Want to learn cms?

i am a freelance gfx designer mainly working on 3 software





photoshop





illustrator





flash





but i am very much interested to learn web development


and i am going to join an institute (explora) to learn development





they are teaching me following software





html


dhtml


css


javascript


cgi pirl


coldfusion


php mysql


xml


and introduction to dot net





it is 7 month course containing live project





plz suggest me should i join it or is this going to help me to get ahead or is it unnecessary





plz also suggest me if you know any other training institute in india





and what is cms i try to read a lot about this but didn't understand anything about this how it is imp to build a web site





plz suggest the best institute available in india to learn cms





i also know html,c,c++





plz suggest me i am very serious

Want to learn cms?
There is a great wealth of educational material freely available online. There is a collection of links related to such sites as well as other web programming resources at:





http://home.comcast.net/~richarduie/





C(ontent) M(anagement) S(ystem) provides a mean to separate the structure of a website from its content. This allows content owners, usually business people, to manage their part - content - separately from the framework of CSS, HTML, JavaScript etc. The way the website looks and acts is up to the programmers. What information is offered is up to the people who know the needed business content not the technical side of web programming. Usually, this is accomplished with some sort of database from which the content is retrieved and added to the web page on the server prior to being sent to the client.
Reply:I always say to people asking this question not to bother spending money on a course as there is enough free info out there on the web.





CMS is not a subject, it is a type of software and there are many implementations. You could just set up a version of Joomla (a popular CMS) and try making websites with it.





I would suggest learning PHP and MySQL and learn how to build your own CMS. I have a CMS I use for most websites I construct, I built it on PHP and MySQL, you will need to learn quite a lot bt as I said the information is all out there on the web!





Good luck





Dave - http://sqoo.co.uk
Reply:a free tutorial: http://needforcontent.com/





save your money. There are hundreds of tutorials on-line


some even have snapshots and video





just do a search like 'java+tutorial'


http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/