How to Customize the WordPress Admin Area
WordPress is one of the best CMSs out there — if not the best (but of course, I’m biased because I’m a WordPress fanatic). It has loads of handy features that make site administration a breeze. WordPress is a publishing platform with a comment system, a GUI for creating, editing and managing posts and pages, handy built-in tools like the "Export" feature to back up your content, user roles and permissions, and more.
Giveaway: Win PHP Link Directory Licenses
PHP Link Directory (also known as phpLD), the most widely used directory script on the internet with over 100,000 websites that use it, has teamed up with Six Revisions to give away 3 licenses to their newly released version, phpLD 4.1 — an offering worth $80 each. Read on to learn how you can be one of the lucky winners.
The Perfect Web Designer Should Not Exist
The web design community is both strong and deep. We support each other and quickly find out that everyone is encouraged to both grow with, and contribute to, the community.
Certain individuals within our community will stand out as experts and will be looked upon for words of wisdom and examples of great design. But, still, to say that the perfect web designer does not exist is not a huge stretch of the imagination because we all have our weaknesses, and no one is perfect, right?
Improve Site Usability by Studying Museums
Using a website should be easy. It should be intuitive. We should know what button or link to click to get to where we need to be.
But sometimes websites can be insanely confusing. Just look at the Apple app store, for example. When seeking out apps to install on my iPhone — which as an open source advocate and proponent, I feel incredibly guilty with, by the way — I find myself endlessly frustrated at the general lack of good navigation in iTunes, making the process of discovering the apps I want more difficult than necessary.
PHP Variables: The Ultimate Guide
Variables are important in every programming language — and it’s no different in PHP. Variables give developers the possibility of temporarily storing data to be used in PHP scripts (in PHP’s case, this happens in the server’s memory). This guide is all about working with variables in PHP.
By the way, if you are just starting out with PHP, I recommend reading this guide first: Learning PHP: Get Started Using PHP.
10 Twitterific Twitter Tools
Twitter. It’s huge at the moment: As I’m writing this, I can hear the guy on the radio plugging his own Twitter account to his audience, asking them to follow him. Whether you’re using it for marketing or just personal use, Twitter can be very useful — and fun at the same time.
