The Most Basic of Basics

[panamade]

Hi.

After two attempts at getting developers I know personally to build a non-profit website for me and having them bail on it, I've decided to do it all myself. Knowing very much about design, but very little about coding, I'm pretty much starting from absolute scratch at this, today...

What I need to find right now is a description of what the most basic mechanics of any website are. I know that there is a front end made of some kind of HTML, and a back end usually involving a database, SQL I guess, but if I'm going to learn to program, I need to know which languages are best to use for my particular needs.

My site is fairly simple I believe, it's an education website involving a simple Q&A trivia-like interface on the front and the need to store and recall users Q's and A's on the back, match similar entries based on alphabetical commonality, and provide language translation. That's about it.

If you can point me in the right direction, it'd really help.

Thanks

[maneetpuri]

Hi,

Welcome to the world of web-developers!

I would suggest using PHP as the scripting language and MySQL as the backend database, both these are easy to learn, there are many many sources available for learning these and most importantly these can be downloaded for free.

All the best!
Cheers,

~Maneet