If you have ever wanted to learn the basics of creating web pages, you have come to the right place. Even if you are new to computers or not too familiar with them, you can learn some basic webpage fundamentals here!
PHP contact form to email account
January 20th, 2010Posted in PHP
In this tutorial we will learn how to use a basic HTML form with a PHP script. We will be working on a simple contact form that can be used on your website.
First PHP Script
November 11th, 2009Posted in PHP
PHP is a server side scripting language. PHP will allow you to accept input from HTML forms. Actually, that's just the tip of the iceberg. You can do a lot of things with PHP. A few possibilities are: creating a rotating banner, making calculations, adding and extracting data to a database. Again, these are just a few really small examples of what you can do. learn more...
First Perl Script
September 25th, 2009Posted in Perl
In this tutorial, we will be introduced to a scripting language called Perl. Perl is a Server-Side scripting language; meaning that the script will run off of a server.
Using FTP Software
August 18th, 2009Posted in Web Hosting
So you have purchased your domain name from your favorite registrar and you are ready for your website to go live. You have setup an account with a host server (If you don't have a host server yet, here is a list of web hosts recommended by WordPress). The only thing left is to upload your files to your server with FTP software.
CSS Backgrounds
August 2nd, 2009Posted in CSS
In this tutorial we'll go over some of the CSS features that can be used with background images.
CSS Hyperlinks
July 8th, 2009Posted in CSS
CSS technology gives us the creative power over how we want our links displayed. We no longer have to settle for the generic blue underlined links of the past. We can have a link with a yellow background that is green and bold. The link can be a background image. There are a lot of possibilities here.
CSS Classes, IDs, and Inline Styles
June 16th, 2009Posted in CSS
There are three ways that you can use CSS technology in your web page. The style class, the style id, and inline styles can all be used simultaneously on the same web page. learn more...
Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
May 18th, 2009Posted in CSS
In the past, webmasters had to declare the presentational attributes of each HTML element respectively. For example if you had an <h1> tag and wanted its font size to be 15 pixels, you would have to specify the font size for the that particular <h1> tag. That sounds easy, right. Now imagine that you have 2000 <h1> tags throughout your site, and you have decided that you want to change the font size on all of them to 13 pixels. This would more than likely be a nightmare to accomplish. This is where CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) comes into play. learn more...
Doctypes And Validation
May 10th, 2009Posted in CSS, HTML
In the previous tutorial we discussed the significance of browser compatibility. Our goal is to have our website display the same in as many web browsers as possible. One of the steps to achieve this goal is to validate your website. learn more...
Browser Compatibility
May 4th, 2009Posted in CSS, HTML
If you have been following the previous tutorials, you should have a basic foundation of how HTML elements work. Before we get into advanced HTML features, now is a good time to explain browser compatibility or cross-browser issues. learn more...
