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**alexroderick01** · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 06:46

I want to development my own website hosting. Which course should I go for? Is website hosting development and web designing are same? What I should see before joining any course? What I should must learn to have a very good website hosting with good features.

**Jack** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 08:33

I think you should be familiar with programming techniques first. This you can learn with the help of C or C++. Then you can go for designing with PHP or ASP depending on you which platform you choose.

**paul** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 10:06

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Originally Posted by alexroderick01

Is website hosting development and web designing are same?

The main difference between web design & web development is that web design involves more on visibility what the visitor look & feel about your website hosting while development entail more on the site’s functionality. I would suggest to go through w3schools.com website hosting, it will help you greatly on that you're looking for.

**esnail** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 14:15

I would go for web design first of all - familiarise yourself with the basic stuff of the web before tackling programming. Learn standards compliant HTML and CSS and then how php (or asp/perl) elements slot into the mark-up. The reason I suggest this is that good web design is hard to find, templates look like templates! However, there are some fantastically coded free php/mysql scripts about (Wordpress for instance!) that you can utilise and customise to do pretty much anything you want on the net - but all lack decent front end design. If you can use your skills and vision to design the front-end well, then I think that would be most fruitful.

**Baufo** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 14:48

What you have to know to "develop your own website hosting" highly depends on what you want your page to be.

If you just want to make a small personal homepage to for example share your photos with your friends then you might consider just using one of these neat editors that can create html pages without requiring any knowledge but how to handle this program.

If you want to run some common web application (weblog, forum, etc.) you will probably need basic knowledge of html, css and what your application is written in.

In the extreme, if you want to build a complex, interactive website hosting for which no solution currently exists you will have to acquire all the techniques mentioned above.
It might be a good idea to just hire a professional in this case though

**Ryan** · #6 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 16:29

Web design is about making attractive website hostings with good usability while Web development involves programming required to construct the back end of a website hosting. The back end is the area that isn't seen by website hosting visitors, but does the required work to present the right information in the correct format to the website hosting visitors.

A good place for you to get started is kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/webdesign.htm

**DPS Computing** · #7 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 09:28

If your talking University Degree courses I would strongly advise going for a Computer Science pure course as it is a lot more valuable and costs the same and it is possible to use a computer science degree to get a web job - it is not possible to get out of web design / development and get a programming job if your needs change.

**paul** · #8 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 09:58

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Originally Posted by DPS Computing

If your talking University Degree courses I would strongly advise going for a Computer Science pure course as it is a lot more valuable and costs the same and it is possible to use a computer science degree to get a web job - it is not possible to get out of web design / development and get a programming job if your needs change.

Yep that's good advice.

**DPS Computing** · #9 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 10:08

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Originally Posted by paul

Yep that's good advice.

Thought I would share it as it was the advice given to me at college by the careers advisors and by the professors, doctors and lecturers at Uni on the open days and independant advisors at Connexions and people in the industry on my work experience - 4 sets of people can't be wrong! So thats why I chose it as I was also thinking about web design / development.

I was told by the people in the industry that "We would be willing to hire a Computer Science graduate to do any of our work, including web design as a Computer Science graduate will easily gain any knowledge he needs of the web in no time at all however we would not employer a web designer / developer to do anything but web design / web devlopment as it is a lot harder to teach the advanced concepts and practical training that they have missed out on". Basically Computer Science will get you anywhere you want to go in computing - there is no need to specialise to early - you might want to change which sector of IT you are in after 20 years!! - so my advice is don't narrow your horizons too early

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**jc8654** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-09-2007, 10:06

I'm going to also say that physicists are similar to that. In my course, I have to do quite alot of programming in C, C++ and heading towards Java. And as the internet was developed by physicists, how can there be anyone better at designing for it than the people who invented it?

(P.S.I wonder if David is going to kill me for saying that? Lol.)

**paul** · #11 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 09:46

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Originally Posted by DPS Computing

Thought I would share it as it was the advice given to me at college by the careers advisors and by the professors, doctors and lecturers at Uni on the open days and independant advisors at Connexions and people in the industry on my work experience - 4 sets of people can't be wrong! So thats why I chose it as I was also thinking about web design / development.

I was told by the people in the industry that "We would be willing to hire a Computer Science graduate to do any of our work, including web design as a Computer Science graduate will easily gain any knowledge he needs of the web in no time at all however we would not employer a web designer / developer to do anything but web design / web devlopment as it is a lot harder to teach the advanced concepts and practical training that they have missed out on". Basically Computer Science will get you anywhere you want to go in computing - there is no need to specialise to early - you might want to change which sector of IT you are in after 20 years!! - so my advice is don't narrow your horizons too early

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Also if anyone interested to make career in IT field, they've chances to get good exposure into the field that they have studied. Many good companies in IT sectors are providing training to help & improve their employeesâ€™skills to enahnce their performance and proven techniques, to learn skills and techniques doing a regular job work will be bonus for a person those who are interested to make their career in IT field after completing their computer science degree.

**DPS Computing** · #12 (**permalink**) 13-09-2007, 16:40

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Originally Posted by jc8654

I'm going to also say that physicists are similar to that. In my course, I have to do quite alot of programming in C, C++ and heading towards Java. And as the internet was developed by physicists, how can there be anyone better at designing for it than the people who invented it?

(P.S.I wonder if David is going to kill me for saying that? Lol.)

Me and Physics have come to an agreement that we stay out of each others way!!

A Level was far enough for me lol.