HTML is the basic one, really.

I think every Well-Brought-Up Young Lady today needs to know HTML.

PHP is like Magic HTML. And SQL is the storage and retrieval system you need for the ingredients when they get above a certain size.

But we should probably have this chat in Buffistechnology if we're going to go on in details.

PHP/MySQL is a good combo for low cost web solutions, for instance.

But ita I am embarrasingly rich! :-P

PHP is like Magic HTML

Yay.

Ta John.

Do people come across the acronym L.A.M.P. much?

It means "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP". So we are, I'd guess, a LAMP site? Though I don't know about the L.

Anyway, all four technologies are open-source and free, so it's a deliberate contrast with dot-net, which isn't free and doesn't stand for anything.

I think every Well-Brought-Up Young Lady today needs to know HTML.

Mine does!

Now if I can just educate her in the evils of (A) background patterns and (B) background MUSIC, I may just avoid the necessity of removing her from the meme pool.

Actually, not so much. HTML is markup language -- it's all about presentation, and not about logic.

PHP is an actual programming language that's easily embedded in HTML, and provides a fair amount of server side logic.

it's all about presentation, and not about logic

Oh, but it was supposed to be! And, XHTML, and, and, my metaphor of CSS being like Han Solo riding to the rescue of Princess HTML...

No, seriously, all I meant was really that if you want to learn PHP, you should have a grounding in HTML first -- that's the order to learn them in.

Would it be possible (by which I mean convenient, since it's obviously possible) to make Press work like the non-sidebar threads when it's clicked on from the Message Center? Currently, unless there are unread messages in the thread, clicking on it only shows the most recent post, which is almost never the announcement I'm looking for. If the thread title for Press could work like "recent" instead of "last," it would save me an extra click. (And an extra pageview, which saves on bandwidth, right? Good for me, good for the board.)

It's a known issue, Jess. At present all the sidebar threads only show the last post while all the main threads do the "recent" thing. We definitely want the two sections to be consistant. Last time it was brought up, consensus was that all should only show the last post. The logic is that if you're caught up in a thread and click on the title, it's probably because you want to post something in it, not reread posts. So it makes more sense to not have to scroll down a bunch of posts to get to the text box. Plus it saves on bandwidth since there's less text to load.

Huh.

Can't seem to create a new thread, and we needs one.