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I´m learning how to use Joomla and I need a template. Joomla uses php/xhtml made templates and there are many free ones awailable but none of them look like what I need, some come close but in general they are too complex and cluttered for my taste. So I´d like to make my own template or figure out how to make modifications.Is there a good tutorial anywhere that you know of about how to make such a template?

O.k. thanks for the tips, I´m going to order the book asap. I´ve found one os gallery calleded coppermine, it seems very popular. Know of any other good ones I might look at?Can you tell me is there a way to look at the php code on a site, like one can look at the html in a browser using "view source". Or is that something that is in general not possible?

O.k. I see, have you had any experience with ruby on rails? I´m trying to decide between the two, which one I should learn to use.Php has the advantage that everybody uses it and it has huge support, f.eks. this subforum, and there are gazillion libraries and tutorials out there.RoR has the advantage that it enforces strict rules on how to do things, making it easyer to understand a code someone else has designed.Or so Ive heard, my mind is melting from trying to figure out this alphabet soup of applications, programming languages etc.

Thanks, that exactly what I needed, a term to describe what I was looking for.Any idea of the complexity level for a project like this, in terms of; novice, advanced or expert?

I would like customers to be able to define the type of widgets they are looking for by marking off a checklist. Each item would have a photo and be tagged in the DB beforehand with relevant features. I´d like the results to show a linked picture of the best mach, followed by textlinks to the runner ups. I´d like the software to calculate what widget is most popular by how many clicks it recieves and display a linked picture automaticly on the first page above the checklist. Alternatively I´d like a random linked picture displayed there every time the site is visited. Is this something I would/should/could use php & mysql to do? Thanks in advance from an absolute php beginner.

I've been searching both here and on the net in general about includes. I.e. Inserting a document within another document before it is displayed.I´m interested in this in particular to be able to make global changes to things like header, menubar, footer etc. Without having to do them by hand on each and every page (I´m talking non-database driven website b.t.w.).From what I´ve learned there are two types, server side includes (ssi) and client side includes. It is my understanding that one needs to use javascript to do a client side include and that it is in general a worse methode of doing this than ssi.What is your oppinion on this?Can you give an example of how this is done or better yet a tutorial similar to the ones you already have?Best regards.

O.k. now I can see that my suggestion is not really needed because one allways has an overwiev on the left of the page. Teaches me to look a little harder before I critisize a site

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First, thanks for this site. My suggestion for how it can be made even better is that by the "next" and "previous" buttons it could say something like "page 1 of 8" etc.Often a chapter starts by stating that one should have minimum knowledge of this or that other element, so in order to get that minimum knowledge one decides to skim it. So it would be nice to get an overview of how long the tutorial is and be able to know how far one is into it and how many pages are left.