Web development blog with Mark

PHP MVC and Frameworks for Novices

mark — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:38:26 +0000

I thought it was about time that I wrote another post and after a lot of the projects I have been working on lately I thought why not write about some MVC/Frameworks related stuff. I have plans to write some how-to and provide sample sites including code, built in my current favourite, the Zend Framwork. This post however [...]

Increasing Website Income

mark — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:22:26 +0000

When you start to monetize your website you will normally start out with the most basic or easiest provider that you can find, more often than not its Google AdSense. Now that is not a bad thing as you can make some really good money off AdSense, but a lot of people that get signed up with [...]

Boost your PageRank

mark — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:52:07 +0000

People often ask me how to boost traffic to their site from the search engines, more specifically from Google. Using keywords alone is not enough as 9.9 times out of 10 someone with a higher PageRank will get a better ranking in Search Engine Results Page (SERP) than you for that same keyword. There are [...]

User Interface animations made easy with Scriptaculous

mark — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:07:25 +0000

Yesterday while at work I was building some functionality into the user interface using show and hide with div’s when a workmate pointed out the Scriptaculous library. Now this little thing is amazing, by making something like the onClick action point to one of Scriptaculous’s effect functions I can have cool slide downs or [...]

Nagios - Protecting your web-based assets

mark — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:06:04 +0000

I have been really busy lately with new work so I haven’t posted for a while but heres an update in the form on some useful information that may save your butt further down the line. If you are a developer like me then chances are you have at least a few websites that you maintain [...]

latest design

mark — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:12:16 +0000

Here is the final concept for a new project we are launching called School of Interpretation. The aim is to provide a site where people can express ideas and thoughts about the interpretation of designs with the goal of having other people learning from what is being said and designed. Share This

Our site went down, pick your hosting company carefully!

mark — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:18:11 +0000

Over the past couple days the whole virtual server had gone down. The main result of the site going down is damage to reputation, and loss of subscribers and also the loss of services related to the server that we had running which was also running some client websites. If the web hosting company had of implemented [...]

New design

mark — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:13:20 +0000

If you are not new to this blog then you will probably have noticed the new design, throughout the rest of the week we will be updating the rest of the site and creating an articles section. I hope you like the new design, any thoughts? Share This

Stereo-typing Web 2.0

mark — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:42:19 +0000

When I first heard the phrase Web 2.0, a spark of excitement when off and after some mild research I started to see the possibilities. There is a fairly hefty amount of confusion around what Web 2.0 really is, some think its about Ajax, some think its about separation of presentation from content (allowing for [...]

Staying on track

mark — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:09:31 +0000

Over on A List Apart writer Kevin Cornell recently wrote some good guidelines for being able to keep yourself motivated so that you can keep yourself at your best and be on the top of your game. Cornell split these up into two sections, one to follow when getting started and the second to use once your in swing. When starting out, setting out [...]

Adobe Labs - AIR & Flex 3

mark — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:44:55 +0000

Earlier today I was browsing through Adobe Lab’s website to catch up with whats been going on there, and one of the main headlines in the development side of things is the transformation of Apollo into AIR, and although it looks good, it just looks like Java because you will need a virtual enviroment to run the application but the twist is that you have the ability [...]

Google Health - A new Google service

mark — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:32:05 +0000

Google Health, codename “Weaver” is planned as a new health information storage program provided by Google. Adam Bosworth (Google’s Vice President of Engineering) lobbies for the program for quite a while now. Adam has said that the current US health care system is challenged when it comes to “supporting caregivers and communicating between different medical organizations … [...]

Top PHP Packages

mark — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:08:41 +0000

Here is my list of what I consider some of the best PHP packages in the wild. phpBB - Forum software - www.phpbb.org adodb lite - Simple database abstraction layer - www.adodblite.sourceforge.net PHPProjekt - A really good project management system - www.phprojekt.com Flyspray - A great bug tracker, simple and easy to implement - www.flyspray.org phpBMS - A comprehensive Business Management [...]

Another mock logo - krotoski

mark — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:48:36 +0000

DRICORE Concept Logo

mark — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:41:00 +0000

Here is a result of some recent messing around in photoshop Share This