web design and coding?

[Marc]

so basically i have been coding using dreamweaver for up to a year now and i want to challenge myself a little more. But i dont get the process of more complicated coding used to construct a in depth webpage. I no all the basic codes for example i can do nearly every code involving text. But i need more of a challenge. I was watching the movie the social network, and he mentions using 10s of thousands of codes, That hurts my head to think about since i could a most do around 100. What coding must people like mark zuckerburg and other people with huge web pages just like facebook to keep things changing and becoming more advanced. If you know anything about this sort of stuff or where i could learn more about it please let me know.

Thanks

[Chris]

Writing HTML and CSS isn't really coding. Facebook uses PHP, which is an actual scripting language (meaning it has variables and functions and objects and file access and can use databases, etc.)

The basic idea is that when you visit a website, you don't get a static document but a program will run that puts together a page, based on your request and usually a database. A simple example would be a blog, which reads and displays the newest 10 entries off a database when you visit the home page.

Try this: http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/php/

[Isaiah B]

I agree with Chris PHP is the real deal, it is a level higher.

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