It's always great to look around at the work of fellow web designers and web developers. It is even more fun to discover the other side of them as well.
Dave Berzack is a web designer/developer in the Atlanta, GA area. In exchange for the professionally produced video, Dave designed and built the website for a photographer named Scott McKibben. You can view the site he built here : Scott McKibben Website.
Now, take a look at the video by Dave Berzack. Not only does it look like it was a… read more
My newest business venture, Fat Free Interactive (a Boston based web design and development company) is currently in production. I've Made some major strides in it's implementation into Expression Engine v2.1. I'm posting a few screen shots to give you an idea of how it's going. Please leave a comment below and let me know what you like and dislike about the design so far.
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There are some instances where you may need to get your absolute server path to get your website to work. I've come across this need many times, including for CMS directory path definitions and .htaccess directory definitions.
If your site is coded using PHP, you can find the server path with PHP of any page on your site by placing the following code at the top of the page :
<?php echo $file=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>
This bit of code will spit out something like this ; /www/sites/sitename, where "www" is… read more
There are many days when coding can take a tole on you. Then there are those days when a co-worker turns 35 and a man in a gorilla suit shows up and starts singing and dancing around.
read moreThis article will not make much sense to anyone unless they are Aptana users. If you are ... read on.
Aptana is fairly new to me as a web development tool (I've quite used to Dreamweaver - which is both a good and a bad thing). Aside from Aptana being a free and open source web development tool, it has a vast number of development plugins and a fairly easy to use interface. There are some things about it I like (such as it's excellent code coloring techniques and PHP development support - PHP is a newer language… read more
All that can be said about this quick Adobe CS5 Production Premium video is "really cool!". For those of us who will dive into CS5 in the near future, I think we're all going to be pleased. Lot's of new stuff to learn!
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This video tutorial is all about learning how to install XAMPP (web development server) and Expression Engine 1.6.8 on your computer in order to help save time during the development of your websites.
Some key points to note are :
- Download XAMPP for free here : http://www.apachefriends.org
- Download Expression Engine 1.6.8 for free here : http://www.expressionengine.com/
If you all have any questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment or contact me. Feedback is… read more