Not So Popular WordPress Plugins One great aspect about using WordPress is the abundance of plugins that are available at your disposal. It seems there has been a plugin created for just about everything imaginable. Among the thousands and thousands, few arise and stand out from the crowd. A handful separate themselves from the rest …
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Free PHP Website Template
Get a Free PHP Web Design Template Here is a simple template that you can download for free. It is a normal web template except that it utilizes PHP script to call certain files. This is also known as a PHP Include. What the Heck is a PHP Include It is a simple line of …
Table vs CSS Layout
Table Layouts Compared to Div Tag Layouts // < ![CDATA[ google_ad_client = "ca-pub-1679933703428986"; /* PHP Template Link Ad */ google_ad_slot = "7816597089"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15; // ]]> One crucial decision in the layout of a web design must be answered before the first character of code is written. The decision to use …
HTML and CSS Cheat Sheet
HTML Cheat Sheet Plus Many More Today I came across a website that offers a variety of cheat sheets or reference cards if you will. Among them were an HTML Cheat Sheet and a CSS Cheat Sheet. The website is called Added Bytes and is ran by a guy from the UK named Dave Child …
HTML 101 – Part 4 – Div Tags
How to Use Div Tags for CSS Layout? In our last lesson, we went over how to create navigation menus using lists. Our design to this point seems kind of bland and boring so we are going to cover some basic CSS styles so we can style our page and make it look more like …
HTML 101 – Part 3 – Navigation List
Navigation Menus with List Styles This is our 3rd installment for our HTML 101 series. Today we will be adding the navigation menu for our website. We will accomplish this by creating a list menu. We will also create a placeholder page to link to from the navigation menu. Let’s get started.
Create an XML Sitemap for Your Website
What is a Sitemap? Before we jump straight into creating a sitemap let’s just briefly review what a sitemap is. Sitemaps are basically a map of your site. It defines the URL structure and helps search engines know what is contained in your site so search engines can find those pages.
9 Free Tools That All Web Designers Should Have
Every web designer needs a good tool palette consisting of the essential tools to assist him or her in creating a great web design. If those tools are free, then even better. Here is a list of 9 essential and free tools that every web designer should have in their tool box. 1) Firebug Firebug …
How to Attach an External CSS Style Sheet
Why You Should Link to an External CSS Stylesheet If you incorporate all of your CSS into your HTML, your web design it becomes bloated which causes the files size to increase, which causes your page to load slower, which causes people to leave your website in a mad fit to opt for a faster …
HTML 101 for Beginners – Part 2 – Links and Images
HTML 101 – Links and Images Welcome back to lesson 2 in the continuing series of HTML 101 for Beginners. This lesson will be on inserting links and images into your web page. In HTML 101 for Beginners Part 1, we talked about the basic HTML tags so now it is time to move on …
