Were these 2 websites built from templates or from scratch?

[bolido2000]

Maybe this should be in the programming section, but it seems kind of dead. I was looking at Listia.com and renthop.com and really like the look and feel of sites. They look simple yet modern. I noticed the feedback button and was wondering if sites like those were built out of rough template or completely from scratch? Mainly built on PHP/Java/SQL?? I have an idea for a website and would like it to look like that. From my question I obviously don't have much experience with web programming, but I graduated with Computer Science degree (mainly C/C++), so hopefully I can pick up the web programming languages quickly. I just want to take a stab at building a website. Suggestions welcome

 

[FleshLight]

Both are really easy to do from scratch.

 

[xanis]

Design-wise, all that's going on is some very simple CSS with a few divs. The back-end looks like a combination of JavaScript/PHP/MySQL. Neither of the sites are terribly complicated, and if you're willing to learn how to code for the web, you should be able to pick up on things fairly quickly.

 

[bolido2000]

That sounds encouraging. I'm looking over at some PHP tutorials. Roughly...what kind of resources would you guys recommend that I look into to get started? I guess I just need an high level overview on how to integrate all the different parts. For the host I'm thinking Hostgator.com and using Joomla as the CMS.

 

[krylon]

:camera: of your sister?

 

[listia]

we can't speak for renthop, but listia is made from scratch and doesn't use a template.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: listia
we can't speak for renthop, but listia is made from scratch and doesn't use a template.

Wow, that was fast.

Edit: BTW - the Listia concept seems pretty cool. How busy is it?