You could keep pretending to be a super-cool Geek by using notepad to edit your PHP code, or you could stop trying to impress the girls and start using something really productive for a change like Komodo Edit by ActiveSate.
Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings.
If you’re looking for a reliable one click install solution for testing and developing websites under Windows, then WampServer will do the job perfectly (no configuration required, just download, install and go).
Use WampServer to run PHP, MySQL and Apache from within Windows. So now you can test and develop your website projects offline instead of having to do it all live on your main server.
Great development tool if you don’t always have reliable internet access!
I’ve been designing and developing websites since the beginning of the World Wide Web. Some of my earlier designs (experimental personal sites) made it into a couple of the large Internet magazines of the time. I mostly focuses on designing websites using WordPress (a very flexible content management system, aka CMS). Two of my favorite projects to date are www.mytubestop.com and www.ratemybistro.co.uk .
If you would like me to help you design and develop your own website then please use the Email link at the top of this page, include as much information about your website idea as possible.
I develop mainly with PHP and MySQL running on Apache.
If you’re looking for a short easy to remember domain name but don’t want to pay for it then maybe this is for you, Scrooge. Visit www.co.cc , search for an available sub domain name and you might just get it for FREE. Most sub domains I searched for came up FREE, but some were asking $3 - $11. Keep trying you’ll find a freebie. So wait a minute, what’s the catch then? There is a small catch, but only a small one - With co.cc you’re getting a sub domain name, not an official second level domain name.
This service is the equivalent of me giving you anyname.urbanskaters.co.uk or anyname.urbanskaters.com (the anyname part is called the subdomain, the urbanskaters part is the second level domain, the .co.uk and .com are the top level domains), but because the second level domain here is co and the top level domain is .cc , when you put co and .cc together it looks very similar to co.uk (but remember co.uk is a top level domain in itself, whereas co.cc combines a second level and top level. Hence urbanskaters.co.cc looks no different to urbanskaters.co.uk. Still not making sense? Try typing just co.uk into your browsers address bar. Then co.cc , to see what happens.
The .co.cc domain is not an official hierarchy; it is merely a standard domain like any other and is used for a free URL redirection service. - Wikipedia
You initially get 2 FREE “Sub” domains but for a small donation of $10 (about £5) you get a further 100. You must either point each subdomain at an existing website (Forwarding) or edit the DNS to point to your own server. Failing to do either within 48hrs will lose you your subdomain. Just keep that in mind!
Thanks to Dave for recommending the co.cc service.
If you’re thinking of signing up to Facebook then watch this video for some helpful safety tips and general advice.
What is a website, html document, internet server, search engine, spider, url, http, lan, wan, bluetooth, wi-fi, 3G device and loads more terminology explained. This video even explains what a CD ROM is !
If you’re thinking about signing up to a mobile broadband service, then please stop and seriously reconsider. I’ve been using a Vodafone mobile broadband express card now for about 6 months and it’s hopeless. The service is constantly slow (nowhere near the 7.2MBps qouted) with pages taking several seconds to a minute or more to load. During certain hours of the day some websites (like Facebook) become unavailable and my GPRS status will drop leaving me with a naff 54kps connection.
Don’t be fooled by the the unlimited usage packages either as they come with small print. It’s called fair usage policy, so please read that carefully as I found recently that if I go over a certain download limit, they reduce my bandwidth. Which is reduced further if I continue to use up more bandwidth than they REALLY want me to. Unlimited, yeah right!
One more thing that I’m terribly unhappy with is the rubbish support that Vodafone offer. I recently noticed that whenever I use the express cards preloaded software to manage my connection that my PC gradually slows down to a complete halt. On further investigation I noticed that the Vodafone software was opening hundreds and hundreds of ports (to the localhost, so no real danger I guess) called DOOM.
I got an email from Dave @ DaveySpeedstar.com yesterday, he had noticed my posts about WordPress and wanted to share his personal top 10 WordPress Plugins. So, here we go..
1. Google XML Sitemaps
2. All-in-one SEO Pack (Search Engine Optimisation for WordPress)
3. WordPress.com Stats (Generate visitor stats for your blog)
4. Vipers Video Quick tags (embed video from popular video portals)
5. WordBook (facebook plugin)
6. Adsense manager
7. Events Calender
8. wp-db backup (Easy backup of your WordPress database)
9. Snapshots for wordpress.org (Enhances WordPress)
10. wp-cache (speeds up your blog by caching pages)
Feel free to send in your top 5-10 WordPress plugins and maybe I’ll generate a page just for this list 
There are a lot of FREE ftp clients out there but nothing comes close to being as simple and intuitive to use as the CoffeeCup Free FTP client. If you’re new to setting up and maintaining your own website and using FTP then I’d highly recommend CoffeeCup Free FTP Client.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol.
The lucky people of London now have an exclusive classified ads website. myTubeStop.com lets the visitor search for and sell items based on tube stop, tube line or zone. myTubeStop.com also lets people advertise properties for rent or sale, which is what I like most about it. Search for a property to rent near your preferred tube stop, or find items for sale within your zone. Forget about paying for postage, if you know the tube stop they are closest to, simply meet up there and make the exchange.
Unlike Gumtree and CraigsList, myTubeStop.com is committed to bringing you a classified ads website exclusively for Londoners with a more accurate search engine (no more searching in North London and getting South London ads back).
myTubeStop.com: a classified ads website just for Londoners!
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