New to web development - backend questions

Posted by James on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by James
Published on 2010-05-12T03:17:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 3:24 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 354

Filed under:

web-development

|

backend

|

beginner

I'm new to web development although I'm confident in the roadmap for the front-end. I need direction on two things:

Basic architecture
Back-end technologies

For architecture, what do I need to get started? From what I know, its:

Get a domain name registered (godaddy?)
Find a web host
??? anything else? or start developing the site?

I don't think its that easy, there must be something I'm missing, right?

For the back-end technologies, I have application development experience with Java and Python, but how likely is it to find a back-end hosting site that supports these languages over PHP? Is PHP a better choice? If I stick with what I know for the back-end, am I sabotaging myself later on? If I need help, how is the market for a python/java developer vs. a php developer?

What do I need to know about databases? I have some basic SQL experience. Do hosting sites have limitations on the type of databases or bandwidth I need to worry about?

I'm working through some of the common sites: StackOverflow, Sitepoint forums, Google, etc...are there other resources I should use?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about web-development

Web Development - How to Get Started in Web Development

as seen on Ezine Articles - Search for 'Ezine Articles'
11 years ago I purchased a book about basic HTML development. A purchase that would end up defining my entire professional career. I bought it because I wanted to create a web page for a school project. This was in the days of Geo city sites and it looked absolutely horrible. >>> More
PHP Web Development, Web Development Using PHP As an Open Source

as seen on Ezine Articles - Search for 'Ezine Articles'
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is the most famous language nowadays as it is an open source and web development requires no costs in implementation. >>> More
How to get full query string parameters not UrlDecoded

as seen on Developer IT - Search for 'Developer IT'
Introduction While developing Developer IT’s website, we came across a problem when the user search keywords containing special character like the plus ‘+’ char. We found it while looking for C++ in our search engine. The request parameter output in ASP.NET was “c “.… >>> More
Tracking download of non-html (like pdf) downloads with jQuery and Google Analytics

as seen on Developer IT - Search for 'Developer IT'
Hi folks, it’s been quite calm at Developer IT’s this summer since we were all involved in other projects, but we are slowly comming back. In this post, we will present a simple way of tracking files download with Google Analytics with the help of jQuery. We work for a client that offers… >>> More
What is the best .NET web development framework?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm looking for a framework to simplify the creation of a website with social networking features and plenty of custom functionality. I'm quite keen to use an ORM like nHibernate or similar for data access. Would DotNetNuke be a good choice? Or are there other options which are better. Added: I'm… >>> More

Related posts about backend

Appears to be "randomly" switching between the acl matched backend and the default backend

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I have HAProxy acting as a proxy in front of: An NGinx instance An in-house load balancer in front of multiple dynamic services exposed with socket.io (websockets) My problem is that from time to time my connections are proxied correctly to my socket.io cluster, and then randomly it fallsback… >>> More
nginx: SSI working on Apache backend, but not on gunicorn backend

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I have nginx in front of an Apache server and a gunicorn server for different parts of my website. I am using the SSI module in nginx to display a snippet in every page. The websites include a snippet in this form: For static pages served by nginx everything is working fine, the same goes for the… >>> More
Varnish 3.0.2 to Apache2 sometimes return error 503

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hey guys I hope you can help me out here. I have an Ngingx parsing http and https to a varnish cache(3.0.2). From the varnish it is sent to apache2. Now I have for some time been tracking some strange 503 errors. But I cant seem to find the silver bullet. Currently I am logging the 503 errors through… >>> More
Mysql hosting for application backend

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I've been asked to help set up a way for a volunteer animal rescue organization to use an application to keep track of animals they've rescued. This application already exists, and can use it's own local database or connect to a MySQL database server. Since there are several volunteers spread out… >>> More
joomla: editing the mvc package for joomla component development

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
hi! i m new to joomla component development i hv just downloaded bunch of files from some jooomla mvc generater website.which llok like smthng like this hello.xml - frontend/index.html - frontend/hello.php - frontend/controller.php - frontend/models/index.html - frontend/models/hello… >>> More