Database tuition

[amiman]

I have a website that is hosted on a Linux server it is php enabled and has a MySQL database. I know nothing about either. But I think my website

http://www.**********.co.uk

would be better using both. It has about 140 static pages at the moment and from what I understand it would reduce this amount to about 10 or 20. But the questions I have are:-

1, are static pages better for search engines to spider or doesn't it make any difference

2, is it easy to learn MySQL and PHP

3, can you recommend any books that are easy to follow.

4, or do you think I sould just leave it as it is.

Any help / advice would be appreciated because I would like to do this before it gets any bigger.

Thanks in advance

[amiman]

Somebody on this forum must be able to answer this surely

[NogDog]

1, are static pages better for search engines to spider or doesn't it make any difference

I don't believe there is any problem as long as each page has a unique URL.

2, is it easy to learn MySQL and PHP

Depends on what you know about databases, SQL, and programming already. If you've never done any programming, it will not be "easy", though it may not be as difficult as some other programming languages. If you have some programming experience and know some SQL, then you'll probably find it a fairly easy system to learn.

3, can you recommend any books that are easy to follow.

Check the O'Reilly web site (www.oreilly.com) and check out some of their PHP/MySQL books.

4, or do you think I sould just leave it as it is.

That's your call, not mine. It all depends on what you want your web site to do and how you want it to do it.