archive for: August, 2008

Blogging for Fun and Profit

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:46 am under Blogging

Blogs are cool, I admit it. I’m a web designer and I design and make websites for a living so you might think I wouldn’t like an application that enables someone with little to no technical skills to make a website that includes a CMS (Content Management System) out of the box. Quite the contrary. [...]

Google Responsible for New Breed of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:44 am under Search Engine Optimization

Top listings at Google are the subject, cause and effect of the new bread of obsessive compulsive disorders. Fortunes made and lost over a single word. I remember back when you could just type a word seven hundred times on a page and watch it jump up three pages at Google overnight (not that I [...]

Dynamically Display Images From a Directory

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:41 am under PHP

Here is a nifty PHP script I use on occasion. It reads a specified directory that you have populated with images, in this case .gif images then spits them out onto a nice 4 column table. I used this for a page that displays customer logos. To add a new logo all the client has [...]

Web Designer vs. Web Developer

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:40 am under Website Design

For a time I was rather concerned about the semantics of the terms; who does what? Which one makes more money and what the heck do I call myself? There is the school of thought where a web designer is the person who makes web sites and a web developer is one who does… other [...]

How To Make a Vertically Centered Web Page

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:34 am under How To Make a Website

This took me WAAAAY too long to figure out. I can’t remember where I found this solution so I apologize for not listing any credit here. The below code shows how to center a site vertically using a floated shim.

How To Make a Contact Form

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 1:33 am under How To Make a Website

The contact form I show you below uses five different pieces to accomplish it’s goal. There are a hundred other ways to do this but, I think making it with five pieces will demonstrate the process and the different technologies used a little better.