Ideas for a simple site.

[ctwizzy]

In wanting to learn something new, and for self-promotional reasons I am developing a website which will display my portfolio, resume, acomplishments etc.

I know JSP programming, C#, Java, XHTML, JavaScript, Advanced CSS etc, I dont like JSP as it seems over complicated for simple tasks, dont like Java much at all actually lol. PHP I hear is a much more "fun" web language to code in.

I am allready an experienced programmer knowing the fundamentals and OOP, so picking up PHP I hope wont be too hard.

So for my simple website what are some ways I can incorporate PHP into my site. I would like to gradually add some cool PHP features into the site so that I can learn PHP progressivly before I start making the kind of websites I usually would with Java (shipping cart, searchable database for inventory, user control pannels, decompression for zip files etc etc).

Anyways, any ideas and a place to start would be great thanks. No tutorials on "This is a loop", or "this is a variable" just a quick syntax guide woudl be fine, and ideas I can try incorportaing into a simple resume website.

Thankyou!!

[thorpe]

if your already an experienced programmer, the manual should be all you'd need to get started.

you may aswell run through the very brief 'getting started' tutorials. only take half hour then you'll be set.

then, just think of something you want to create, look up the functions required and get to work.

if you get stuck, there is always someone here willing to point you in the right direction.