I was wondering if there are any tutorials or information for using Processing not just for developing web apps, but entire sites. It would be very helpful to have some information about the capacity for Processing in this regard for a newbie like myself who isn't familiar with other languages.

I saw someone that had done this a while back, it was someone that was using processing to make 3d-flocking type
sketches and their whole site was in processing , can't remember who though.

Agreeing with philo it is a bad idea though, not only does it not get indexed but all visitors need javascript enabled AND a java plug-in, the sketch would have to load quickly and be lightwieght too.

if you re really all about doing this you don't need to know anything special, just export your website sketch and in the HTML file it creates, copy the processing div container and post it into your own
html doc, upload that to your website and put the .jar file in the same directory.

I did that for a non-profit here, a made a roll-over "thing" on their homepage:
lrwp.org  
I now regret using processing though, I am going to re-write it in javascript, (when time permits)
looking back it was a dumb idea to do this(but fun)

Yes, web development can indeed get complex.  No argument there.  And yes, the Processing environment does a good job of "getting out of your way" and letting you concentrate on what you want to work on.

However, I feel strongly that the solution to "problem W is hard, but problem G is easy if I use P" is not always "I should try to do problem A using P, too."  And in case my little secret code is too hard to crack, there, W = web development, G = graphics, and P is Processing.

Processing isn't made to make websites.  It's made to make graphics.  So naturally, making graphics with it is easy.  Making websites with it will be more pain and anguish than I think you are ready for.

If you're having trouble doing web programming, look around for some tools that are made to do that.  Like my Mamma taught me, use the right tool for the job.  And in this case, Processing ain't the right tool.

There's a zillion good, great, and crappy web frameworks out there to choose from.  If you care to list the type of functionality you're trying to create in your website, I don't doubt that some of the smart people here may have more specific suggestions as to which ones might suit you best.

If you want to try something other than Java for web development I can recommend a site covering a nice subset of PHP in a clear and concise way like the Processing documentation.

http://devguru.com/technologies/php/home.asp

I once downloaded all the PHP reference in one HTML file and it was so large that my computer could barely display it, then I found this and have developed a simple site that should let me add things easily. Its a start at least.

PhiLho  wrote on Mar 9^th, 2009, 11:46pm:

Toxi made www.lateral.net enterely in processig some years ago. He used plone.org as CMS.

PhiLho, not quite source code generation, but using a magic thing called XML... the current lateral.net site is not the one f4 referred to, a screenshot of the one in question is here:

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/01/treemap_website_layout.html

the website was an interactive treemap visualization of the entire cms database content. you could navigate from anywhere to anywhere with just one click. selecting a cell would maximize it until other cells can't be shrunk any further and then display content within the given area, all using a custom gui framework, html parsing and layout templates for different content types...