If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Would you like to find new web 2.0 style domain names really easily? If you’d like a name like Google, or perhaps Squidoo. Here’s a web site that locates domains based on your selection cirteria and then tells you which ones are still available. If you’d like to find a weird word that no-ones uses, but that you can pronounce to uses as your domain name, this is a great tool. How To Do I... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I bought my hard-drive on Amazon about a year ago, and today my friend Gill asked me if it was any good. I said “yes- it’s great”, so she went off and bought one. My hard drive is a Toughdrive, and it’s been good for me. Mine is 250GB, but they do a 320GB one now. It has a friendly blue light to keep you company at night, when working into the small hours, and being a toughdrive, y... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Making Your Blog Look Exactly Like Your Web Site Sometimes when developing a new web site, I want to create a Wordpress blog to go with it. I find this a bit challenging and usually don’t even bother to try and make them match up visually. I am no graphic designer, and I have enough going on without having to add Wordpress Theme Designer to my skill set. I am sure many of you are the same. The ultimate... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Making Your Blog Look Exactly Like Your Web Site Sometimes when developing a new web site, I want to create a Wordpress blog to go with it. I find this a bit challenging and usually don’t even bother to try and make them match up visually. I am no graphic designer, and I have enough going on without having to add Wordpress Theme Designer to my skill set. I am sure many of you are the same. The ultimate... Read Full Story

I’d like to thank Noah Botimer for his interest and assistance. I’ve now changed the way I’ve constructed my fledgling web application. This code replaces the code shown in Getting Started With CodeIgniter 5. Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One Controller Per View in CodeIgniter So how do you break a website into views and controllers exactly? If you read the CodeIgniter forums people have devised lots of different ways of tackling the controller problem. For me, taking the project I am currently working on, I find it easy enough to think in terms of objects for the tours, the shopping cart, a customer and so on. But the static web pages - the... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!For The Artistically Challenged Not being a graphic designer but trying to be a one man band web developer used to be limiting.  Today there are lots of tools to help plug any lack of artistic ability. Of course you’ll never be as convincing as a good graphic designer,  but you’ll get by. Look Around the Web For a Site That Fits I am in the middle of a new web development project for a long standin... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!For The Artistically Challenged Not being a graphic designer but trying to be a one man band web developer used to be limiting.  Today there are lots of tools to help plug any lack of artistic ability. Of course you’ll never be as convincing as a good graphic designer,  but you’ll get by. Look Around the Web For a Site That Fits I am in the middle of a new web development project for a long standin... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Constructing the Home Page This is what my home page looks like now.  A Note About Graphics and Design I’ll step you through how I did this using CodeIgniter. By the way, I did all the graphic elements myself or with the use of graphics tools. I am not a graphic designer so I fumble my way around the design of a site. I get hold of any easy to use graphics tools that are available. I’ll do anoth... Read Full Story

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Model - View - Controller CodeIgniter implements the MVC (model - view - controller) design pattern. Writing web pages in this way can help to separate how the pages looks, from its data and also from its flow of control. Views When you write a web page in CodeIgniter you are encouraged to place all the visible stuff - the way the page looks, into a view page. Models Next you do your best to place all the data... Read Full Story