CSS Box Model and it’s Hacks

1) Box Modle By W3C
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-box/
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html

2) The Box Model
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/css/box-model/

3) Make better Web pages by understanding the CSS box model
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6105783.html

4) Basic Box Model
http://redmelon.net/tstme/box_model/

5) Box Model Hack
http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

6) CSS Positioning: The Box Model
http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/

7) Box model tweaking
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/box.html

The IE box model and Doctype modes
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/about-boxmodel.htm

9) Extra: DTD Explained
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/html/dtds-explained

Liquid Layouts

1) Liquid layouts the easy way
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/liquid/#definitions

2) Colored boxes – one method of building full CSS layouts
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/process/

3) CSS Centering – fun for all!
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/

4) Sample CSS Page Layouts
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/page_layouts/

5) Environmental Style
http://realworldstyle.com/environmental_style.html

Just PHP will give you nothing… unless you upgrade yourself by Hasin Hayder by Hasin Hayder

This topic was actually posted by Hasin Bhai, I just made a summary of it and want to find out from here what should i learn next.

CSS: (maintain a list of websites where from you can get updates. Dont learn the CSS from book, but goto websites and see what is happening)

JS: you have to have some basic skills on basic javascript, but dont spend time for re inventing the wheels. Go for popular libs like Prototype, jQuery, Moo, Mootools, Scriptaculous, Dojo, Rico

Frameworks: Have to have proper knowledge on MVC framework. Most Popular frameworks for PHP are CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony

Never wait for only MySQL. Learn postgreSQL. PostgreSQL also developed a lot. Now its hardly a factor between them, if you talk abt performance. Beside that I must say postgre is much more mature, feature rich and thats why it is called “open source oracle”. And it is also necessary to learn atleast one of the embedded database like SQLite. Dont ever think that SQLite is less powerull. You can develop amazing apps using simply SQLite, with some “hacks” and “optimizations”.

If you are PHP developer and think you have learned enough already, let me give some suggestions. Please DONT think you have finished learning. Everyday there are new release from PEAR, PECL and many other providers. Please learn useful packages from PEAR. Also learn the following:

1. ezComponents
2. Zend Framework (dont mix framework with the MVC concept.. MVC is just a part of Zend Framework)
3. Popular opensource packages
4. PEAR
5. Templating engines like Smarty, Savant.

also keep yourself uptodate from the following sites

1. www.phparch.com
2. www.phpmag.net
3. www.phpmagazine.net
4. www.ajaxian.com
5. www.mashable.com
6. www.programmableweb.com
7. www.planet-php.org