Want to learn how to make a Facebook like website - Developers

- What do I need to do to learn how to create such a website? - Would it be HTML, PHP, Javascript, etc? - How hard is it to learn how to program? I'm a fast learner and taught my self to be proficient in C4D, Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, and 3DS Max. - How long would it take to learn how to do all this?

Oh boy. Ohhh boy. Alright, here's some of the things you need to know in order to make... [img]http://i.imgur.com/SRuSy.png[/img] ▬ All of the following: HTML, CSS, Javascript. And I don't just mean knowing the syntax, you better bloody be capable of writing code/markup in your sleep. ▬ Atleast one of the following: PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, etc. Read second sentence of first point ▬ The HTTP protocol, in and out, front-to-back. ▬ Git, Mercurial, SVN, or another VCS. ▬ Application design patterns - factories, abstract factories, builders, singletons, prototypes, observers, yadda yadda yadda. ▬ Server management, load-balancing. ▬ Security practices, some degree of cryptography knowledge. ▬ Pretty much everything in [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1040942"]The Big Fat Thread of Knowledge[/URL]. And the list goes on! Looking at it now, you can almost make it into a little song...and a one, and a two... * walks away, humming *

[QUOTE=StinkyJoe;32286668]Oh boy. Ohhh boy. Alright, here's some of the things you need to know in order to make... [img]http://i.imgur.com/SRuSy.png[/img] ▬ All of the following: HTML, CSS, Javascript. And I don't just mean knowing the syntax, you better bloody be capable of writing code/markup in your sleep. ▬ Atleast one of the following: PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, etc. Read second sentence of first point ▬ The HTTP protocol, in and out, front-to-back. ▬ Git, Mercurial, SVN, or another VCS. ▬ Application design patterns - factories, abstract factories, builders, singletons, prototypes, observers, yadda yadda yadda. ▬ Server management, load-balancing. ▬ Security practices, some degree of cryptography knowledge. ▬ Pretty much everything in [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1040942"]The Big Fat Thread of Knowledge[/URL]. And the list goes on! Looking at it now, you can almost make it into a little song...and a one, and a two... * walks away, humming *[/QUOTE] Couldn't have said it better myself.

You need to work on getting your avatar working first man, for some reason when I click it it just takes me to your user page.

Your thread title is hard to understand. Are you asking how to create a website LIKE FaceBook. Or are you asking how to create a website that shows pages / groups etc, people can like?

Like Facebook. Really helpful community with all these dumbs for people who want to learn.

[QUOTE=Shiftyze;32301756]Like Facebook. Really helpful community with all these dumbs for people who want to learn.[/QUOTE] My post lists (some of) the things you need to know - if you're looking for a one-word answer or an easy-to-swallow 6-step tutorial then you're proper screwed.

[QUOTE=StinkyJoe;32301789]My post lists (some of) the things you need to know - if you're looking for a one-word answer or an easy-to-swallow 6-step tutorial then you're proper screwed.[/QUOTE]List more, please.

shit loads of php

I'm creating a very basic social netowrk (more akin to tumblr than facebook) and I've already spent a month on it, and I'm probably around the halfway mark [url]http://weldr.me/[/url]

i think we got a new Mark Zuckerberg

[QUOTE=H4Z3Y;32304791]I'm creating a very basic social netowrk (more akin to tumblr than facebook) and I've already spent a month on it, and I'm probably around the halfway mark [url]http://weldr.me/[/url][/QUOTE] From what I saw in the movie, facebook was just basic database interaction with a better layout than more other sites, no?

[QUOTE=Shiftyze;32301756]Like Facebook. Really helpful community with all these dumbs for people who want to learn.[/QUOTE] The first reply was enough for your question. Try to learn those things first, it'll take you years to get enough experience to do that assuming you don't know many of those which are mentioned.

£5 says that OP has just seen The Social Network

[QUOTE=Adzter;32305737]£5 says that OP has just seen The Social Network[/QUOTE] hahaha True.

[QUOTE=Adzter;32305737]£5 says that OP has just seen The Social Network[/QUOTE] Nothing wrong with that, it was an incredibly inspiring film and inspired me to make [url]www.clickphilia.com[/url]

[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32306097]Nothing wrong with that, it was an incredibly inspiring film and inspired me to make [url]www.clickphilia.com[/url][/QUOTE] Not saying it's a bad thing, it's inspired me to mess around with PHP

[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32306097]Nothing wrong with that, it was an incredibly inspiring film and inspired me to make [url]www.clickphilia.com[/url][/QUOTE] [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5483751/Photos/2011-09-15_2223.png[/img] Why.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;32307480][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5483751/Photos/2011-09-15_2223.png[/img] Why.[/QUOTE] because I use opera and I that was my first ever website so I found it really difficult to optimise for every browser

[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32306097]Nothing wrong with that, it was an incredibly inspiring film and inspired me to make [url]www.clickphilia.com[/url][/QUOTE] It inspired to not trust famous people.

[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32307542]because I use opera and I that was my first ever website so I found it really difficult to optimise for every browser[/QUOTE] Okay. I didn't mean that like why why WHY!!!?!? btw, I just meant it as, could you explain why you're recommending opera.

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;32307582]Okay. I didn't mean that like why why WHY!!!?!? btw, I just meant it as, could you explain why you're recommending opera.[/QUOTE] advertise so that 98% of the internet users can change to opera. atleast more than 2%?

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;32307582]Okay. I didn't mean that like why why WHY!!!?!? btw, I just meant it as, could you explain why you're recommending opera.[/QUOTE] ah okay, it just happened to be the browser I use that's all [editline]15th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=zzlawlzz;32307617]advertise so that 98% of the internet users can change to opera. atleast more than 2%?[/QUOTE] that too

I wrote a social network in Python/Django. It's not too hard, but there is a lot of shit you have to do. Mine wasn't fully featured, but it was pretty decent. [editline]16th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Alcapwne;32304912]From what I saw in the movie, facebook was just basic database interaction with a better layout than more other sites, no?[/QUOTE] Yeah, social networks are basically fancy interfaces to databases. That makes sense because it's entirely focused around data.

[QUOTE=Adzter;32305737]£5 says that OP has just seen The Social Network[/QUOTE]Never seen it. Use to be on facebook all the time back in America and had an outstanding idea. And I did read the first post, very helpful, thank you.