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Photoshop tutorials and PHP software

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Hi guys

Well i've got my exam for my Dreamweaver webdesign course tomorrow. So work are getting on at me about building the office a website. I'm going to be creating a site for our hub/office for the company and linking back to the main transas.com site for indepth product info.

I've been told that the group want all hub/offices to standardise the sites now. So they are going to be providing me with a default template to use a bases for our site. But i've been told that my pc needs to run both MySQL and PHP to get it to work.

Does anyone know of any free PHP software that i can use?

Also i want to start playing with photoshop to create graphics for the site (and my personal site). Can anyone let me know of any good tutorials to get me started?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Erm well Good luck with the dream weaver test ill be doing the same thing next year :p Im doing that course at my school when im in Year 10!

    Erm regards the PHP stuff dont dreamweaver do PHP? or if your really good Notepad!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I've practically learned 80% of dreamweaver in 2 weeks all by myself

    If you are using a template then it should be pretty easy to complete

    Dreamweaver has all the tools built in< php included i believe
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Both MySQL and PHP are free anyway, so is the apache webserver, you could run all three on your computer. It'd be better to have a cheap and nasty machine set up as a linux box to do it though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well, PHP and MySQL, are opensource web application components that run on a web server.

    To build php websites with a MySQL database, you need several things:

    A web server
    PHP
    MySql

    The easist way to do this is to download XAMP:
    http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

    This is a bundle which has everything you need to make a webserver and get started. Alternatively you can manually create the webserver yourself buy downloading and installing the components seperately:

    Web Server:
    Apache http://www.apache.org/
    or
    ISS http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/iis/default.mspx

    PHP:
    http://www.php.net/

    MySQL:
    http://www.mysql.com/

    The other way is to buy a webserver from an online hosting company that has php and mysql, and test your php pages remotely. This is the easier option, but can be costly.

    Dreamweaver also contains documentaion that explains how to build web applications, and how to set up a web server.

    Hope this helps.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    youngbull, if you need it and cant be bothered with setting up php mysql and the like i'll setup a hosting account for you for free for the duration of your testing.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Cheers Sonicaab, I've downloaded that. i'm sure theres a PC knocking round the office that i can use to build and test the site.

    Anyone got any ideas on learning Photoshop for graphic work?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    www.good-tutorials.com is fantastic
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    softworld wrote:
    www.good-tutorials.com is fantastic
    i was just about to suggest that :D
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