Which is best language to design a website.

[sunnynosid]

In which lanuage should a website be designed so that website becomes more attractive and quality of website too? Today which language is mostly preffered for web designing and why?

[mattyy]

It's more to your preference actually.
But probably most of the sites out there are using php.

IMO, python.

[sunnynosid]

I think javascript is better than php because in with javascript we can have flash like features and animation like prompt, alert, wipe, and other animation effects which makes a website quick and fast. But on the other hand, as i think, with php we will be unable to get such features.
Am i right?

[teedoff]

Originally Posted by sunnynosid

I think javascript is better than php because in with javascript we can have flash like features and animation like prompt, alert, wipe, and other animation effects which makes a website quick and fast. But on the other hand, as i think, with php we will be unable to get such features.
Am i right?

Site functionality should NEVER be left up to javascript. JS should only be used to enhance the user experience after the designer/developer knows the site fully works without it. Remember, javascript is a CLIENT side langauge. Sure you can do some "neat" tricks with it, but its also susceptible to users "turning it off", you cant fully protect sensitive information such as login or email with js, and forget about FULLY validating forms.

But to the OP, I would agree with the other post that php is probably the most common, and since its free to use and develop in, it makes sense.

Personally I prefer and will ALWAYS prefer to code in Coldfusion as my server side.

[sunnynosid]

One more thing i wanna ask is "Which web lanuages are free to use and which are not? And why they are not free? And if i use non-free language in my website then what will happen? "

[mattyy]

Below is a list of the programming languages I can think of right now.

Ajax

ASP

ASP.NET

C

C++

C#

ColdFusion

CSS

Flash

HTML

Java

Javascript

MySQL

Perl

PHP

Python

Ruby

Visual Basic

XHTML

XML

Some languages are correlated so you would have to use some together depending on your required site's functionality.
Example : php mysql

From your questions I'm assuming that you're new to web stuff, you should read some online tutorials or get some ebooks to read. That's how you're gonna learn efficiently (assuming that you want to code a website yourself)

[oracleguy]

Originally Posted by sunnynosid

I think javascript is better than php because in with javascript we can have flash like features and animation like prompt, alert, wipe, and other animation effects which makes a website quick and fast. But on the other hand, as i think, with php we will be unable to get such features.
Am i right?

To be frank, no you aren't. You are comparing apples and oranges there. PHP and JavaScript have two entirely different purposes. PHP works only on the server side and JavaScript works only on the client side.

As for the original poster's question. Are you asking in terms of server side programming or client side? On the client side you have very few options so there isn't much of a debate there. As for the server side, there is no "best" language. In fact in computer programming in general there is no "best" language. There is only the best tool for the job. Different languages can allow you to have different approaches to solving certain problems. There are other factors that can influence your language choice as well.

[jassi.singh]

Use ASP.Net using MVC with Javascript and Jquery, SAAS and sql server

[JLambert]

Php is main language which you require in order to code your website. And For Design you can use HTML,DHTML/CSS.