[thelist] Newbie throwing herself on your mercy

Chris Johnston chris at fuzzylizard.com
Wed Sep 11 19:15:01 CDT 2002


First, start reading everything you can about web design at
www.webmonkey.com, www.sitepoint.com and www.devshed.com. These sites
will fill in a lot of the blanks you are now facing.

Kimberly Evangeline wrote:
> If this is not the right place for this, please let me know and I apologize if
> that's the case.  But someone suggested I sign up for this list and ask my
> question here.

Good plan, this is the place to ask 'em if you gotem.

>
> I would love to be more web-savvy.  Most of the people I know think that
> signing up for a hotmail account is a great accomplishment :) I've managed to
> make my own website with Microsoft Frontpage, tweak some of the HTML, buy a
> domain name, a place to host it, etc.  I'm not a complete web-idiot.
>
> However, I'd really love to be able to run Horde/Imp on my computer.  But...I
> have no idea how to do this.

Don't know what this is, sorry

>
> I know I have to have Apache, and PHP, but I'm not sure...what I need to do to
> get them, and when I have them, what I do with them.  I've downloaded things
> that say 'Download this' and I think they were tar.gz files or something like
> that (I'd look them up, but I'm not on my home computer...my apologies), but
> then it asks me what application would I like to use to open them, and I don't
> know what I'm supposed to use, or if I have the correct application to open
> them.  And do I need Unix/Linux?  And would that clash with Windows ME?

What you are looking for is the .msi file. This will allow you to
install apache on windows. Check out the websites that I listed above, I
believe that all three have tutorials about installing apache/php onto
windows.

You do not need to install Linux in order to run apache. As for the
other things that you listed, I have no idea.

Yes, Linux would clash with win me. It is a totally different OS.

>
> I'm a bit lost here, and I don't really know anyone that can help me...the
> people I know that *do* know how to do these things just say, "Oh, well that's
> simple" and leave me feeling foolish, and I still don't get answers.
>
> Again, if this isn't the place to ask this, please let me know, and maybe tell
> where I SHOULD go to get answers to these questions.  I'd love to be more web-
> savvy.

It's web related, it fits. Don't be scared off by all the gurus here,
there is still room for newbies.

/chris
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