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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 [...]

Fifty and Redundant - in a Recession

Liz Jamieson — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:34:24 +0000

Two People at Fifty A couple of people that I know recently took voluntary redundancy at the age of fifty. One is a good friend, Jane, who’d worked as a company director for many years. She had a highly paid job that demanded blood, sweat, tears and practically all of her time. Jane handled projects with budgets [...]

Ideas for An Architect’s Website

Liz Jamieson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:00:40 +0000

Some friends of mine are architects, and they’ve written their own web site. They’re also currently designing extensions to my home and I am impressed by their attention to detail and infinite patience with us and the project. It’s not been easy. They put together a good web site but I wondered if there were some other [...]

My Thoughts on Adwords

Liz Jamieson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:53:47 +0000

Adwords is not something I particulary like using. I mean the price you have to pay per click for popular terms is just too high, so you end up looking for the more unusual, long tail terms, which is theory should enjoy a better success rate (you can tailor your landing page to the exact search [...]

Web Designers Are Everywhere

Liz Jamieson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:07:25 +0000

Every man and his dog can be a web designer. I just tried to buy some solid fuel, and in Google I clicked on a paid link that suggested it would lead to a site where you could buy coal online. Great I thought. I noticed (as you do), that the same site was not represented [...]