hi i am currently learning how to web development and what i was wondering is if people could give me ideas for dummy sites to build. just need something to help keep the practice up lol. thanks in advance.

To practice your design and CSS skills take a look at csszengarden.

Make sure you read and understand the concept, basically you don't touch the HTML only the stylesheet.
Have a look at what others have come up with and let your creative juices flow, maybe you could even get listed on the site.

Edited April 3, 201412 yr by Wynn

Do something you enjoy, when i was learning i built text based games as at the time i played several of them. I found i had alot more motivation doing something i liked and therefore learnt more and quicker

thanks for the ideas. always thought about maybe trying a simple zork type game in php or something.

 

love the zengarden, although how do you create this one http://www.csszengarden.com/215/ love the style on this one espically the robot.

In the footer of each design there's a link 'View this designs CSS'.

Edited April 3, 201412 yr by Wynn

Do something you enjoy, when i was learning i built text based games as at the time i played several of them. I found i had alot more motivation doing something i liked and therefore learnt more and quicker

 

Especially when learning working on things you enjoy always makes things seem that little bit easier.

 

A site I use for ideas, more for components than full projects, around which I 'compile a site concept' that I the plan out into a full project is Codrops. Even if you don't user their blueprints and tutorials in your next project I am sure you will learn a lot from experimenting like I do Plus there is the added bonus that many of the mini projects on the site are the results of designers experiment with current technology.

thanks again for the info.

 

just outta interest can i make a search for instance tyres on my site that would then pull info from likes of adsa tyres and kwik fit sites and complie into a list on my page? and what language would i use for it?

thanks again for the info.

 

just outta interest can i make a search for instance tyres on my site that would then pull info from likes of adsa tyres and kwik fit sites and complie into a list on my page? and what language would i use for it?

 

I believe that unless these sites provide some kind of API (which allows you to pull particular data), then you will have to maintain your own. This can be achieved with languages such as PHP, Coldfusion and ASP. These are all server-side language able to render in the browser. You'll need a web server and the appropriate software to use each language. To store your data, you should use something like MySQL, an open-source solution. You may also use a flat-file database, which is simply text files, though these are not so common in applications.

 

All of the aforementioned will be readily available in a Content Management System such as WordPress (originally a blogging platform, but has since grown into a fully-fledged website solution with literally thousands of plugins to choose from), Drupal (I have never ever recommended this, but I have never used it, either - but again, it is also in use by many [albeit dropping in popularity]).