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Randy Hoyt is on the Teaching team at Treehouse. He's been building web sites and web applications for years, and you'll often find him speaking about his experience at local events and conferences. He spends whatever time he can find offline studying mythology and playing board games. Twitter: @randyhoyt
February 28, 2013 in Learn
Vanity URLs can be extremely useful, especially in offline marketing materials. I covered two techniques for creating vanity URLs in PHP in earlier posts: using a subfolder with a header redirect and using rewrite rules in Apache. After publishing those two posts, someone…
February 11, 2013 in Learn
Vanity URLs can be extremely useful, especially in offline marketing materials. I covered how to create a subfolder with a header redirect in my last post; that’s the easiest way to get a vanity URL up and running on a…
January 31, 2013 in Learn
Every page on a website has a unique web address that appears in the address bar when someone visits the page in a browser. These web addresses are known as URLs. (This stands for “uniform resource locator,” but that’s not…
January 2, 2013 in Learn
It’s that time of year again, when many of us are making New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, quit smoking, get out of debt, or make any number of other changes. Instead of setting resolutions to keep, I prefer to…
December 14, 2012 in Learn
Many PHP websites and web applications need to send transactional emails. A user may request a password reset that sends them an email, or you may need to notify a customer that their order has shipped. PHP does have a…
September 25, 2012 in Learn
I have been working on a website that displays products in a grid view, with each product containing a title, an image and some in a grid view. To achieve this layout, I used an unordered list with the CSS…