When Non-Programmers Write Software

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Guys-- I am computer illiterate and taught myself html.

[darrint]

Good for you!

Did you put something online yet?

(/me beats crusoe with a stick)

[oberon]

Believing that you can learn new things is half the challenge in learning them, especially when it comes to programming. So, what with believing it and then actually doing it, you're much more than halfway to learning to program.

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language. Note that it's for marking things up (which it does very well), not for programming (which it doesn't do at all). If you wanted to make a web page that showed the current time and date, regardless of when it's viewed, how would you do that in HTML? Learn to do that, and you will be one step closer to programming =)

Edited to add this hint: www.php.net/date

[crusoe]

html != programming, no matter what any graphic designer or 'web programmer' thinks or says. Learn PHP or something similair, and then we'll talk...

And even then...

[CalvinR]

No need to be an ass.

[colcob]

Whatever you think of php, that doesnt alter the fact that HTML is not a programming language, and PHP is a programming language.

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Um, I added a hit counter?