In the next few posts I will be constructing the above with my 12 year old daughter. Our aim was to get a decent computer for her to use without having to turn her (and me) into a criminal (cracking software). It is also a good project for us both, never having built a computer before.

First component: We chose an Asus Barebones kit (Box, motherboard and power supply), £109, from Amazon.co.uk. Not the cheapest option, but Asus Kits were recommended here.

You could buy a box and motherboard cheaper (here for quick guide), but we wanted small. We chose the Intel over AMD as the fans are apparently quieter in these models. Shuttle also offer good barebones kits, but are more expensive and the cheapest kit seemed to have no space for an internal optical drive.

Go here for some tech tips and interesting tools for your web development skills

Here is the link to the w3schools website, great tutorials for all things to do with web, this site is run by w3c organisation who work out what the web is and how it should run. I recommend the xhtml tutorials and the css tutorials especially.

Click here to access the wikki if you forgot the url

If you like Youtube or Google Videos then this fiefox add on allows you to download the videos as .flvs. You can then watch them on your vlc movie player!