More Free Templates

Having posted about Open Source Web Design in the past, when I found Templates Box, I thought it was worth a link. It's another quality collection of free, ready to use, web site templates. There's also a section for Flash site templates.

If you wanted to see an open design in action, I built my recent Staff Scheduling site for Oriador much faster by starting from an OSWD template.

More Learning Links

As I said in last weeks post, I'm trying to use a little bit of festive downtime to play with some of the books and tutorials that I've collected in recent months. I've picked up a couple of useful looking PHP links, which I thought I'd share.

I've never had to look at PHP before, I haven't needed to do a lot of web scripting, and all my web hosts have been Windows based. The new Dreamhost account I've picked up to learn Ruby On Rails is my first unix based host, so I've been keeping my eyes open for PHP stuff. Good PHP Tutorials looks like it could be a good place to start.

The Symphony Advent Calendar project takes 24 days and 24 articles to build a complete Web 2.0 application using PHP and the Symphony framework.