web design

What do I need?

[spiraluk]

Please help me on this?
I have 3 domain names(business related).
At the moment I am designing the front page using the Draemweaver 8.
One or two sites may have multiple pages in the future (say 100-some of them like a pop up window).
For multiple pages I must use the PHP etc.. (basically bringing some information from the database).
1.My first question is..if I have to do this myself...what do I need to have on my computer?
2.If I have to run three websites using the hosting account which I have at the moment (see below). Can you please tell me this would be enough?...if not please tell me ...how much size I require and how much will cost approximately per month?
Thanks.

Disk space 300000mb
Monthly bandwidth 3072000 MB
Email accounts ¡V unlimited
MySQL data base ¡V 60 databases
PHPBB-25
CommercePro:25
PicturePro:10
WordPress:25
Joomla!:25
MediaWiki25:
Application Path: unlimited

[adwatson]

Your hosting looks fine to me.

As for what you'll need on your computer - probably the basics area good text editor for editing PHP files, and some sort of FTP software for uploading/downloading from your server - I like Filezilla. You may also need some sort of graphics editing program. And you should probably have IE6 and IE7, and the current version of firefox for testing. Thankfully all that stuff is free! Good luck.

[spiraluk]

Thanks for your reply.

[Marcia]

Do you have multi-domain hosting, or just hosting for one domain?

[spiraluk]

multi-domain hosting.
Thank you.

[spiraluk]

LAMP = Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP
WAMP = Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP

If I have to use one of them.which one is better?
Where can I buy them cheaper? Can I download them free?
Can anyone advise me on this?
One more question please?
I know lot of web designers..they are only intersested for complete job. Suppose if we need a small help in writing a script other than this amazing forum...Is there any on line help for cash?

Thnaks.

[mack]

The hosting setup looks fine to me. From a PC perspective web development doesn't really require a top end machine. All you really need in terms of software is notepad, or a plain text editor!

I do however suggest you work out a backup routine. Regularly back up the folder where you are doing all your web work. The same applies to any other area where you store work or important files.

There is nothing worse than spending time and effort only to have it wiped out when a disk fails or other system problem.

With regards to your own development platform, you might want to check out Xampp, it's a product of the apache foundation and is totaly free to download and use.

Mack.