Welcome to   
"The Blog"

I finally got my URL's to display the right way and I pray I never have to go through this process again.  For those of you that are new to PHP and creating friendly URL's I will say this:

Make sure you know how you want your URL's ...

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You know, I had high hopes going into this but I should definitely know better.  Nothing is as easy as you think it is, especially when you’re learning it.

I took a look at my traffic results with analytics and I found that I was getting traffic on some long ass ...

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Connecting to the Database

Last tutorial I showed you how to create the database with phpAdmin.  Now I’m going to show you how to connect to the database with some PHP Code.

The first thing you need to familiarize yourself with is variable and MySQL statements.  I’ll go over it ...

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Through my experience as a web designer I worked at a few different companies and experienced lots of different things.  I went the whole college route and was told how the “real world” would be.  But you don’t really understand what it is until you experience it.

So through this writing ...

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I am officially starting the PHP Blog and News application tutorial. This tutorial is really for beginners to intermediate PHP developers. If you're an expert you will get bored as you probably know alot more then I do on this matter BUT feel free to chime in if you see ...

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Allow the user to browse the site quickly and easily.  For a stronger, more effective web design, remember these conventions.

Where are you from?

The web wouldn't be the web if it wasn't world wide, hence the “www.” The impact is that anyone from anywhere can access your site. So ...

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Web designers and Internet users look at the web in very different ways. The common mistake designers make is that they don't look at the web as a user would. Look at the chart below for an example.

Designers sometimes forget the users and begin to design web pages as if ...

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Content is one of the most important factors in a web design. Without content, you will have a very ineffective design.

The purpose of a design is to enable communication between the consumer and the content. Too often designers will design the site first and fit content in later. This is ...

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