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Dan

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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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27th Jan 11 at 15:47

As ive now built a couple of magento based stores, im slowly learning html/css etc,but im far from building sites from scratch.

If i wanted to learn it, wheres the best place to learn? Can u dolike an online/at home training course?

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A2H GO

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27th Jan 11 at 16:05

I spent all weekend on onestoptutorials.com in an attempt to create a basic template for my ebay store using dreamweaver. Even using their step by step giude it was really difficult. Ended up getting a free template online and editing bits of the code myself.

Whittie

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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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27th Jan 11 at 16:33

Buy two books, php & dreamweaver for dummies

adiohead

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27th Jan 11 at 16:40

I have Dreamweaver for Dummies.

Couldn't be bothered to read it.

AndyKent

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27th Jan 11 at 17:26

I've got an amazing PHP reference book. About 700 pages long but brilliant for when you want to find out how to do something specific.

Best advice is to find a template and muck around with it until you get something you like. Nothing better than trying stuff out rather than reading tutorials I find.

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27th Jan 11 at 18:36

Why would you buy a PHP book? It's open source and the whole manual is online!

noshua

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27th Jan 11 at 19:00

As above, if you put in any of the elements there's loads of examples. It's piss easy to pick up once you know the basics.

I'd have a look at some quality coded templates and mess about with them. Get a decent editor like Notepad++

AndyKent

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27th Jan 11 at 19:16

Far easier for me to look at a book with the code on screen than flicking backwards and forwards.

Not all of us have the luxury of multiple screens

noshua

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27th Jan 11 at 19:21

I use a 15.6" laptop screen to code on, it's by far not the ideal setup - just open multiple tabs and get reading

Dan

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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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27th Jan 11 at 19:48

I have notepad++ and i have dreamweaver.

I just dunno where to start. I dont even really know what i want to be able to do.

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noshua

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28th Jan 11 at 17:47

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

look through some of the examples and just adapt them to different things

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28th Jan 11 at 22:05

quote:
Originally posted by AndyKent
Far easier for me to look at a book with the code on screen than flicking backwards and forwards.

Not all of us have the luxury of multiple screens

Copy and pasting code snippets from a paperback is so good, really glad my computer can do that.

Dan

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31st Jan 11 at 11:04

Seeings as this could be a useful place to start...

Ive just purchased and set up a simple fourm using phpbb for the cs lot who race on gt5

I now need to set up a simple page (like the cs first page) which can be filled with aload of text and a big click to visit forum banner.

Whats my best way going about doing this in a way where i can learn the most

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31st Jan 11 at 11:45

With any page like that you need to decide what data you want to display and where it comes from. I'm not sure how PHPBB works but in it's simplest form you could display a post count by counting the number of rows from the posts table in from the websites database like so:

code:


<?

    require_once('database-connect.php');

    $q=mysql_query('SELECT * FROM posts');

?>

(database-connect.php will contain the database authentication script).

To get that on the page you'd then put something like:

code:


Post Count: <? echo mysql_num_rows($q); ?>

You could put just those few lines in a page called welcome.php and then put the following in .htaccess:

code:


DirectoryIndex welcome.php

Just figure out what you're trying to do first and then get coding. All the stuff you need to know about PHP is on http://www.php.net/ and then if you're trying to solve a specific problem you can do a search and I'm sure you'll find a tutorial or a library which has what you need.

Dan

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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
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31st Jan 11 at 12:10

Ah, the cs main page has gone now lol...

I think i explained wrong, i only want a simple html page, which shows a logo, a click to visit forum banner, and a big area of text to fill with seo content.

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Whittie

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31st Jan 11 at 12:13

Do it in Dreamweaver. Mega easy if you use design view.

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31st Jan 11 at 12:36

Then all you need to do is build the page and take note of the DirectoryIndex part of what I said