I have spent the last two days writing translation scripts in PHP for the back-office side of the affiliate websites. The main issue is a lack of consistency between affiliate companies and their members in regards to the quality of information provided. I took a look at the datafeeds from all the affiliate companies we [...]
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I always do things back-to-front. Every book that I have ever read on web design has said that the design comes last! For me, its one of the first things I do - that way I can visualise how the page will look and what modules I need to write.
Last night I made a start [...]
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Like many familes, we are currently finding as many ways of saving money. Last weekend, we went for a beautiful 2 hour walk at a local beauty spot, Newmillerdam in Wakefield.
One of the walks is through the wooded area at the side and back of the lake and we had remembered to bring a plastic [...]
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Continuing in our preparation, I have purchase three domains through 123-Reg:
valid-discount-codes.co.uk
find-my-best-price.co.uk
find-lowest-price.co.uk
The first domain will be used purely to display valid discount codes and links to a number of online shops. This site is going to be harder to get establised in the search engines due to limited content so I will have to do [...]
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I have to admit - I am a total sucker for any type of useless gadget - they keyword there is useless! One of my favourite websites is Firebox - a website dedicated to any and all types of useless gadgets. Unsurprisingly, I do most of my Christmas shpooing on Firebox!
Took a quick look this [...]
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Lloyds TSB have today confirmed a takeover of troubled UK bank HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland). HBOS, who’s shares have taken a real hammering in recent weeks were in danger of going under when the Lloyds TSB acquisition was announced. The new combined bank willown a third of all mortgage business in the UK and [...]
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MySQL (referred to incorrectly as ‘my sequel’) is a relational database management system with in excess of 11 million installations worldwide. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
MySQL is a popular choice for websites and acts as the database component of the LAMPÂ platforms (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). Its popularity for use [...]
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PHP (Personal Home Page) is a server side computer language mainly used for the development of dynamic websites. PHP websites typically link into a database and create webpages from the data held. PHP has developed since its original development in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf and is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP is installed [...]
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Ok - this list isn’t going to be exhaustive as we’ll add to it as we go along however to start up I need:
1. Blogging Software - chosen Wordpress as I am familiar with it and it is easy to work with. Wordpress also has an impressive list of plug-ins should I need to add [...]
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