Author: Rob

Professional PHP Programming

Tuesday July 18th 2000

This is the book I’ve been using to put this site back together!

For anyone who’s gone as far as they can with HTML and JavaScript, PHP is probably the next step you should take. Unlike Cold Fusion from Allaire, it wont cost you thousands – it’s free and open source, and there are quite a few hosts out there who’ll provide it alongside a MySQL back end for you.

All you need is some basic SQL, of which the book contains plenty of examples, and you should be up and running in no time.

Wrox are starting to get quite a tidy range of manuals on the go to suit web professionals. I’mquite looking forward to their up coming WAP programming book. Until then the PHP should keep me busy and get this site working a bit better in addition!

Buy Wrox’s Professional PHP Programming from Amazon.co.uk

SRH

Wednesday December 1st 1999

SRH I designed the Scottish Radio Holdings corporate site to coincide with the release of the companies end of year figures back in December 1999.

I worked without remit, but chose to follow the style of the annual report in order to create consistancy for those who chose to visit the site after viewing the report.

The site was created in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and using Adobe ImageStyler for the navigation bar.

Change of host on the horizon

Tuesday November 30th 1999

Due to an, er, expectation failure with my current server set up, I have decided to move the site on to pastures new.

Which is bad news for anyone who mails me (not to mention the vast amount of junk mail I get) as there will be the inevitable break in service as the move takes place.

Regardless, it’s time to take the plunge and I expect to shift things over this coming weekend. Fasten your seatbelt, content!