Preface for those who don’t know what MAMP is: It’s a server that lives on your mac. It runs dynamic scripts, like WordPress, etc. on your local machine. (XAMPP for Windows and MAMP) for Mac. Sometimes in MAMP, the MySQL server decides not to start. I’ve concluded that this is a result of using the [...]

I have been building and running websites of all kinds for many years now, as some of you may know. With this, I have experimented with many different web hosts over time. Some have been awful, yet some of them have been really great! Today I am going to share my experiences with InMotion Hosting [...]

Wordpress. If you have even step foot in the realm of blogging, then you’re sure to have heard of it. This little machine composed of gears ran by PHP power more than 25 million of the worlds blogs. Not only is WordPress as itself robust, there are millions of themes and plugins to make your [...]

In this development article we'll look at introducing the concept of cross-browser Website testing using five of the most popular Web browsers. The article also includes some external links for further reading on the topic and a list of 12 other Web browsers. [...]

Have you ever wondered why some websites looks so neatly organized and styled? Maybe the information is very well distributed...but what make those websites special? Most of them use something called "grids". So what's a grid? And how do I use them? [...]

When learning how to code in various languages, it often times helps to know the proper way to comment out certain items. If you don't already know what it means to add a 'comment' to the code, just little notes. It can also be used to block something out, it's stopping a certain piece of [...]

If you've got a wordpress blog, chances are you're frequently on the lookout for great themes to use; I know I always am. Well, I have compiled the monster of all monsters just for this purpose. You'll find 'freemium' themes, along with specialty, minimalist, magazine, portfolio and photo blog themes, adding up to the 1200+ [...]