Status of state-ends.com?

[vdeane]

Mine is hand-coded PHP/HTML/CSS self-hosted on my desktop (which is a Linux/Apache/MySQL server).  About the only semi-automated thing would be the perl scripts I use to add items to the photos database... which I also wrote.

[Zeffy]

What would be the best way to start a website? My current website is being hosted on Wordpress, and I'm not too sure of how to even create one anymore! I remember using Frontpage to create my last one... in 2002.

Look here: http://www.w3schools.com/

This is one of the best resources for learning how to create your own websites.

[sammi]

Mine is hand-coded PHP/HTML/CSS self-hosted on my desktop (which is a Linux/Apache/MySQL server).  About the only semi-automated thing would be the perl scripts I use to add items to the photos database... which I also wrote.

Me too! I find it's easiest to manage your website that way, because then you know it inside-out and then you'd actually know what you're doing. But my current hosting doesn't allow shell access, so it's a pain to have to go to my cPanel and open the file manager every time I want to upload something or move things around. I'm on a free hosting plan though, so I can't really complain. >.>

http://www.w3schools.com/

Recommended. While this isn't how I learned web development, it's still a good resource. You're looking at HTML and CSS and possibly JavaScript. The rest aren't necessary.