I always wanted to give back to the society and lately, I told myself, “Why not teach the students on how to design and program a website?” In Singapore, not many have the web programming and design skills and I personally finds it very useful. Coincidentally, when I was back at home, my sisters wanted me to teach them how to do it. So I took this opportunity to try my teaching method.
Surprisingly, it’s much harder than I thought. There are so many things involved around this “Web” subject ranging from the technicality of web server technologies, web standards, HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS, Javascript, etc. And most of them correlated. Chicken and Egg problem.
I began to wonder, should I take at a high level approach or a low level approach? A high level approach would to be give them a well-finish site, like Wordpress, and start exploring parts by parts when they want to make changes to the website, wherelse a low level one will be explain bits and pieces and relate it to them.
What do all of you think? Do you all have any experience in learning or teaching?
June 16th, 2007 at 6:11 am
I would definitely love to learn how to design a website. And not low level either, as I prefer to dig in deep and get my hands dirty, so definitely high level. Wordpress is a good place to start. I for one would like to know how to build a theme. Also how to customize the three column i3Theme so the main part is on the left and both sidebars are on the right. I want to use it on my site but iwant both sidebars on the right. I love your website by the way. It’s very nice, and informative too.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Oh and I almost forgot to add that I want to move the search field out of the header and into the sidebar. I tried it with the widget and it did not work.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
staticbrain.com: Thank you very much for your complement. Hope for your continual support at MangoOrange.com.
With regards to the search field, I will take a look at it, however, I can’t promised a quick reply on it as I’m pretty stuck with a lot of work lately as the deadline drawing closer.
Thanks again.