Web Development Training Course? Help?

[sfarmilo]

Hi,

 

I have been tasked by the school to revamp the current website... trouble is I don't feel I have enough skill or experience to do this. While I have been picking away at bits of it, progress is slow and I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth.

 

Does anyone know of any good courses that I could take. Preferably it would cover HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and JavaScript? I do have some experience using HTML and CSS before and I'm currently doing a course on C# and SQL so I'm not new to programming concepts. It would be nice if I could find a free course but if there is a cost then it's not too much of an issue as the School have agreed to foot the bill for it...

[creese]

Try Groupon, Udemy, HRD Online

 

I have used them all for various projects.

 

Edit: Some $19 courses

Edited March 12, 2014 by creese

[Leeoakley]

If your looking at instructor led training, they often run a number of those topics as individual courses. This normally means its expensive!

 

How complicated does you site need to be? Have you mapped out what you want the site to be capable of doing? and what could be used to achieve it?

 

Lee

[AJWhite1970]

These any use to you?

 

Open I.T Training Deal - National: Amazon Local

UK Online College Deal - National: Amazon Local

 

Andrew

[bondbill2k2]

Id highly recommend checking out Tree House

[Bananas]

I'd ditch the site you have and redo the whole thing using a CMS like Wordpress. The wife is a graphic designer and does a fair few websites and she does everything in Wordpress using bespoke templates/Themes.

 

You can use a free blog at Wordpress whilst you play and once you're ready to create your own you can install your own copy of Wordpress on your own domain, you can leave the current site in place by installing wordpress into it's own folder say Home\wp and then when you've finished it setup a redirect to point people accessing the page to the index.html in the wp folder.

 

Sounds harder than it really is but its still a order of magnitude easier than trying to create a website in Dreamweaver or picking someone elses code apart.

 

Few links to help:

 

Learn WordPress.com

WordPress Tutorial - How To Create A WordPress Site

 

The wife taught herself how to use it and I did all the techy stuff, my hosting company actually provides a 1 click installer with Softaculous so installing and setting up a MySQL DB is done for you.

 

Apologies if that's not what you were looking for. I've not done my SQL stuff myself (CMIS aside) but managed to deal with all this stuff and it can produce some really nice sites and the best bit is updating them is done in a Word style interface so any idiot can do it (teachers aside lol).

 

Another brilliant feature is all the plugins/widgets you can use, you can add an RSS feed in seconds. You can even change the whole look of the site with a few mouse clicks to activate a new theme etc

Edited March 25, 2014 by Bananas

[mikeyd101]

I agree with CMS as way forward, means that once you have site/template setup content is much much easier, with the possibility to hand it off to others.

 

Wordpress is a good option (I've had few issues with security in past, but think its much improved now), I also had good success with CMSMS for less blog type sites there are many options out there and about the hardest bit is normally setting them up, once your over that its easier.

 

Also just because you use a CMS it doesn't mean you can't also develop custom content.

 

And there's always things like google sites