Archive for February, 2006

IE 7 and Web Design – The shot heard around the world

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

I downloaded the new Microsoft Internet Exlorer 7.0 Beta 2 Preview. And overall I gotta say I like it. I like the tabs, I am getting used to where they moved the home page icon to, I like the new RSS ding, etc.
All this, despite the fact that when I first installed it [...]

What the heck is MySQL?

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

MySQL is an open source database that you can install and use for FREE on your computer OR more than likely it’s already installed on your web hosting company’s server. And you can access it through your web hosting company.
If you’re not familiar with what a database is, it’s just a way to save [...]

What the heck is PHP?

Monday, February 6th, 2006

PHP is a computer language used pretty extensively on the internet. It too is “open source” and stands for ‘Hypertext Preprocessor’. But it’s just known as PHP.
Typically .php pages are used when more advanced web pages than just HTML are needed. With php you can easily hook up with a database (like [...]