[RobbieD90]

I have decided that the best way to learn PHP is to dive straight in and get some practical learning in.

So I am going to start a football related forum. I have chosen vanilla forum to do this as I think this gives something different compared to all the others. Now what I am after is some help. I have installed it locally (and correctly) and everything is working fine.

What I am wanting help with is the following:
1. I need help to get me started creating a custom theme. Mainly I want to change the colour scheme and the header and navigation. Also I want to add a logo to the site as well.

2. I want to start a blog that will be the home page. How do I make the blog the homepage?

3. What sort of hosting will I need to get me started?

Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.

This post has been edited by RobbieD90: 06 January 2012 - 08:48 AM

[rallport]

RobbieD90, on 06 January 2012 - 08:46 AM, said:

I have decided that the best way to learn PHP is to dive straight in and get some practical learning in.

So I am going to start a football related forum. I have chosen vanilla forum to do this as I think this gives something different compared to all the others. Now what I am after is some help. I have installed it locally (and correctly) and everything is working fine.

What I am wanting help with is the following:
1. I need help to get me started creating a custom theme. Mainly I want to change the colour scheme and the header and navigation. Also I want to add a logo to the site as well.

2. I want to start a blog that will be the home page. How do I make the blog the homepage?

3. What sort of hosting will I need to get me started?

Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.

YOu won;t leanr too much PHP downloading some open source software and skinning it.

[RobbieD90]

rallport, on 06 January 2012 - 05:26 PM, said:

YOu won;t leanr too much PHP downloading some open source software and skinning it.

Fair enough. Thanks

[pat24]

RobbieD90, on 06 January 2012 - 06:04 PM, said:

Fair enough. Thanks

Rallport is right, you wont learn much php using vanilla it is however very customisable, if you still want to go ahead with this let me know

Pat

[Spitfire]

1. http://vanillaforums...themequickstart

2. Vanilla Forums doesn't have any blog functionality as far as I'm aware. I'd advise using Wordpress for that. There's plenty of support for combining Vanilla with WP.

3. Bit subjective really. How big is your forum going to be?

[pat24]

Spitfire, on 06 January 2012 - 07:33 PM, said:

1. http://vanillaforums...themequickstart

2. Vanilla Forums doesn't have any blog functionality as far as I'm aware. I'd advise using Wordpress for that. There's plenty of support for combining Vanilla with WP.

3. Bit subjective really. How big is your forum going to be?

there is a blog add on http://vanillaforums...on/364-blogthis how good it is I dont know.
Aas spifire says vanilla can be integrated with wordpress easily

[RobbieD90]

Thanks for the offers of help guys. The whole point of organising the forum was to learn some PHP, as I prefer the hands on learning. So if I am not going to really learn anything from doing it I might just stick with organising the blog. With a bit of luck I might learn some PHP as I go along doing that.

Is there anything you could recommend me doing that could get me into PHP?

[webdesigner93]

RobbieD90, on 07 January 2012 - 04:33 PM, said:

Thanks for the offers of help guys. The whole point of organising the forum was to learn some PHP, as I prefer the hands on learning. So if I am not going to really learn anything from doing it I might just stick with organising the blog. With a bit of luck I might learn some PHP as I go along doing that.

Is there anything you could recommend me doing that could get me into PHP?

I have taught a few people php if your interested message me on here with your skype

[RobbieD90]

webdesigner93, on 07 January 2012 - 08:35 PM, said:

I have taught a few people php if your interested message me on here with your skype

Thanks mate, I wouldn't mind if that's OK. I'll have to get me self a web cam and a mic first. But, when I have I'll let you know.

Thanks very much.

This post has been edited by RobbieD90: 08 January 2012 - 10:01 AM

[webdesigner93]

RobbieD90, on 08 January 2012 - 10:00 AM, said:

Thanks mate, I wouldn't mind if that's OK. I'll have to get me self a web cam and a mic first. But, when I have I'll let you know.

Thanks very much.

bro i just teach with typing i dont have a cam or mic eather so thats ok