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Posted by jiranan supawong
jiranan supawong
5,716 Points

Course for overall picture of building a website

I cannot find a course or class which can illustrate to me how a website work and teach me step-by-step building a website.

1 Answer

Dane Parchment
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Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 Points
Dane Parchment
Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 Points

There really isn't one particular course for building a website from the ground up, because web development encompasses many different topics. If you want to learn how to build a website from the ground up, then you need to learn multiple different topics, this means many different video series.

Luckily Treehouse has you covered with Tracks, which contain a list of video series for you to follow in the specific order necessary to learn a certain topic.

You should start with the web design track. This will teach you the basics to intermediates of html and css the building blocks of a website. By completing this track you will be able to create a website layout from the ground up.

Of course you will then need to add interactivity to that website. Otherwise it will just look pretty but do nothing. So you need to learn javascript. This track will help you master building the interactivity of a website.

Still though you will need to actually have persistance, business logic, and authentication if you website is complex. So you need to learn a back-end language. You have tons of choices for this: Javascript through Node, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby. For now I will link you this track that will show you how to do back-end programming with JavaScript.

Hope that helps.

jiranan supawong
jiranan supawong
5,716 Points

Dane Parchment Appreciate for your kind support

I have follow up question as below. It would be great if you can help me

I hired a vendor to build a website which I only give them business requirement - They are building my website using PHP codeigniter for Front-End and MySQL for Back-end (based on their recommendation)

My questions are

  1. Which are a must course to understand over picture of web/app development?

    • I planned to take digital literacy course first. Are there anything else I need to know for overall picture? - I would like to understand how many topic I have to make decision beside hiring vendor - Do I need to buy a server? What is web hosting? etc.
    • My goal is not to be a developer but have enough knowledge to talk with them
    • But I willing to take a simple course (such as basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.) to at least understand what is going on

  2. Based on my web-site using PHP codeigniter and MySQL. What is path I should take?

Thank you for your kind support in advance.

Dane Parchment
Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 Points
Dane Parchment
Dane Parchment
Treehouse Moderator 11,077 Points

If you have little to no computer knowledge then I would recommend you start off with the digital literacy course. It is pretty short so you can finish the entire track in a weekend if you dedicate a couple of hours per day on it. Link here.

Next if you want to gain more knowledge in PHP at least to the point of understanding the basics and probably carrying a conversation. Then I would recommend the Beginning PHP track. It is much longer and may be daunting to get through, but you start off learning some html and css, and then get a gentle introduction to an actual programming language. Link here.