Like many others I run a development version of a local Apache web server called WAMP. Up until today I had a normal file structure built for clients and specific client work. Usually I build a large majority of the site locally before uploading it to a production server. This has caused me a lot of problems with using absolute paths because I basically couldn't. Before moving to ...

I love CSS but I have spent countless hours swearing at my computer because of CSS... It's a love/hate relationship really. Although web standards have been around for a while now, people still use tables and improper code to create websites. For the most part I'm not talking about professional websites, but for a lot of people, it's easier/quicker to just write using traditional methods despite it's obvious ...

In part 1 I tried to explain the basics of HTML. Now, I will go into a little more detail.First things first. Let's look at some code. I want to explain the different parts of a standard HTML page. Every complete web page needs the following elements: - html - head - body Each element must be enclosed in the right tags for that element (a tag is a way to describe the ...

Recently a co-worker has been interested in learning a little bit of HTML. He's very insightful in realizing the huge value you get for investing a little time. Honestly there's really only a little bit you need to learn in order to have a pretty good understanding of HTML. I always tell people, "I could teach you in 5 minutes - it's simple." I'm going to give you ...

I've spend the the last couple days designing and developing the shopping cart/billing/shipping section of AtomicCoffeeShop.com which includes integration with the United States Postal Service's API. In theory it sounds pretty cool, but in actuality, it's only been up and running for me for a day or so and I'm already coming across problems. In testing alone, their server seems like it's down. I'm getting a lovely "HTTP request ...