"michael scott" <jigenbak...@yahoo.com> wrote
I want to start getting into web site development. I already
know basic html and css, which will create a basic webpage.
But my question is what exactly does python bring to the web?
Action.
Your HTML/CSS web page cannot do anything it is just static
information. Using JavaScript you can make the brower do a
few things like pop up dialog boxes and so on but thats about it.
You use Python at the web server end to generate html pages
and those pages will be based on dynamic things like
database content or information retrieved from other web
pages. So, for example of the lead news story in the
NY Times is about events in Mexico, your web page
might display the Mexican flag as an Icon, but if the
headline is about Greece it shows the Greek flag,
- and if its about a Hollywood starlet it shows a
yawning dog...
You need a dynamic programming language to do the lookup
and then draw the right image on the page.
Thats a simple example, but of course you can do much
more sophisticated things too - like create a web shop
like Amazon, or an Auction site like eBay or a search
engine like google..
Are forums, blogs, flash sites, etc the results of
web programming or can they all be achieved with
standard html / css?
They all need programming althoufgh some of them can
be downloaded or bought as packages where the
programming has been done for you.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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