We released our open source authorization system today. It helps you manage your users on your website, taking care of the following: - user registration (with optional e-mail verification) - user login - lost account retrieval - password changing - user session management - password protecting certain pages or sections of your website It is built using the CodeIgniter PHP framework so [...]
Continue reading...4. October 2007
Facebook is the new Microsoft Windows. Why? Before my time, Microsoft introduced Windows as a revolutionary new platform for developers make everyone’s lives easier. Apple came out with their aesthetic, remarkably easy interface that made (almost) everyone want a new Mac. It wasn’t long before these big companies like IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, HP and of course Apple knew [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2007
Need a website soon and don’t want to explore XHTML and CSS? Use this cool new online webpage designer I found the other day. Learning how to create website pages is a cinch with the help of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Dreamweaver, only this webpage designer is web-based (cross-platform) [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2007
First, you will need a text editor such as TextMate for Mac, Notepad or PHP Web Designer 2007 for PC. There are also two things you must learn after you read up on how to design a website. Those are: Learn XHTML. Learn CSS. These two components are essential to building a solid website. If you build [...]
Continue reading...9. August 2007
We just got a new website and new business cards! Tell me what you think! I carry my business cards around in a case from my favorite place to go. Our website is not that web2.0 looking, but it’s simple and very easy to navigate. We do of course build web2.0 websites however if you are interested [...]
Continue reading...3. August 2007
Call this a Guide to iMarketing in 2007. There are a lot of new technologies out there such as blogging, podcasting, social bookmarking and networking, search engine optimization, internet marketing and web2.0. I have been researching these technologies about 40 hours a week this summer to understand how everything fits together. Now, I want to [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2007
Yesterday, I came across a really cool site. He talk about topics I am interested in, such as SEO, web 2.0, blogging, marketing, and business in general. The other articles not pertaining to web design seem a little too opinionated and might scare some people off, but some of the web design articles are right [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2007
I have written a few articles on CodeIgniter now because it truly has changed the way I develop websites. It has cut the development time in at least half, preventing redundant work by providing great built-in features that I can use in every one of my projects. Plus, CodeIgniter is so easy to pick up. [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2007
I use the CodeIgniter and MooTools frameworks for my website projects nowadays. They are far easier to work with and understand if you understand Object Oriented Programming. If you are spaghetti coding your websites line by line, you will be in for a treat when you learn OOP. Here is how it works: Say you want [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2007
CodeIgniter is great because you can separate your content from your styling with controllers, models, and views. Another great thing is when you create a website with CI, you automatically use friendly URLs (if you use an .htaccess file). If you have a bunch of unrelated pages however, you might wonder how you can keep [...]
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16. October 2007
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