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im REALLY new to having my own forum and buiding web sites.
But id like to learn the ins and outs of how to customise and understand the code and etc. that makes up the forums.

I guess i just need to know where to start and then go from there.

If anyone knows of any free tutorials or sites or good books i can buy please let me know. any help is appriciated

Where to start all really depends on how new you are to coding and making customizations. The best thing is to probably try creating your own small PHP scripts and get to know the basics of PHP, MySQL, HTML, etc.

The best place for PHP is the PHP docs:

http://php.net/docs.php

Some sites online that offer tutorials on basic knowledge of web languages is:

http://w3schools.net
http://webmonkey.com

There may be other suggestions from others, but those are mine .

PS: Moved to Chit Chat.

Ops, it's w3schools.com, sorry.

I've some tutorials at my web developing forum in PHP & HTML which is basically the only languages you have to know in this case.

Direct links

HTML Basics:
http://devyourweb.com/forums/topic.php?id=129

The most essential of PHP:
http://devyourweb.com/forums/topic.php?id=135

(PHP) Few snippets for the newbie:
http://devyourweb.com/forums/topic.php?id=60

Jontish wrote

I've some tutorials at my web developing forum in PHP & HTML which is basically the only languages you have to know in this case.

Direct links

HTML Basics:
http://devyourweb.com/forums/topic.php?id=129

The most essential of PHP:
http://devyourweb.com/forums/topic.php?id=135

(PHP) Few snippets for the newbie:
http://devyourweb.com/forums/topic.php?id=60

those links dont work

Sorry, I changed my forum software.
New links:

HTML Basics
http://devyourweb.com/index.php?topic=41

The most essential of PHP
http://devyourweb.com/index.php?topic=44

(PHP) Few snippets for the newbie
http://devyourweb.com/index.php?topic=45

Jontish:

You should redo the HTML Basics on your forum. It's old and deprecated.

I looks like HTML2.0, while 4.01 and xHTML are mostly used now a days. Styling should be done by CSS, and not in the HTML itself.

I see stuff like:

<p align="center">blah blah</p>

For styling that in HTML, you should use:

<p style="text-align:center;">blah blah</p>

All tags are uppercase, which should be lovercase. The document doesn't say anything about doctypes, which means browsers are guessing what to do with the markup, instead of telling it to render it like it should.


So, basicly to the topicstarter: Don't use the links Jontish gave, using that is going back in time for like 15 years...

Hehe true RaZ, after reviewing Rhumor's (the HTML Basics was posted by Rhumor in the old forum), I found out that it has some weaknesses.
I will rewrite one soon.

You should check the other links tho, they're fine.