Have you ever thought of an idea to do something with PHP, and wanted to test it out? You probably have to go through the trouble of writing your script, starting a server, and testing it in your browser.
Perhaps you love using PHP, and would like to do more than web development with it. You might like it as a more readable version of Perl.
Good design, CSS, and web standards?
Don't worry about that.
They are unnecessary extra steps that take up extra time, when you could be making terrible websites?
Ajax is an awesome technique, which allows for server-side stuff to be done without the user having to even refresh a page.
One common use for Ajax is contact forms. So today, we're going to create just that. Once you understand how to make a contact form, you can easily figure out how to use the same techniques to do just about anything.
A common way of emphasizing a small part of a page's content is by using pull quotes.
Pull quotes are short blocks of text, taken out of the main flow of content, to emphasize a point. They are usually styled in a way that will separate them from the main body text. Today I will show you how to style pull quotes, so that you can use them effectively.
In web development, organization is just as important as anything else. One way of being organized is by putting a web development toolkit, containing basic templates, copies of CMSes, and other tools, organized in a directory for quick access.
Here are some of the things that I keep in my web development toolkit.