you guys can just take a direct learning approach instead of slowly integrating concepts from hands-on-code experience, by picking up copies of an xhtml book, javascript, css (some books cover most of that plus XML), as well as a PHP or ASP book. PHP is, indeed, simple in terms of the language constructs, but logic and the creative use of f(x)'s is what provides the real challenge to programming. Once again, a book will help guide you in this aspect and minimize the stranded state most tyros experience when working with a new technology (assuming such a person hasn't programmed or did too much work in web languages). If you know html, php isn't too hard to get by. You just might want a book because it may allow you to focus better on learning it. I personally recommend Sams PHP and MySQL development, available at Amazon.com for about $34
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