MAMP is an amazingly useful tool which enables web developers to work off their local computers when working on a PHP website – without it they would need to upload their files to a testing server to run the PHP code, unlike WAMP – the version for windows MAMP does not have PHP errors turned on by default. This is the display_errors…
Google Analytics is a website tracking service that you can install for free on your website, this service when installed will monitor your visitors providing you with vital information on how many visitors your website is getting. The information collected is anonymous and you have no way of tracking down individual users however the data…
If you have a website or are in the process of starting a website development project you will probably of read or heard about keywords, especially when it comes to the websites SEO strategy but what are they and why are they important? Put simply keywords refer to the search terms people enter into Google…
This blog post is going to look at the uses of QR codes on websites, firstly what is a QR code? QR codes are small squares of smaller boxes that users can scan using their smart phones (iPhone, Blackberry and android for example), when they scan the QR code they are given some information –…
One of the hardest things to do when you run a blog or website is to think of new content to keep your website fresh and up to date, this blog post will look at ways of keeping updated with industry news to help find topics that you can blog about. The first step in…
This bit of code will look up your last tweet and display it on your website, it will save the tweet to a file called tweet.html so it avoids triggering twitters request limit (150 requests per hour) it works by looking at the time the file was last modified and if its under an hour…
Domain names are vital to how the web works and we use them each and every time we visit websites, but what are they and how do you choose one? To understand what a domain name is and why they are important we need to look at how the world wide web works, a simple…
With more and more users wanting to update the content of their websites themselves there has been an increase in the number of Content Management Systems (CMS) available for web developers to use, but with so many available which one should you use? In this post we will look over the top 3 freely available…
Wireframes have been around for years and chances are you have been creating them for all sorts of projects – not just web / website related ones. It is essentially a name given to the process of drawing out rough sketches of what the website will look like, so all of those pencil sketches you…
This post will look at what you can do to optimize your website for mobile visitors, mobile visitors are users who are accessing your website via a mobile device such as a tablet (iPad) or a mobile phone (iPhone). The number of users accessing the web via a mobile device has dramatically increased in recent…