Building a cool website using HTML, PHP and MySQL

Welcome to my little web page. This is not so much a tool for you as it is a tool for me. I have found that the best way to learn something is to try and explain what you know to someone else, and through the process of instruction make sure what you know actually works.

The cool thing about HTML and web page building is just how easy it is to get started, and how fast things can move. You can type up a web page in less than a minute and have it functioning on a web host in 30 seconds more. A web page with useful content to anyone else takes a bit more effort.

Current best practice is to seperate content and structure. Content is the material the visitor to the web page reads and uses, structure is formating, style and tools that make the web page work. This makes the page load a lot faster, makes the visitors time at the page more enjoyable because of more consistancy within the page, and makes error checking a lot faster.

Unless all there is to your web page is pictures of your cat, you want to make it dynamic. That is, you want to make it change on a regular basis. When there are new pictures of your cat, you want people to come by and admire them. There are lots of tools to help you make content dynamic and pages interesting.