Web Design Questions Regarding PHP, CSS, and some other stuff?

Question

I've looked all day for tuts online, but couldn't quite find something that seems right. Please help me

I heard from a friend that in the "old days", you have to "define" each and every web page (i.e. font, colors...), but NOW there is an easier way if you use PHP and CSS. That sounds fantastic, but how do I do it? If you know of any good and easy to understand (noobie/beginner) tuts online, please do share. =)

I browsed through a lot of web sites/pages today and I noticed that some of the addresses end like this: http://www.name.com while some are like this: http://name.com...why is it like that? I also noticed that some addresses end like this: ...name.com/something, while some are like this ....name.com/something.html and some like this ...name.com/something.php. Again, why is it like that? Can you remove/hide the .html or .php part of a web address?

Sorry for asking all these embarrassing noob questions. Thanks.

Answer 1

w3schools.com is a great resource for php, css, and html, php is not for making font color and all that though, its scripting for databases, cookies, email, interactivity(though javascript is widely used for that) and much more

a name.php page simply means that that page has php on it, it also has html and probably css

name.html means it only has html and probably css(could also be more), there are a lot of others file extensions too

There is a LOT to explain about all of that stuff and not nearly enough room on yahoo answers, just study all you can on w3schools about html, xhtml, xml, css, javascript, php/asp and then look up some stuff on servers, web hosts, domains, etc...you may wana take a web course if your really into it, if not and you just need to make a website for something you can always use freewebs.com or something like it.

Edit: You may come across the word deprecated in w3schools for html tags like or

Answer 2

As to your first question, php has nothing to do with it. Css does, though. Css is about as easy to learn as html, and although I am biased against w3schools, its probably fine. Anyway, CSS allows you to give an entire webpage certain properties.

Here is the general concept, assuming you know HTML.




...rest of code...

This would make any text on the page appear in orange. It gets more complex, but w3schools can help with that.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Answer 3

Here is a good start this is for css but if u look at the side they have php 2.. http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/CSS/1

Answer 4

If you read tutorials from websites, you can only read so much. Why dont you buy video training materials? This might be self serving but I happen to sell video training materials ( very very cheap, promise) about PHP, CSS etc, if youre interested, do email me. [e-mail]. Thanks.

Answer 5

Your server has to support the PHP extension. There is also .cgi, .asp, .pl, etc.

CSS is the approach myspace uses. Today web design is easy with xml.

Answer 6

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
go here!you wont regret it!=)