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How To Generate New Web 2.0 Domain Names

Liz Jamieson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:59:11 +0000

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 [...]

Freecom External Drive – A Recommendation

Liz Jamieson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:55:44 +0000

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 [...]

A Quick Fix for an Every Day Problem – $99

Liz Jamieson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:50:40 +0000

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 [...]

Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 6

Liz Jamieson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:00:34 +0000

Extending The Controller Class for Common Code 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. Because I wanted to have a certain amount of common code in all controllers [...]

Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 5

Liz Jamieson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:08:14 +0000

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 [...]

How To Cheat At Web Page Design (and almost get away with it)

Liz Jamieson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:39:19 +0000

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 [...]

Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 4

Liz Jamieson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:54:02 +0000

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 [...]

Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 3

Liz Jamieson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:04:02 +0000

Model – View – Controller CodeIgniter implements the MVC (model – view – controller) design pattern. Writing web pages this way can help to separate how a page 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 – [...]

Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 2

Liz Jamieson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:22:03 +0000

Getting The Environment Set Up Last time, we installed the software and altered the config.php file by adding two lines (one commented out). Please review Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 1 for details. If you now visit the home page running locally on your PC, you should see this. Obviously you must substitute your root directory where [...]

Getting Started With CodeIgniter – 1

Liz Jamieson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:48:22 +0000

Installing CodeIgniter – a PHP Framework – On Your PC First, be aware, I am not a CodeIgniter expert. I am a relatively new user and am just trying to find my way around it. This series of posts is to give you a blow by blow account of how I am putting a CodeIgniter web [...]