If you’ve ever used magpie to display your latest blog pages on a regular PHP page then you probably noticed at some point that your curly quotes don’t show up properly, this is the code you can use to do it right.
Below is a quick tutorial to show you how to show and hide elements on your page. If you have a good understanding of how to target elements in an HTML page using CSS, you’ll be amazed at how easy jQuery is to use.
It’s unfortunate, but all browsers don’t use the same rendering engines to show web pages. This means that the same combination of HTML and CSS can look different on different browsers. Figuring out how to make your site look the same on all browsers is a big part of web design.
For a beginning web designer MySQL can seem a bit daunting, but a little learning goes a long way, when you get into making sites with Wordpress or another CMS for instance, it pays to know how to get into phpMyAdmin (or sequelpro) and run sql queries on your database incase you need to search and replace text (just one example)
PHP is a scripting language for web pages that has become very popular because it is open source and is widely supported on shared servers. With NO programming experience, someone with HTML skills can start writing some simple PHP to supe up their sites with the help of the links below.
Photoshop is a part of every web designers arsenal, even if you decide to do most of your design work in Illustrator or Flash, you’d still use photoshop to cut up images and save them for the web. Also there are a lot of effects you can add to vector art work, not to mention good old fashioned image retouching…
