Website Design - Tools / Langugaes etc?

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My father wants to start creating websites in his spare time because he likes to have food to eat and a roof over his head.

I have next to no experience in this field (perl, simple javascript, html, frontpage98). I can only create simple crappy sites and it takes a while too..
Not really my field of expertise..

what technologies should he be looking into? What tools should he be looking into? What is everyone using these days? Seems like there is far too much technology to get your head around these days..

Asp?
php?
javascript?
flash?

Seems everyone is creating websites in their spare time for extra cash these days.. *sigh* I can only assume they are using programs that generate all the code for them, cause these people are defintely not smart enough and don't have enough time to write these pages from scratch..
So what programs are the popular choice today?

Let me mention that my father is a programmer. A really good programmer. I doubt he would want to follow everyone elses footsteps and create entire websites using only a program, but im sure he wouldn't mind using the program to help with rapid development and then adding some code behind that. What combinations would best suit his expertise? He can learn anything, he is a C++ guru and 99% of the time I dunno what he's on about when we talk programming..

Thanks
 
Well most dynamic websites nowadays are done using a combination of PHP and MySQL as the database back end. If he can get those skills down he'll be pretty much set to develop some quite complex sites. He can then later add Javascript and AJAX to his skill set.
 
Start off with getting the hang of html and css for the design side, then add php and mysql later for dynamic sites. The html and css should go pretty quick except for learning all about getting the sites to work in all the web browsers.

I would suggest using something like notepad++ that has auto complete for the code which makes things a little faster. Most other programs that generate the code make bulky and bad code.
 
Website Creation tools and languages

Thanks

No programmers using any tools for rapid development then?
Is everyone coding from scratch? =P
 
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