Category Archives: Web Programming
Designing a Clean Website Gradients
Provided by developerdrive.com This is our third installment of how to design a clean a minimalist website. First we looked at navigation and how to make an accordion style drop-down menu with pure CSS3. Then we moved on to laying … Continue reading
Developing a Responsive Website the Footer
At this point we’re just about done with the homepage of our responsive website. We’ve got our navigation in place, our background images resize nicely, and our other elements are able to resize and adjust to various screen resolutions. Today … Continue reading
Implement an Image Slideshow Using a jQuery Plugin
Tutorial is provided by developerdrive.com Image slideshows are a dime a dozen on the web. You see them used for advertisements, featured articles, product showcases, and plain old photo reels. Today, we’re going to quickly implement a slideshow using the … Continue reading
Creating and Manipulating Modal Popups
Tutorial is provided by developerdrive.com Occasionally, I have needed a web page to call a child page in order to display information or to be used in a way to maintain information that will then be re-displayed back on the … Continue reading
Getting Smarter Code with PHP Variable Variables and Variable Functions
Oh, variables. Who doesn’t love them? They are such nice guys, you know. When you need something, just call $something and your value is there. But something really cool is that you actually don’t need the name of the variable. … Continue reading
How to Create a Web Spy with a PHP Crawler
Crawler, spider, bot, or whatever you want to call it, is a program that automatically gets and processes data from sites, for many uses. Google, for example, indexes and ranks pages automatically via powerful spiders, crawlers and bots. We have … Continue reading
Creating Your Own CMS Part 3 – Advanced Features
If you have been following along you should have a simple CMS built that has a place to securely log in and you should be able to create some users and access levels for your site. If you are creating … Continue reading
Creating Your Own CMS Part 2 – Access Levels & Administrators
Alright if you have read the first article that we worked on a while ago “Creating Your Own CMS Part 1 – Secure Login” then you should have some sort of CMS design with a secure login. Now that we … Continue reading
PHP for Beginners Part 4 – PHP With Forms and Final Notes
In the last part, I showed you how to use PHP to send e-mail messages. In this part I will continue this and also show you how to use PHP and forms together to make your PHP scripts more useful. … Continue reading
Coming Soon Page PSD Sitebuild
Today we will be entering the third step of our Beginning to End Series, coding our Coming Soon Page. Set up your folders like such: Slicing The PSD We need to start out by slicing the PSD. For our coming … Continue reading
How to Pull Custom Google Analytics Data with PHP
Google runs a very tight Internet media company offering outstanding resources to their users. Google Docs is perfect for online collaboration and document sharing. Gmail is a pristine example of how a Web e-mail interface should look. And their home … Continue reading
List of Powerful PHP Code Generators
As the most popular back-end scripting language used on the web today,PHP is supported by a slew of helpful tools that streamline work flow and increase productivity. Thanks in large part to its fairly shallow learning curve, it’s possible for … Continue reading
How to Install WAMP Server
For PHP programing we need a web server, so we use WAMP. The last available version was launched on 27 December 2010 and it has the following components: Apache 2.2.17 Php 5.3.5, Mysql 5.5.8 PhpMyadmin 3.2.0.1 SQLBuddy 1.3.2 XDebug 2.1.0-5.3 … Continue reading