silverglade Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Hi, people told me on the forum the best way to learn is not to look at tutorials that only teach you to do a specific thing, but if I don't use tutorials, I don't know how to make any applications, but I haven't learned the language totally either. But when I try to think up a project, I don't know what to make. Should I just look at a list of things you can make with php, do the pseudocode for it, then write the program? That is the only thing I can think of other than just copying a tutorial which I don't think is a good idea, or never really taught me in the past. Any advice greatly appreciated. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesta707 Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Finding something to do isn't really a standard practice. What interests you? Try making a website about it. Once you have a basic layout in HTML/CSS complete, think about how you can make it more dynamic with PHP. Try implementing a user login/register system. Then build from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverglade Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 Thank you. Yes I have 2 website ideas. I will probably have to look up tutorials for the parts of it like "image gallery", or like I had to look up "registration and login" on google. I will have to google "outputting html in php" or something similar because if I have a div that is going to have php output photos in thumbnails, I don't know how the vertical list of photos will effect the div which will expand and possibly change the page layout. I think I have to learn more about css and html. Does anyone know of a good book on CSS and HTML? I like having books. I do know about w3schools.com but I would like to have a book. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbconz Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 ...l. Does anyone know of a good book on CSS and HTML? I like having books. I do know about w3schools.com but I would like to have a book. Thank you. Awesome site here - examples and tutorials -> http://www.w3schools.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Awesome site here - examples and tutorials -> http://www.w3schools.com/ Not quite as good as you seem to think it is, actually. www.w3fools.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 You can try making small scripts or functions that are useful. From doing them you may realize what you can do with them. A small idea can turn into a large one. If need some ideas I could give you a big list....I have way too many ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverglade Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thank you very much. I will do some projects that I like. I think that will get me past most problems with it is if I like what I am doing even if it is a pretty big site idea. I will have to break it into pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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