I'm a curious web design student

[Wuai Bel Ree]

I'm taking a web design class right now. The class has taught how to make basic web pages, but it doesn't cover how to make large-type websites like YouTube or Computer Hope or...Memebase. Could someone explain this kind of stuff to me?

• Implementing a search bar that will search the site
• Allowing user submissions where things can be uploaded by different people, but the pages look the same except for the stuff uploaded by a user

Is this what PHP is for? I only know HTML & CSS and how to make a website by a page-by-page basis. Outside of those, I have no idea what other web programming languages are for or how to make "large" websites.

[kpac]

Yep, you're talking about PHP. This forum runs on PHP.

Basically anything that's user generated needs server side programming - PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP etc.

[Raptor]

You could try a package such as Drupal or OsCommerce to get a taste of the whole picture without having to actually know any languages.

[kpac]

You could try a package such as Drupal or OsCommerce

Or Wordpress.