Web Development Posts
I used to love this saying in business meetings. A bunch of us would be sitting around discussing something like a new sales process. With every contribution to the discussion, the process became ever more complex. And then someone would say "keep it simple stupid", or KISS for short. We would all suddenly realise that we were over complicating the process and that would lead to its downfall.
By Kevin Yank, Sitepoint
"Build your own database driven website using PHP and MySQL" is aimed at those beginning PHP programming. Its author, Kevin Yank, is an experienced programmer, author and editor at Sitepoint. Kevin guides you through the stages of developing a database driven website. In order words, you will build a simple content management system.
At long last I have found a website that incorporates Flash without overusing it and turning off visitors.
Web Developer Johan De Silva's website is a HTML based site that embeds Flash into its home page, rather than a fully blown Flash website. I prefer this approach because search engines can not read full Flash sites, they tend to be slower than an HTML based site and are often over "flashy".
The web is built on HTML. It is its foundation. Therefore it is very important that you understand it inside out if you want to be a web designer/developer. Thankfully the web is full of great resources to help you along the way.
Ensuring that websites are compatible with all of the major browsers is an important part of any web designer/developers job. But it can be a frustrating and time consuming process. Thankfully, there is a fairly painless technique that you can employee to make the task a lot easier.
Learning PHP and MySQL can be a daunting task, especially if you do not have any programming experience. You are probably confused about all these arrays, functions, objects and classes.
Luckily the internet is full of some great tutorials and reference guides to help you along the way.
People who have never designed a website before normally have no idea what the process is. Even people who do design and develop sites for a hobby or living, do not know the best practices. I have been guilty of this myself. I get an idea in my head and jump straight into coding the site. There is no surprise that the site does not look or function correctly.
I have never been a fan of flash sites. A bit of flash is fine to jazz up a site, but I find full flash sites annoying, slow to load and just plain pointless. Combine this with the fact that you are essentially counting yourself out of any decent search engine traffic and you have got an internet disaster on your hands.