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Just go with wordpress. Once you learn how to reverse engineer it, you can pretty much not refer to it as wordpress anymore. I'll dismantle a theme in an hour to get what I want. It's those extensions that I just love because they've saved me so many hours of coding. -Lou

Not true if you know AS3. You can setup a timer function, with a stop() command on every piece of the timeline, and have the timer function go back one frame at a time based on the timer's interval. -Lou

This deserves props. Good find!... I've always loved jQuery for it's cross-browser-compatibility. Except for the position center bug in Chrome. -Lou

I hope you're not too scared of torrents: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5043371/Lynda.com.PHP.With.MySQL.Essential.Training.DVD Merry Christmas, -Lou

Coding from scratch is only quicker if you aren't able to reverse engineer the wordpress content. Ironically, "reverseengineer" seems to use the exact same method that I use. Once you fully understand WP, web development becomes really freakin simple. Gotta love the plugins that save you hours...

Well if you want to store information (such as a site member's information -- name, e-mail, phone, etc.), I'd recommend you use a SQL table to do so. (google phpMyAdmin). If you want to display any SQL information back to that user, then you'll need to connect to the SQL database via PHP to...

In DW, try clicking "Commands" > "Clean Up XHTML..." That may help with a missing closing tag, which may be causing the problem. -Lou

I'd go with learning PHP and SQL at the same time. Or, learn Wordpress. -Lou

If you are serious about e-commerce, you should REALLY look into Magento (e-commerce based CMS). That's where all the magic is happening and it's basically the future of any e-commerce site. Incredibly powerful. -Lou

I TRY to design for IE7 and up, but if something gets in my way I make only a minimal effort to make it work -- So I pretty much shoot for IE8 and up. -Lou

The subject of your post is a bit broad. The top 5 wordpress plugins for an e-commerce site would be different than those of a portfolio site, or a forum site. Nevertheless, here are some plugins that I have found helpful: AJAX Login Widget++...

The reason I put FTP in front of those is so that the learning can have a fealing of self-mastery before they begin learning other things. -Lou

Thanks for the advice. I feel like that would go within my general discussion as the curriculum progresses. For example, when I mention negative margins, I'll definitely be mentioning this. This will probably be embedded in the CSS discussions the most. I'm glad that nobody has any severe...

lol yeah.. Not to be mean, but this is like trying to teach Jeff Gordon how to drive.

Anyone can go to w3schools and learn through text... most people will (i think) prefer video tutorials such as the ones created at lynda.com because videos will help explain a lot of what I don't say. I can imagine the amount of people that respond by saying, "where is that window in CS4?", for...

Hello everyone, So I decided on making web design (from A - Z) tutorials on youtube. I already do this, but I'm looking to make a series (part 1, part 2, etc.) that goes through all the skills that you need in order to become a web designer. The end result would be a step by step walkthrough...

I've been having issues with IE9 to be honest. Sadly, the best way to solve the issues is to edit the htaccess file to make the site render as if it were IE8. -Lou

Hello, Firstly, why not use a <br /> tag. I'm just curious on that one. To solve your issue, just put a span around "Toronto, ON, M5V 2A4" and use display: block; (Don't just put the span tag around Toronto, but rather the whole line) -Lou

Hello, Well you can't do it with just plain HTML. You would need to include server side scripting and a database. If you are a novice when it comes to php and databases, don't worry. There are services that will generate this for you. Go to the following link: http://pollcode.com/ It's...

Hello, The answer is yes, you can. As my shirt says "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" (google "local host" if you don't get the joke). The main question is, will you be using your own computer to do this presentation? All you will have to do is have the files located in your local host...