Can someone show me the difference between like a blog editor and someone who does there own hard coding? Why is hard coding considered a better route? I know it’s better because then I can actually create a login to my site for the most part.
That’s a confusing question! But I’ll call hard coding anything where you open up a text editor like Notepad or TextMate and start typing.
- Javascript > flash - better than flash for the most part? An entire website in flash is bad for a beginner and only works well with well known companies? If I’m wrong here just say it.
Two very different things, although the ActionScript language in Flash is a sort of cousin to Javascript.
Flash can only be viewed by those with the Flash player. Not all people have the Flash Player (I don’t on my main machine, I do on my Windows section). HTML webpages are navigatable and usable by keyboard, stylus, even by finger (touchscreen). Flash only is if you build it so (meaning, you’d better be very good at Flash before building an entire website out of it). Flash has difficulty getting its content seen by search engines (google has a way to grab some of the text, but again, this is only if you build your Flash that way).
Javascript was meant for a whole different thing, though nowadays it is overlapping some jobs that Flash only used to do. Look around the web for articles about Javascript written by Chris Heilmann, Dustin Diaz, James Edwards/brothercake, Douglad Crockford, and get an idea what you’ll want to learn if you decide to learn Javascript.
Both are good things to know if you want to be a front-end web developer, but getting very good at either will take plenty of time. Pick one and work on it first. I personally would choose Javascript, but I don’t know what your ultimate goals are.
- Php - best login systems, but it also has it’s downfalls of terrible bugs in it. Can anyone justify php as the best or is it just the most used?
Well, I’m not going to sing PHP’s praises, but most buggy PHP code is due to bad coders (one language may make it easier or harder for bad coders to get bad code working, but ultimately it’s the quality of the coder and his/her code that determines how good it is).
PHP has the advantage of being everywhere. Even the cheapest hosters have it.
You mentioned blogs. Another advantage PHP has is that it runs some of the most popular blogging systems, such as Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal.
That said, you can choose any of the popular programming languages for back-end web development. I would suggest learning the principles of Good Programming in any case.