Wow, I’m pretty happy about this. I’ve been using HostGator for a while now, and I love them. They are one of the very best hosting companies I’ve ever used. And now I find out that they’ve gone green! Woot! That’s just an added bonus that lets me sleep just a little... 

At some point, people who have some knowledge of HTML and/or CSS eventually need to do more, and usually they start wondering if they should learn PHP. Most, in fact, have already played around with it a little because they’ve made some minor adjustments to existing PHP code in WordPress, forum... 

Yesterday, I showed you how I chop up a free CSS template into pieces so that site-wide elements can be automatically included via PHP. That’s the first step I usually take when customizing a template, but it’s definitely not the last step. Today I’m going to show you the next step... 

  I thought I’d share my normal procedure for starting a new web site, using a free CSS template, chopping it up into separate PHP parts, editing bits, and putting it all back together again. Unless you are a web designer by trade, or have one that works for you, you may not be comfortable... 

Web 2.0 is all about the conversation, and much of that conversation comes from letting visitors comment on your site’s articles and pages. But much of that technology has been so far reserved for blogs or sites that have been programmed to allow comments. What about your lonely little static... 

Call it what you will… text editor, html editor, source editor, code editor, programming editor, php editor, web development environment, IDE, project authoring environment, editor with syntax highlighting, scripting environment… there are editors galore to create, manage, and edit text and... 

Social networking can be many things, sometimes informative, sometimes fun, and sometimes a marketing tool. But when a social network is truly useful is when it goes beyond all the other Digg clones out there, and that’s what DZone does. Sure, DZone has the usual Digg-like qualities, and that’s...