I’ve worked on several sites lately where my client wanted each of their website members to have their own subdomain. Typically, when you set up a subdomain it takes up to 72 hours for the DNS to propagate and start working. I’ve been trying to find a way to allow subdomains to start working right […]
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PHP is a preprocessor which means that before your web page is loaded in someone’s browser, the server where the web page lives ‘pre-processes’ the web page. In other words, before the web page is delivered to the browser, the code for the page is first translated with the PHP translator on the server. To
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I used to set my background images with HTML. I realize that this way is deprecated – meaning that it is no longer a part of the HTML standard. But, since you may still see it done this way in old web pages, I want to include it here: <body background=”photo.jpg”> This may still work
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Some people ask me about the tools I use for web development. My favorite computer is my iMac with a 24 inch screen. I also have a dual monitor setup using a Samsung widescreen TV/Monitor. My next favorite is my 13 inch Macbook Pro. It is the perfect size. I had a 15 inch and
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One of the questions I get asked the most is how to make a link open in a new window instead of replacing the current web page. It’s usually a good idea to open external links in a new window or tab so that your visitors don’t move away from your website. Even if they
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards for the web. Most, if not all, browsers are written to comply with the standards created by the W3C. If you want to make sure that your web pages are going to work in most browsers, then you should validate your web pages to make sure that
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Sometimes for beginners, or even those of us that have been doing this for a while, it may be difficult to see how to use PHP and JavaScript together to make the page work correctly. I often have to stop and remind myself of the basics. HTML and JavaScript (which includes JavaScript libraries, such as
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The head section of your HTML page needs a title tag. If you don’t have one, you may see the file name or some other random text in your browser’s tab or border. To make your web page title show up in your browser’s tab or as the window heading, you need to use the
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