Flozem, Thanks allot for all that great and very technical info. Ive printed it out and Ill hand it to Bretts tutor who will go through it. My son is very dedicated to his new hobbie and hopefully future career and he will learn all of this and many even more complex things. However this will take him time as if he learns too much at once he becomes distraught. On one occasion while he was learning about FTP his cousin (who was meant to be caring for him) began filling his mind with details about highly technical database management. In short Brett became quite agitated and began his night wetting. So we now need to be very careful about what Brett is learning and when. Anyway we will be sure to gradually incorporate these concepts into his syllabus.
The only two pieces of software he'll ever need to at least build a decent website:
-Notepad (comes with every install of Windows)
-A good image processing software like Paintshop Pro
For being able to at least create useful websites he'd need to learn about:
-html (check http://www.w3.org/)
-editing images
Practice with that, and then learn about:
-SQL
-PHP
-Javascript
So he can build decent webshops, forums, guestbooks and all other stuff clients might want to see customized.
And most of all:
-esthetics
-sociology
-writing decent English
might help...
After that he could start with flash software... it's only, well... flashy, but doesn't add much in the terms of usefulness.
No way in hell people are paying that much if he doesn't get his act straight... But hey, I've started at that design level... There is hope yet.
P.s. He only knows about Mexicans from some horrible movie and the only time he had a Mexican taco it made him sick. He thought they did it on purpose and it has, I'm sorry to say, colored his perception of our Mexican friends.
For those of you who have not yet seen Bretts site here is the link :
www.brettgraham.tk
Please tell me what you think
