Just Another Web Development Blog

Some free website hosts decide to put links to their website at the bottom of your website, directly after the HTML tag.  Not only does this most likely affect the validity of your page, but it also looks ugly (in my case, it made a DOUBLE SCROLLBAR (oh noes!)).  Luckily for you, I’ve found a super easy, and quite surprising way to fix it.

Now instead of adding </html> at the end of your website like every good webmaster should, add <?php exit(“</html>”);?>.  What this does is stop parsing ANYTHING after what you put inside that exit() statement - Thus barring your free host from putting those annoying ads on your free account!

I can understand why free hosts have ads.  They need money somehow, and that’s where they get some of it.  So if you go and stop the ads from showing, you could potentially lower the webhost’s income by a small factor.  Cut to the chase and you’re banned!

So use wisely ;)

Recently I learned about an Internet phenomenon (gasp!  They have those, too!?) called ‘Post Overload’.  Basically it’s what happens when new bloggers or website owners post a ton of posts in a very short period of time.  In some ways, lots of content is good, but for most websites that are just starting out, you’ll be exhausting all of your ideas, and so your website will be very active for a few weeks, but then once your visitors realize that you were just another ‘Few-Post-Wonders’ they will stop coming.

Luckily there is an easy fix for this…

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Whenever you make your first website, most of the time you’ll make a lot of posts, nobody reads them, and so you stop.  BIG MISTAKE.  You shouldn’t stop.  Why?

Well, you want members, replies, or other things like that.  All in all, you want more traffic (hits, visits).  People who first come to your website will see content, but not a lot of activity.  They’ll either join, post a few things, and then leave if nothing really happens, join and not post, or not even join at all because they don’t want to waste their time on a sparse webpage.  So the easiest way to get your website bigger is to just keep posting.  Advertise.  Invite people you know, or don’t know to come join your website.  With luck, people will come and join.

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I’ve decided to start this new blog, seeing as I haven’t really found a blog about Web Development and Design.  There are tons of blogs or websites about Web Design, and a few about Web Development, but very few about both.  I’d like to contribute to that number, and so here I am.

And now for the inevitable ‘About this blog’ post.

This blog is going to be used for me and possibly a few others to post things that we find interesting around the interwebs.  Mainly articles about PHP.  Not only will I (or we) sometimes link to a page, but I’ll write a few tutorials and useful code snippets.  So there you go.  This site in a nutshell.

I’ll also be doing (as best I can) a ‘Code Snippet Saturday’, where I’ll be posting super-small, sometimes useless, and sometimes obviously easy to make, snippets of code, in any language.  So look forward to those!

I also have to work on changing the template from the current design.  It’s not that I don’t like the current one, I just feel I shouldn’t be using a template when I have a blog about Web Design (you know?).  Tumblr source code is very strange, and the styles are similar, so I’ll have some work to do!

Everybody who’s been on the Internet most likely knows what a website is.  Many of you also want one.  And many of you already do.  This post is for the ones of you who don’t, but there’s nothing stopping you already-owning-a-website-owners from reading this.

When you first start off, there are 3 main directions to go towards.  Well, maybe 2, because the third direction is for the ‘seasoned web owner/developer’.

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