to the actual site. > > http://www.academicsuperstore.com > This site allows you to buy very deeply discounted fully licensed > software as long as you or someone in your family can prove you are in > any kind of school. > Excellent academic pricing, as far as I have experienced. Go look at > Adobe Suite prices there.
She's not looking to be a career developer. She's just doing this for kicks at this point so I really need something free. Is there a standard "Free" and "free" tool-chain? > http://www.lynda.com > See this site for a ton of free online video tutorials that will be > especially useful to a newbie. > (You need to look hard for the freebies but they are there.) > > For some lowest price web hosting on a shoestring with decent 24 hr. > tech support and plenty of online admin tools that will especially > educate and challenge the novice, you can just try GoDaddy. $4.99 per > mo. gets Linux, MySQL (4 or 5), and PHP (4 or 5), plus a ton of very > popular opensource projects (blog, photo gallery, etc.) that one can > "turn on and install" from the admin interface and then explore those > too. Perfect. That definitely fits my budget. How does GoDaddy compare to HostGator? Thanks, Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org] > On Behalf Of Michael B Allen > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:49 PM > To: nyphp > Subject: [nyphp-talk] PHP hosting and standard tool-chain for newbie? > > Hi, > > A young family member has a domain that I used to host until I started > doing real business with credit cards and such at which point I had to > shut her down. So now I'm wondering if I can find somewhere cheap to > host her site where she can mess around with PHP and web design. > > What do you recommend for cheap PHP hosting? > > Also, what is the standard tool-chain for developing your HTML, PHP, > JavaScript and then uploading it to your site? I use vim, tar and scp > glued together with shell scripts but for her I'm hoping for a really > simple point-n-click experience. > > She uses a Macbook. > > Mike > > -- > Michael B Allen > PHP Active Directory Integration > http://www.ioplex.com/plexcel.html _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
