The History of PHP

Resums Lerdorf – software engineer, Apache team member, and international man of mystery – is the creater and original driving force behind PHP. The first part of PHP was developed for his personal use in late 1994. This was a CGI wrapper that helped him keep track of people who looked at his personal site.

PHP was being used on approximately 94,000 sites worldwide. It was clearly becoming too big for any single person to handle, even someone as focused and energetic as resume.

HTML Basics Paragraph Tag ?

Inserting the <> tag at the beginning of your paragraph will drop the text down two lines. (If you insert the <> tag, it will drop your text down one line.)

Using this tag places a blank line above and below the text of the paragraph.

The <> tag defines a paragraph.

HTML Code:

<>Paragraph Tag...< /p >

HTML Table Basics?

The

tag begins the table, you place what you want inside, and end the table with the tag.

Building tables in HTML may at first look difficult but if you keep cool and watch your step, it is actually strictly logical - just like everything else in HTML.

Example 1:

<>
 
  <>Cell 1< /td >
  <>Cell 2< /td >

<>
<>Cell 3< /td>
 <>Cell 4< /td>
 < /tr>
< /table>

How to placing an Image on your Web page.

Place an image is constant. You will apply the same format every time.

Images you are going to use in a subdirectory called "images". That means place the image in a directory (to be called "images") under the directory where your web pages are located (which would be the "root" directory for your site).

Example:
< src= "imagename.gif" alt="some content" width="52" height="42">

Beginning PHP Programming

Introduction to Development Using a Hypertext Preprocessor Language.

Initially, PHP was designed for creating dynamic web pages. This name has since been updated to PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, in recognition of a much wider target developer audience than originally planned.

Indeed, PHP programming now includes many capabilities and platforms, largely thanks to an active developer base offering many free extensions and modules for download under the PHP.

However, it is inevitable that various individuals have built localized, specialized, or just platform-dependent versions. This provides to increase the reach, and helps reach the popularity of PHP as a programming language in its own right.

PHP used for?

PHP can be used to write programs almost any platform or technology. However, the most widely supported uses are for creating:

• Dynamic Web Pages
• Command Line applications
• Client side GUI applications

PHP is only really capable of servicing the first of these. In conjunction with a suitable web server, or web host providing access to server side scripting, PHP can be used immediately to create a dynamic aspect to web pages.

PHP can be used as a client side programming language, too. Most of the commonly available binaries support local programming as well as server side development, making web development easier for those working with a remotely hosted web service.

Where I can PHP be downloaded?

The official source of the PHP language, www.php.net, has builds for Windows and the total source code for Linux users. The Unix/Linux source code must be used to build the official PHP implementation, binaries are only provided for Windows. However, third parties have created platform-specific 'official' versions, recognized by The PHP Group for:

• Mac OS
• Novell Netware
• OS/2
• Solaris platforms
• Various others

These are all accessible from the PHP site (www.php.net). Most good web hosts will also provide access to the most recent PHP version.

PHP Language structure?

For those who just want to be able to understand the various templates in CMS such as Drupal, Joomla, and so on, it is worth noting that PHP code will usually be included in an HTML document like so:

Example One

This is then interpreted by the web server before the page is rendered as HTML for delivery to the client browser. The most common way to output text is with the echo command: text can be plain or HTML; it is the end-user client browser that will understand it.

The style of the language is similar to C, in that the syntax for decision making, looping, and so forth are almost identical to C. PHP does, however, provide its own, and these are completely well-documented.

Avoid Few Spamming Sins

Avoid Few Spamming Sins Don’t use the following tactics :

1. Doorway pages
Also called gateway pages, entry pages, bridge pages, hallway bridges, doorway pages are created for spiders, not visitors.

2. Meta refresh tags and redirects
A meta refresh tag, which is placed inside the HTML code of a Web Page,

can be used to redirect Visitor automatically from one page to another without requiring them to click a link. Sometimes, a redirect is necessary. You’ll want people who find your old URLs to be automatically redirected to your new URLs. But unfortunately, because spammers often optimize a page for high-traffic keywords and then use the meta refresh tag to send people to a completely irrelevant Web page, your site could be unfairly penalized if you use a meta refresh tag this way.

3. Duplicate content
Putting the same, or even similar, content on different domain names is considered to be duplicate content. The search engines don’t want sites with the same content polluting their natural results. A previous client of mine tried this, even though I told him not to. Really, his primary domain was not penalized, but none of his duplicate pages were indexed, even though the spiders did come check them out.

