My website will utilise XHTML 1.0 [Strict] to describe the contents and structure of the text within the document. CSS 3 will be used to present/format the information contained within the XHTML file. This will be done by defining fonts, colours, hyperlinks, image placement and the layout of the page via an external CSS file. The finished page will then be able to validate to the W3C standards.
I will use my sketch book to record initial sketches and develop my ideas so that I can transfer these works to the screen with minimum of effort. I will the use a variety of software to make my ideas work for a screen rendition of work. I will be using the Adobe CS4 suite to achieve this.
Developing the code will be done using NotePad++ and offline testing using XAMPP which includes technologies such as myPHPadmin and Apache. When these concepts are in fully working order only then will they be transferred to my hosting account to go live.
Using a CMS will help me to achieve the MySQL and PHP section of my goals and will also let me explore other possibilities using other technologies such as JavaScript – though the main use of JavaScript will be for my twitter functionality and images galleries – if they are present.