Building My Brother’s Website
I’m going to start working on a website for my brother tomorrow. My brother is a coin collector and was interested in starting a coin grading website. Since I’m graphically challenged, I picked out a good template for him. I’m going to make it PHP based. I’m pretty new to PHP, but I’m really seeing the benefits of having PHP based sites versus HTML. You can do some sweet stuff with PHP. One of the biggest helps is the ability to do file includes. This is where your header is a file, your navigation is a file, and your footer is a file. With HTML to change your header you have to change the header on each page. Doing a file include with PHP you change your header file and it changes the header on all the pages automatically. It works nicely.
I will keep you posted on my progess of my brother’s site. I would give you a live link, but my hosting is just getting set up for it.
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Here it is http://www.truecoingrading.com. At this point I do very basic PHP stuff. I’ve messed with some complex stuff with OScommerce when I installed some contributions, but that was just copy and pasting and following instructions. When you are building from scratch you have to pretty much have the code memorized and know what it does.
Real sleek and I’m digging the fixed frame format, if that’s what it’s called. I’m not up on the genre though, but from a design perspective it is very sleek.
I’d definately be interested in seeing what you have put together. I’m new to PHP as well, but wouldn’t dare take on the task of creating a new website. Have fun with it and good luck with the project.