Posted by Toby on 06/06/07 16:39

I am a newbie/oldbie website developer in a sort of unique point in
my
website development 'career'. I have been using Corel Paint Shop Pro
and Netscape Composer as my main tools.

Basically I start with a template (bitmap of my website), use Corel
which allows me to slice that template how I want and create an html
table. Then I add links and edit HTML using Netscape Composer. Very
crude, but somewhat effective.


I know there are better, more effective tools. I just would like
some
advice before I go out and spend a lot of money. Also, I am
interested in learning website development as a career. I am an
engineer by training, I know C/C++ as well as some other languages.
Of course I know HTML, and I have a little tiny bit of experience
(mostly just from some tutorials I've read) about PHP, MySQL, etc.


So my question is where to start? I basically have two goals:
1) To be able to quickly and easily develop my own ecommerce
websites.
2) To learn marketable website development skills so maybe I can get
a
real job doing this someday.


I was looking at templatemonster.com, and most of their templates say
you need Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop. I really don't want to
spend $800 on this though. I guess if I have to I will, but can
anyone recommend a cheaper way for me to achieve my goals?

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