Hi guys and girls this is my first post and I would like your advice on building, programming websites, but more about me: Just finished Learning HTML and CSS course on Nettuts+ I finished the 30 day course and I feel quite comfortable making a website now, but I have realized I can't make my website with this knowledge all alone. Firstly I want to make a funny picture website like w w w. funcage .c o m Yeah I know this isn't an original idea, but I really like this types of websites and enjoy browsing through them. What I want in my website is where you get random funny pictures show up by clicking at a side button or just pressing keyboard left or right or just pressing refresh ,but I want to add a feature that you can comment and rate the picture as well how can I do this I cant seem to do this with HTML AND CSS alone do I have to learn something else? I think I have to learn PHP, but I am not sure. If you know what I have to do please advise me on what I have to learn and if you know any good resources where to do this from I would be very great full. I am not sure if I am posting this here right apologys if I posted here something wrong. Also sorry for bad english
There are so many scripts available in the internet. You can search and get them as you have knowledge about programming language then you can make changes in those sites easily.
Your best bet would be to use PHP and Javascript (or a javascript library, like jQuery). PHP is intended to be a 'server-side' programming language. This basically means that the server processes your PHP code and formats the output when requests are made (like a site visit), so the visitor never sees your PHP code. Javascript is a 'client-side' programming language, which means that the visitor downloads the code and THEIR browser processes it. These languages work in tandem with each other. You should install Wordpress, which is free, and go from there. You can find tons of free themes, edit them as their license allows, and you can create pages (make sure that you create a 'child theme' rather than edit the theme itself. That way if updates are applied later, your custom code won't be overwritten). There might be a wordpress 'plugin' that does exactly what you want, but if not, you can look into using PHP/Javascript to make your own. If you get lost during any of the process, youtube is a great visual resource.