1. I am currently redesigning my complete website,
www.xboxgnome.com. I first did it in HTML Trans 4.01, then I thought that's too easy. So I did some recoding and got it to XHTML 1.0. Now I have a problem. I want to have a small 125x60 banner on each page, well I figure I can do that in 2 ways. PHP include to a PHP script ir SSI include to a Javascript page for random image. Which would be more effective or is there a better method?
2. In recoding my pages into XHTML, I have the DTDs for XHTML on my homepage, whenever I try to "preview" my main page which requires a .php extension for my b2 news blogger, it comes up with errors. But this same page, when uploaded to my host, works perfectly fine. If I do just change the extension to .php for php include or something, do I have to change anything else in my XHTML 1.0 pages?
3. I want to learn a scripting language, one that's online. My experience is minimal (check my website, and view the main page source). I know advanced HTML, and a little: SSI, XSSI, and XML. I want something that's fairly easy to pick-up, but can be more involved as I get better. It should be fairly useful also. But which scripting language and how do I start learning it?
Thanks for any and all your help.