pasham

[quote]If you want to create a PHP enabled websitwe you still need to use HTML to make the overal layout of your site and CSS to apply styles to your site. [/quote] [b]did i understand you correctly? all the visual part (how web site looks) is done by CSS ? and php is only a back-end operation, and processing/delivery of data?[/b]

Hello. I have a html website that is becoming harder and harder to manage since html is all manual... Want to re-do my site in php, BUT ! so far i can not find a single tutorial, guide or anything else that explains in simple english how php web building works. All i have found is info on how parsing, variables, this, that tech stuff that dont tell me anything. Looking at this site, for example, i like how menues look, what that little blue bar on top, how do i make that for example? Or, in html i know that index is first file and inside is code to call different pictures to display and text and so on, but all i saw in tutorials is programming code. Can someone point me into right derection for info on how to make html site look like php site. I know this may sound stupid but do i really have to spend 6-9 months taking a cource in php to learn it, or is it simpler then that? I have installed and tried phpnuke on my server, but also found it too complicated to transfer graphics and content from my excisting html based site into nuke. nuke has alot more thatn i need. my site has 5 menues on the left side, phpbb forum, total maybe 30 html files. this is my site, www.maloestado.com/main.htm its in russian but gives you visual look. what i want is uniform and conformity, neatness and dynamics. how should i go about it? in my phpbb forum i edited some files to put in my banner on top, that was easy, how do make rest of my site php?