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A Freelance and Professional Web Designer working in and around Chicago, IL.

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Phone: 708.224.7928

April 26, 2009

PHP form processing

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — admin @ 8:26 pm

Things are going great with the book “PHP and MySQL Web Development” by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. It is truly a great book, they have great examples and is easily understandable while explaining everything in full detail. The first thing I did is made a script to process and order form. It is great the way they explain everything and you can tell that these guys really know what they are doing. The first chapter explains basic syntax but not only that, it does that while taking you through the example (processing a form). They really do a nice job of keeping you on track with the example while teaching you the basics. I cant wait to keep going and learn more and more, which I am going to do right now! Enjoy

April 22, 2009

Content management for your business

Filed under: web design chicago, web design tools — admin @ 3:45 pm

Content management systems are a great way to maintain a website at a low cost. Once you have a CMS set up with desired design virtually you don’t have to spend anymore money on updates and maintenance. If done correctly you can specify different layouts for different pages through a user friendly interface. Web Design Chicago is a great way to get the job done!

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April 20, 2009

PHP and MySQL Web Development

Filed under: books — admin @ 11:41 am

PHP and MySQL Web Development, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson seems like a really good book on PHP. If you have ever tried the Peachpit Press books (the ones with the goofy colors and rabbit on the front), they are nice but they use a lot of basic syntax with very simple examples. In this book they make a point NOT to do that. The examples are real life situations and the book starts off jumping right into a order processing form. I compared it to one of the Peachpit Press books and there is a huge difference. I highly suggest paying the extra $20 and getting a book more like this one. It covers a lot more subjects on e-commerce and CMS. Im very excited to get into this book even the first example in the book looks awesome!

April 16, 2009

GuruBooking

Filed under: Projects — admin @ 10:51 am

Gurubooking.com is a travel agency dedicated to getting you lower rates and giving you the 411 on each deal. It has been a fun project to work on so far, I have gotten the chance to dig into PHP and that is what its all about! What I always say, you learn fastest when you are put into a sink or swim situation (that is if u can swim). For me I love to receive a problem, look for the answer, and apply it to a real life website. Reading stuff out of a textbook or receiving instructions from a teacher, seeing it on a chalkboard just isn’t good enough. Get your hands dirty!

April 14, 2009

Web Tutorials!

Filed under: Web Tutorials — admin @ 11:33 pm

Greetings everyone, I am glad to inform you that I will be posting lots of web tutorials over time. I will try to post about 2-3 a week. I hope you like them and I hope they help with all your web design needs.

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Arizona Company Offers Low Cost Web Design

Filed under: seo company, web company — Tags: , — admin @ 12:41 am

Twirlia offers a range of services to small businesses, including web design, website maintenance, hosting, and shopping cart setup. In addition, Twirlia provides affordable marketing options, such as pay-per-click, social networking, search engine optimization, virtual spokesperson technology and email marketing.
The recession is forcing many small businesses to make decisions they wouldn’t normally, decisions that could possibly hurt them
Twirlia offers a win-win solution for everyone.

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April 1, 2009

Web Design Made Easy

Filed under: web company, web design chicago — Tags: , — admin @ 7:29 pm

Web sites are the books of the computer age. Just like any good book, a good web site needs a very good web designer with high caliber web design skills to make the web pages visually appealing and functional to its users as well.

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