An Introduction to CodeIgniter

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CodeIgniter is really one of my favourite web development frameworks for PHP. It's lightweight, fast, and very easy to quickly get something working in. It follows a model-view-controller (MVC) pattern, and comes with many helpful libraries to help you get started. If you want to try out your first framework, CodeIgniter is the one to start with.

The Case For Dofollow Links

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I recently came across an article by Nicholas Cardot of Site Sketch 101, about using Dofollow links versus using Nofollow links (Notice how that link was a Dofollow link).

I never imagined that there could be such a debate around the use of fourteen little characters. After all, those fourteen characters seem to be able to make a huge difference in terms of search engine optimization.

What's Your Favourite Web Development Framework?

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Web development frameworks are wonderful things. They can generally help to make web development much simpler, by providing easy-to-use tools for common tasks such as database access, templates and session management. Many of them also include features to generally speed up development, such as use of an MVC pattern, and more.

10 Tips to Make Your Blog Posts More Readable

When surfing the web for the information we want, our attention span is incredibly short. The reason for this is that we know if the site we’re on doesn’t instantly supply us with what we’re looking for, there are plenty of other sites a few clicks away that probably will.

Build Your Site With Dynamic CSS

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Changes to the style of the CSS of a website can be done very easily, with the magic of JavaScript. However, JavaScript can be disabled, so it should be avoided for important things.

The solution would be to use a server-side language, like PHP, to make it possible to create dynamic CSS files without having to resort to using JavaScript. Finally you can use dynamic CSS that works in all browser configurations.