At some point, people who have some knowledge of HTML and/or CSS eventually need to do more, and usually they start wondering if they should learn PHP. Most, in fact, have already played around with it a little because they’ve made some minor adjustments to existing PHP code... 

Yesterday, I showed you how I chop up a free CSS template into pieces so that site-wide elements can be automatically included via PHP. That’s the first step I usually take when customizing a template, but it’s definitely not the last step. Today I’m going to show... 

  I thought I’d share my normal procedure for starting a new web site, using a free CSS template, chopping it up into separate PHP parts, editing bits, and putting it all back together again. Unless you are a web designer by trade, or have one that works for you, you may... 

If you’ve been thinking of learning CSS but have become lost in the seemingly endless number of CSS tutorials that exist, you may want to read on. I’ve compiled my favorite CSS-related sites that specifically help the CSS newbie grasp the essential concepts. I cut my own... 

I often want to list items with an image that is floated to the left or right of a block of text, followed by another image floated to the left or right of its block of text, followed by another, and another. The problem is that unless there is enough text to equal or exceed the length of the image,...