4. Information pages
Because surfers and spiders value content, a domain name used as a single information page doesn’t provide value. Don’t take the dozens of domains you bought, post one page of content on each of them, optimize each for a keyword, and then link them all back to your Web site. Spiders will smell spam.

5. Hidden text
Avoid hidden text on your web page.

What Is Search Engine Marketing?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There is a lot involved with search engine marketing. In fact, it can be a bit overwhelming, even for those with a great deal of experience.

SEO falls into online public relations because many consumers see search engines as editorial gatekeepers, displaying “the best” matches for their searches.

We know that we can influence those rankings, and we do so, in every way possible. While most people consider SEO to be PR, payper- click is definitely thought of as online advertising, You can improve your Web page rankings in the organic search results (also called natural search results). Here’s how it works. The search engines send out spiders (also called crawlers) to scour the Web and collect Web pages for the search engines’ databases. Spiders build up a search engine’s library of Web pages, so to speak. Many search engines such as Ask.com, Google, MSN Search, and Yahoo! display both paid and organic results on the same page.

Search engine marketing can provide an effective method of driving highly targeted visitors to your web site.

The following is a simple guide to search engine marketing. Although it is meant for beginners, it can also be very useful for more advanced search engine marketers as a reference source. Each section provides a brief overview of the basics followed by resources for further study.

Take it one step at a time and you'll soon understand the basics of search engine marketing...

Keywords & Search Terms
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Submission
Link Popularity
Pay Per Click Search Engines
Log File and Traffic Analysis

Creating returning visitors

Creating visitor reliability is that those who frequently visit your site most likely tell their friends, Even if this visits are all taking place in Cyberspace, never underestimate the power of down to earth mouth to mouth advertisement. High quality content and continuously updating is to do, to retain the interest of your visitors. An update once or twice a month is the very minimum that must be met. When we built a commercial site for a client we always keep the space for a "What's New" page in mind even if we cannot convince the client in the first phase how important this really is, he/she will realize the necessity when he/she views the stats after the launch.

Link Building

Google very much bases the ranking on how important your web site is, on how many links from other web sites are pointing to your site. So from this perspective seen, link building is one of the most common and most effective forms of web site promotion but should be left to the professional. Even inferior your own ranking can drop if you link to a site which is banned and you do not know about it or which has a bad ranking and not an excellent content and topic to compensate this lack through the promise of future visitors.

Getting top Rankings.

We are aware of many details that are important in getting top rankings.

Doing the following steps :

• Maximum number of characters that should be used in the Keyword Meta Tag
• Consequence of placing the page's Title just below the "
  " statement vs. the bottom and just above "" statement?
• Which search engine bases a majority of its ranking on popularity?
• Listed on Yahoo or LookSmart, AOL, Google.
• Avoid to create websites that use frames
• Top search engines or directories used by people.
• A listing on directory also gets that page listed on MSN, Google, Overture. Yahoo. ASK.
  

Best Website Development Tips

High Rankings and increase web traffic to your site by doing the following steps
Research what keywords people use most often on search engines that pertain to your products or services; use these keywords as text in the design to increase website traffic.

Keep It Simple -

• Many web designers use too many graphical images and programs like Java, Flash, etc. which results in lower rankings and less traffic..
• Web pages, like a spread sheet, are made using cells and tables. Use as few cells and tables in your web design as possible.
• Create good Meta Tags. Each page should have different keywords in the Title and the Description Meta Tag.
• Limit the number of times that you repeat words in your Keyword Meta Tag.
• Place your important keywords at the top of the page as text headers.
• Frames based websites should only be used for Intranet (a site only for company employees) and not for Internet.
• Limit your use of services that automatically submits your URL to the top 10 search engines.
• When completed with a page, run a spell checking and then compress the html code.
• Keep track of your search engine rankings and website traffic.
• Once a website is indexed, a good web designer should go back and improve pages that didn't get high rankings on key words.
• Every 3 months you should make a small change on each web page. Search engines like to see that changes are being made to a site and that it just isn't sitting there for years with no upgrades.

Basic HTML: Introduction

Introduce you to the very basics of HyperText Mark-up Language(HTML). I advise you take the primer one at a time over 10 days. By the end of the week, you'll simply know enough to make your own HTML home page.

HTML?
Hyper is the opposite of linear. It used to be that computer programs had to move in a linear fashion. This before this, this before this, and so on. HTML does not hold to that pattern and allows the person viewing the World Wide Web page to go anywhere, any time they want.

