Defining Meta Tags is much easier than explaining how they are used, and by which engines. The reason is very few engines clearly lay out what they do and do not look at, and how much emphasis they put on any one factor. So, we’ll start with the easy part Meta Tags are lines of [...]

PHP & Templates

Much in the same way PHP can display dynamically generated content, PHP can change the whole look of your site. Through a template system and simple variable that sets a session containing the user’s preferred template, you can make your site customizable to your visitors. Many sites do this simple procedure to insure a large [...]

Recipe For A Good Looking Web Site

We’ve all surfed the web and seen some awful web sites. Sites that never completely loaded. Sites with too many photos. Sites with no easy way to find what you wanted. Another way a site looks bad is when each page looks different. You’re not even sure you’re at the same site. It doesn’t have [...]

Anatomy of a Website

Header The header has a simple job, to remind the user what site they are at. It normally contains the title of the site. If some one had a pet care site, their header might be an off-white background, with the title Pet Care printed in black along with a picture of a dog and [...]

Web Site Maintenance Made Easy

Anyone who has maintained a web site with many pages for an extended period of time knows the nightmare of having to edit a word or date that recurs on each page, such as copyright information. Having to edit every single page can be very time-consuming and tedious and often gets avoided for as long [...]

Web Site Maintenance Made Easy

Anyone who has maintained a web site with many pages for an extended period of time knows the nightmare of having to edit a word or date that recurs on each page, such as copyright information. Having to edit every single page can be very time-consuming and tedious and often gets avoided for as long [...]