What A Web Developer Is-And Isn’t
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the world today about what it is that web developers are and do. Are they designers? Programmers? Marketers? Business owners? While being a little of all of these is important in the world today, that’s not what web developers really are. I’m constantly getting requests for...
Read more…PHP Programming with NetBeans
If you feel like you have outgrown your current text editor or are wanting to try out a new IDE, I’d like to recommend NetBeans. After using TextPad for a few years, we realized that the codebase of our main project became too complicated and too extensive for it. We felt like our programmers were...
Read more…How To Add BuddyPress Avatars To WordPress MU
Not many people know what BuddyPress is ( I sure didn’t), so let me start off by pulling a quote from their own site: “BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.”...
Read more…Review of Digging into WordPress…and Giveaway too!
I’m just going to go ahead and say it in the first sentence – Digging into WordPress was the best computer book I’ve ever read. Period. Digging into WordPress was written by Chris Coyier, of css-tricks.com and Jeff Starr. The book is 375 pages of WordPress tricks, customizations and theming. It’s a great book for...
Read more…Thoughts on Using Coda For Development
I’ve been trying to get away from using Dreamweaver as my development software for several reasons. Mainly because the software is bloated, slow and expensive. Partly because there’s a lot of misunderstanding about the program, and people tend to automatically think you use the design view, or WYSIWYG part of Dreamweaver and that’s bad for...
Read more…How To Create A Dynamic Portfolio in WordPress Using Categories
There are plenty of portfolio themes for sale out there, but many just don’t have “it” as far as the certain design element you’re looking for in your portfolio. Sometimes it’s just better to design one yourself. But what if you want to put it in WordPress and make your portfolio a little easier to...
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