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Friday, June 14, 2013

PHP variables part 1

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Variables

A variable is an area of memory which is set aside to store information , this is assigned an identifier by the programmer . You can recognise variables in PHP because they are prefixed with the dollar ( ) sign . To assign a variable you use the assignment operator ( = ) . Here is an example of this.

The Importance of Color When Designing a Website

4:00 AM Web Development No comments

The Color Factor

The importance of color in designing a website is often overlooked by web designers when in fact it is one of the key elements in presenting an aesthetically pleasing site. Color selection could "make" or "break" the website because in reality there are vast choices of sites available. The first visual impression given by the site upon loading can determine if the user would continue to explore the site or click the window's close button.

For starters, proper color combination should be taken into consideration. The first part of the article is to refresh your knowledge on the color wheel. A basic color wheel consists of 12 colors, the three primary colors are Blue, Red and Yellow. Orange, Purple and Green are the secondary colors, they are created from combining two primary colors while tertiary colors are created by mixing primary and secondary colors.

What Features To Look For When Applying For Good Hosting Plan

5:30 AM Web Development No comments

When looking for a host, it will be useful to obtain as much information as possible about the web hosting company itself and the services they offer. These pre-sales questions are a way to check several things about the web hosting company. You can obtain detailed information about the services they offer - the web hosting plans they have, the features included there, etc.

These days hosting plans on the web are getting very competitive and features of each plan are comparatively the same among web hosting providers. Whether novice or expert, you can find some useful information in this article to learn about some of the considerations to look at when you choose a web hosting service.

In this article I will not talk about things like space ,traffic and prices since there are plenty of related articles nowadays rolling around the net. My goal will be to clarify some of the most important features you have to look for when choosing your web hosting provider.
The following are 10 basic features that can be found in a Unix/Linux hosting plans that every serious hosting provider should offer you.

Create A Google Sitemap

9:34 PM Tutorials, Web Development No comments

One of the hot new website promotion tips du jour is the Google Sitemap. This is a small XML file that sits on a website and provides information for Googlebot when it comes to visit. Is this file useful? What does it do? How do I create one? How do I get Google to find it? Well, let me tell you.

Firstly, the general consensus on whether or not a Google Sitemap is useful is that, well, the jury is still out. The official stance from Google is that this entire program is in Beta so there are no promises or guarantees. Perhaps by understanding what this file is for we can infer its usefulness.

Some Benefits of CSS

9:32 PM Web Development No comments

CSS allows you to make changes to all of the web pages that link to the CSS file at once by changing a style in the style sheet, instead of having to manually change every style in every HTML file.

If CSS did this and only this, they would save you a lot of time to say the least, especially if you have a large or multiple web sites. This alone is worth learning CSS, however, style sheets allow you to do this and much more.