I'm lured by the idea of logically separating presentation from content and the whole standards compliance thing. Tables work, but now I feel guilty about using them, and I know that if I could just get a firmer grasp on making it do what I want, it'll be better in the long run. I'm a relunctant idealist when it comes to this. :) But.. at the beginning it feels like a losing battle. I have reasonable CSS skills, but not for the advanced stuff by any means.. that's one of my main goals.
I've played to small extents with php and it looks reasonably easy and quite fun. I do have programming experience, mainly with C++, so I'm not really worried about my ability to learn it. I just need to have a Reason to play with stuff like that--a worthwhile project to use to get started. There's only so many ways you can learn "Hello world" and the equivalent without getting bored with it! I guess I could try to cut my teeth with this, but I think that might be a little much to get started with. :) I was thinking just this week, though, that I'd like to see how I would like getting a little more involved with this, the dark half of web development. We'll see how it goes. :)
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Date: 2004-01-23 11:57 am (UTC)I've played to small extents with php and it looks reasonably easy and quite fun. I do have programming experience, mainly with C++, so I'm not really worried about my ability to learn it. I just need to have a Reason to play with stuff like that--a worthwhile project to use to get started. There's only so many ways you can learn "Hello world" and the equivalent without getting bored with it! I guess I could try to cut my teeth with this, but I think that might be a little much to get started with. :) I was thinking just this week, though, that I'd like to see how I would like getting a little more involved with this, the dark half of web development. We'll see how it goes. :)