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swapnaa · Newbie Joined: 22 Jul 2010 Posts: 1

Can someone explain Java Ajax PHP and HTML to me in laymen terms? I want to start a website but I’m merely the business and creative force behind it I will be looking for a partner for the technical aspect of the site and I would like to know what languages they should know to build a site similar to yahoo answers so I wanted to know what the languages I named above are used for and if there are any others my web developer should know.
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ks · Site Admin Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 293

First of all, I guest you mean javascript but not JAVA (which is totally another programming language).

AJAX is a complicated technology if you are not very familiar the nature of web programming.

The very simple answer will be:

It allow your web browser talk to the server and show you some output (or do something at behind) without request you refresh the web page.

The programming language you need is a few:
1. Server side (PHP, JAVA, ASP or etc)
2. Database (Mysql,MSSQL, Oracle and etc)
3. HTML (render webpage)
4. Javascript (Ajax is part from Javascript)
5. Probably, CSS

Hope it help.