Web Design Tips and Info

How to increase your shareholder value by making a user-friendly, interesting, informative, innovative and more importantly busy website that makes your visitors will keep on returning, again and again, generating revenue even while you sleep.

The basics of making Web Pages
Good advanced reading on markup languages
Webmaster Tips
How to administering your site and files on your web hosting space

1. The basics of making Web Pages

How to make Your first Web Page
- How to make your first web page without knowing anything at all about computers: A basic HTML template
How to create and use shortcut (favicon) icons on your pages
- Shortcut icons are the icons displayed in your browser when you visit a web page. These icons are also displayed next to the link when users bookmark your page. It is very easy to make and add such icons to your pages.
The basics of markup languages, something you must master before you create your first web page
- You must know what the html and xhtml standard are and why following those specifications is so very important before you can do anything related to the Internet, specially if it also involved web browsers.
How to choose editor or CMS system
- The first step toward your own personal page is to choose what editor or content management system to use. This is a very big step and probably the most important decision you will ever make regarding your web-site.
Makesure your suite is visitable - for everyone
- Make sure your site always is available and working. This is called uptime. Also, make sure anyone can visit and use your site - no matter what browser, hardware or configuration they have.

2. Good advanced reading on markup languages

The DocBook Demystification HOWTO
- HTML itself is not quite rich enough a format to get us to that world. To name just one lack, you can't explicitly declare index entries in HTML. DocBook does have the semantic richness to support structured documentation databases. Fundamentally that's why so many projects are adopting it.
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
- This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies.

3. Webmaster Tips

A good Webalizer.conf for the Webalizer Apache Log Analyzer utility
- Webalizer is a great tool to get detailed information about your websites visitors. It generates pretty graphs and useful numbers like daily unique visitors, page impressions, bytes served and so on. Here is a nice configuration for it.
How to find out many visit your website
- It can be important to have a fair idea how many people are visiting your websites. The tools you need are ready, free and available both in the form of software and website tools.
Drop the www. part of your domain name
- Stop using www. as part of your domain name, there is no good reason to use it and it does make saying your web address quite difficult.

4. How to administering your site and files on your web hosting space

How to use .htaccess to control your website
- How to prevent hot-linking, refer moved pages and block robots using .htaccess

- How To make Your First Web Page
- What you need to know about markup languages before you can create a website
- Web Site Creation for Beginners: Choosing editor or CMS system
- Drop the www. part of your domain name
- Web Site Creation for Beginners: Makesure your suite is visitable - for everyone
- Apache: How to use mod_expires with Apache 1.3 and 2.0
- Apache: A good Webalizer.conf for the Webalizer Apache Log Analyzer utility
- Website hosts: Let users change their passwords
- DocBook Demystification HOWTO
- What you should know about domain names
- How to create and use shortcut (favicon) icons on your pages
- Using .htaccess for site control
- RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
- Search Engine Control: robots.txt
- xhtml tag reference
- How to find out many visit your website using on-line tools

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP 5.5.0alpha6 released
The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha6. This release fixes some bugs from alpha5. It also serves as a delay for our next release, beta1, integrating ZendOptimizer+ OPCode cache which is not ready yet to be merged. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0alpha6 is shipped with improvements. Here is an incomplete list: Fixed a bug where uninitialized ++$foo->bar; does not cause a notice,Updated bundled PCRE 8.32,Fixed a bug in ext/sockets where sendmsg/recvmsg shutdown handler causes segfaultYou can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha6 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Our first beta should show up on 21st of March. Thank you for supporting PHP.
PHP 5.4.12 and PHP 5.3.22 released!
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.12 and PHP 5.3.22. These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.12.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.12 and PHP 5.3.22 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.
PHP 5.5.0alpha5 released
The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha5. This release fixes some bugs from alpha4 and adds some new features. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0alpha5 is shipped with new features and improvements. Here is an incomplete list: Added the ability to change the tmp dir PHP will use during runtime, using a new php.ini entry, Added mysqli_begin_transaction()/mysqli::begin_transaction(). Implemented all options, per MySQL 5.6, which can be used with START TRANSACTION, COMMIT and ROLLBACK through options to mysqli_commit()/mysqli_rollback() and their respective OO counterparts. These changes are reflected in the mysqlnd API as well, Added recvmsg() and sendmsg() wrappers for ext/sockets You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha5 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Alpha5 is the last alpha for PHP 5.5. There has been a delay in alpha releases due to late coming new features. We are now beginning the betas, and the first beta is expected for March 7th. Betas won't add any new features, except the first one, but consolidate the source code and fix found bugs. Thank you for supporting PHP.
PHP 5.5.0alpha4 released
The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha4. This release fixes some bugs from alpha3 and adds some new features. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0alpha4 is shipped with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list): Class Name Resolution as scalar via "class" keyword, Added DateTimeImmutable class, a variant of DateTime that only returns the modified state instead of changing itself You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0alpha4 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Alpha4 is the last alpha for PHP 5.5. We are now beginning the betas, and the first beta is expected for February 7th. Betas won't add any new features but consolidate the source code and fix found bugs. Thank you for supporting PHP.
PHP 5.4.11 and PHP 5.3.21 released!
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.11 and PHP 5.3.21. These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.11 and PHP 5.3.21 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.
PHP 5.5.0 Alpha3 released
The PHP development team announces the release of PHP 5.5.0alpha3. This release adds few features and fix some bugs from alpha2. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) : Generator::throw() method, New cURL functions and options such as curl_escape(), curl_multi_setopt(), curl_multi_strerror(), curl_pause(), curl_reset()... Max-Age attribute support in setcookie(), Few bug fixes in mysqlnd and core You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 3 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Thank you for supporting PHP.
PHP 5.5.0 Alpha2 released
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0alpha2. This release adds new features and fix some bugs from alpha1. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 comes with new features and improvements such as (incomplete list) : Support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions, Systemtap support by enabling systemtap compatible dtrace probes on linux, Optimized access to temporary and compiled VM variables. 8% less memory reads. Please, note that this alpha version also introduces the ext/mysql depreciation. You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 2 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Thank you for helping us making PHP better.
PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 released!
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20. These releases fix about 15 bugs. Please note that the PHP 5.3 series will enter an end of life cycle and receive only critical fixes as of March 2013. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.10 and PHP 5.3.20 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.
PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19 released!
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19. These releases fix over 15 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.9, or at least 5.3.19.For source downloads of PHP 5.4.9 and PHP 5.3.19 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.The list of changes are recorded in the ChangeLog.
PHP 5.5.0 Alpha1 released
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0alpha1. This release marks the beginning of the PHP 5.5.0 release cycle. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 comes with new features such as (incomplete list) : support for Generators,a new password hashing API,support for finally in try/catch blockssupport for list() in foreach,constant array/string dereferencing,ext/intl improvement.We also dropped support for Windows XP and 2003.You can read the full list of changes in the NEWS file contained in the release archive. For source downloads of PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 1 please visit the download page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/. Thank you for helping us making PHP better.

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