As you’ve probably heard, social media (SM) is the newest rage in this Web 2.0 world. While the Web has long been more related to newspapers than conferences, countless social network services have revolutionized it. The Internet has moved from a broadcast medium to a social, community-driven one. Control of website content has largely been…
Yesterday I discussed the limited options for efficient menu-editing available to beginning Web programmers. As promised, here’s a tutorial for writing your very own PHP includes, a boon to menu-making code monkeys. If you haven’t already, please check out my mini PHP crash course before continuing. Using the include() statement (and it’s partner require() )…
When I was first starting out in Web design, I quickly learned that updating your site’s menus can become a major chore rather quickly. Since I liked to hard-code everything, I only knew a couple main options, neither of which were great: Update every page manually: This works out for a while, but when you…
You’ve studied PHP for a bit and have written a handful of pages. (If you haven’t, check out my mini PHP crash course.) Now you’re getting tired of the constant edit, upload, view cycle of PHP editing using a Web server. What to do? Enter WampServer. This handy app can be installed with ease onto…
If you’re a Web coding geek like me, you’ve probably mastered (X)HTML, used some CSS and JavaScript — and you’re looking for the next step up. You may have realized that PHP programming is an important language to learn. (Note: If this alphabet soup is Greek to you, go back to (X)HTML 101 before continuing.) Instead…
If you’re doing business in a small town, you may wonder why you should bother setting up a website at all. You’re too far away from the big city for crowds of people to come to you. What’s the use? Even aside from planning to move your business to a metropolis or selling your current…
In The E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber summarized the three phases of any business: Infancy, Adolescence, and Maturity. Here’s the gist of each: Infancy: The business-owner is the business. Every aspect of the company is ran by its founder, including production work, marketing, business planning, and everything else. If the owner isn’t there, the business doesn’t exist. Adolescence:…
Those of you who aren’t natural aesthetes/Ponytails will be wondering if this subject could apply to you. There’s no beauty in pursuits such as programming and business development, is there? Au contraire! I take a broad view of the term. Yes, of course an artist will see beauty in an elegant design, a pleasing color…
Question: What is Volvo’s favorite hobby? Do Rally’s restaurants like country music? What should you get the Nvidia company for their birthday? The fact is, businesses never actually connect with people — other people do. Socializing Employees WTHI News 10, a local TV station, uses Twitter through both a corporate news-headline account and reporter accounts…
Since this website is all about inspiration, I thought it’d be a good idea to tell you some of mine. My overarching Inspiration in life — at least the one I aspire toward — is that of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Without Him, life is meaningless. “What good will it be for a…