Tutorials

Building websites that are dynamic require tools and software including but not limited to a Web Server, PHP, MySQL, and all other libraries and tools you may require.

You can of course set this all up using a program such as XAMPP inside of Windows, but doing it manually gives you more control of the settings and lets you move to production easier.

To setup a “localhost” server you need to download the following software.

In this video tutorial, David from GeekThis will draw a Coffee Cup or Tea Cup inside of SketchUp. SketchUp is a free 3D Drawing program that you can download. It supports most operating systems and most computers can run it.

This tutorial shows off some tools such as the Pencil, Rectangle, Arc, Circle, Follow Me, and the Intersect Faces option. These tools will allow you to draw many other objects as well, and can be seen used in our other SketchUp Videos.

If you ever needed text, drawing, lines or almost any “drawing” animation this tutorial will help you. This will teach you how to animate drawn text to look like it is being written out live. This is done using masking inside of Adobe Flash Professional CS6.

Flash Professional is a piece of software from Adobe that allows you to create animations, videos, advertisements, games, and more. For instance, most video players on websites are created using Flash, and most video animations are created using it also.

In a previous video and post Code Blog in HTML and CSS, we worked on a HTML and CSS Blog. The blog was very basic. So in this video we are going to add PHP to the blog so posts will be loaded from a database. This means, instead of modifying the files of your website over and over again, you can insert a post into a database.

There are a few requirements you need for this tutorial. You need PHP, Apache or other web server software, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin if you are not sure how to code in SQL. These usually come with all hosting companies that you buy from. But if you wish to do this for free, you can download XAMPP or LAMP, there are other options.

If you ever wanted to make a website, starting off can be confusing. David creates a website using Notepad along with HTML and CSS right in front of your eyes. This video isn’t as much as a tutorial as it is a visual display of how websites are made.

If you are interested in learning how to create a website, the first steps are to learn HTML and CSS. Make sure you learn CSS because it will save you time in the future and make your websites much more appealing. A great tip on learning how to program is to look at other’s code and modify it to see what does what (don’t release or share it). Also never copy and paste code, always type it manually. Typing it allows for you to fully understand everything that is going into the code.