If you think back to last week’s introductory post about loops in PHP, you’ll remember I gave you some pseudo-code that described a program to run a game of hangman. And then I left you hanging. (Yes, that pun was…

Have you ever played hangman? I used to, all the time. Especially when I was bored, and didn’t have a book to read or anything else to do. This was before the 24/7 connection of computers and iPhones, of course.…

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve talked about functions and variables in your PHP code. But that’s not nearly all that there is to PHP. After all, there’s more to functions than just passing variables around (we have to…

Last week we talked about what functions are in PHP, and I promised that this week I would explain more about what goes into a function and why on earth there are so many dollar signs in PHP code. So…

Last week I introduced you to the elePHPant, and showed you how to differentiate the PHP in your code from everything else. But that doesn’t actually tell you what’s happening between the PHP tags… which is kind of the entire…

There is an elePHPant in the room, and we really need to address it. No, seriously. Now, I don’t care who you are or what you say, but if you want a website that does more than just sit there…

Imagine this scenario: you’ve decided you want a website, and you set out to code it completely from scratch (It certainly is possible–I’ve done it in the past–but with the great themes available these days, why bother?). You know you…

If you look at the HTML code of any modern website, you’re likely to see a lot of <div> elements. A whole lot of <div> elements. A lot of coders use <div> elements to format the layout of their websites.…

For the last couple weeks we’ve been going through an introduction to how websites work by diving in head first (no pun intended) and looking at working code. While this does help you understand how your website works and how…

Last week, you got the general overview of the head section of your website, but we didn’t really discuss what goes on inside, in the brain of your website, if you will. But as complicated as it might sounds, today…

Before we can get to the body of your website – the stuff you actually see – we need to look at the head. “But why,” you ask, “do we give a darn about the head if we don’t actually…

There are many ways I could go about teaching you the technical side of websites. I could easily dumb everything way down and only tell you what you absolutely need to know to customize a WordPress theme. But I think……

Our recipe begins with a simple base of HTML. Throw a good dose of PHP into the mix, so it will rise as it should. JavaScript adds subtly complex notes to the flavor, and because you eat with your eyes…