Text is what you will use. Real, honest to goodness English letters.

Mark up is what you will do. You will write in plain English and then mark up what you wrote.

Language because they needed something that started with "L" to finish HTML and Hypertext Markup Louie didn't flow correctly. Because it's a language, really -- but the language is plain English.

Welcome to our Blog.

Hello and thank you for visiting My Blog.

My name is Raji.

I have been working online full-time since 2000 and developed this blog site to assist you in developing a successful Internet presence.

Whether you're looking for information to assist you in designing a professional ecommerce web site or simply want to learn how to market and promote your site, you will find a wealth of quality.

After you finish reviewing this page and all of the valuable information, I wrote to assist you in just about every aspect of web site design and development.

Once you have a basic understanding of how to develop a professional web site, you can find a wide range of Web Design Tips, HTML codes and JavaScript.

Website Design Principles

Many webmasters wish they could design great looking sites, but simply can’t. They’ve given it a few attempts, but either due to lack of application knowledge (with apps like photoshop), or lack of “artistic talent”, they give up. And that’s fine, because it keeps the market for design healthy! no, it really doesn’t have to be like that. If you’re an aspiring designer, there are a few key principles that I want to outline first. They are what helped me through my path to becoming a good designer, and they should help you too if you follow them.

Usability is all about creation the visitors knowledge a good one on your site. Things should be easy to read, easy to access and most importantly, easy to understand. When a visitor visits your site, they should know exactly what your site is about within the first couple seconds. This is obviously where design and layout come into play. You need to avoid cluttering your site in the physical sense

Do's and Dont's
One of the really big fads that was prevalent in the early part of this decade, was the use of small fonts. I was one of those idiots because I thought it “looked” cool. But for all practical purposes, I always scorn people for using size 10px or less for fonts. Never go below 11px font - and even 11px should only be used sparingly. Size 14px (which is what this is) seems most ideal for paragraph’s of text

Colors and Contrast
The color theme of a site is obviously important. A lot of aspiring designers have a tenancy to use too many colors, simply because they’re there. But I like using no more than 2 primary colors and a third “secondary” color that I will use carefully throughout the design. A simple color theme is easier on the eyes, easier to “comprehend” and overall just looks better

Contrast is hugely important. It’s very important that your content and navigation are correctly contrasted. The foreground text needs to either be very dark, or very light in comparison with the background color.

Design around the purpose of the site

Really make an impressive and effective site, you need to fully understand what the purpose of the site is, and what the goals are. The design should cater most effectively to the purpose.

The Web Design Learning Process

The Internet has opened a whole New World of opportunity for all of us. With the vast amount of information available at your fingertips, it has never been easier to communicate your message to the world.

A web site will enable you to create your own home on the World Wide Web. Your home may be as simple or dynamic as you'd like and is only limited by your imagination.

Although designing a great web site is an important part of developing a successful online business, it is only one small part of an overall plan.

Prior to designing your web site, here are some questions to assist you in developing your strategy:

Who is your target audience?
What is your most wanted response?
What products and/or services will you offer?
Will you sell affiliate products and/or services?
What type of design will you use?
Will you design your site or hire a professional?
How will your site be navigated?
How will your site be optimized?
What type of graphics will your site use?
Where will you obtain your graphics?
What graphic formats will you use?
What fonts will you use?
How will you design your site for different screen sizes?
How will you design your site for different web browsers?
How will you optimize your pages for the Search Engines?
How will you make your web pages load quickly?
What type of content will your site offer?
Where will the content come from?
How will you gain your visitors' trust?
How will you build your credibility?
Will you write your own sales copy or hire a copywriter?
How will you accept payment through your site?
How will you process your orders?
How will you deliver your products or services?
How will you collect your customers' information and store it within a database?
How will you automate portions of your business?
Where will you find the scripts you need?
What types of scripts will you use? CGI, JavaScript?
Will you need to hire a professional to write your scripts?
Will you edit and install your own scripts or hire a professional?
What kind of computer software will you need?
Where will you find the software?
How will you decide on a domain name?
How will you register a domain name?
How will you host your web site?
How will you upload your files to your server?
Should your files be uploaded in binary or ASCII mode?
What should you look for in a quality web host?
Will you publish an ezine?
How will you collect email addresses?
How will you send out mailings?
How will you drive traffic to your web site?
How will you advertise your products and services?
How will you test your advertising?
Will you offer an affiliate program?
How will you run your affiliate program?
How will you market and promote your web site, products and/or services?

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