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Easy PHP Include Implementation for Your Site

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Emmett Lollis Jr.

Overview of This Article In this article, I explain the benefits of using PHP includes in site design as well as a technique which allows pre-set include paths to work on your local testing server as well as your hosting provider. The Benefits of PHP Includes Often times as website designers we are faced with the issue of designing a very large website. The pre-thinking and design of your site is the most important phase … Continue reading →

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A Little PHP Can Cause Big Problems

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Emmett Lollis Jr.

The Issue A few days ago I was downloading my raw log files so I could run my web analysis software. I noticed that the raw log file seemed to be extremely large for the amount of traffic my site typically receives. I didn’t think a whole lot about it because I’ve recently installed WordPress for this blog and I know that WordPress generates a lot more log file entries. I had a lot going on with … Continue reading →

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My HTML to PHP Conversion Experience

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Emmett Lollis Jr.

Hasty Decisions I’ve been running TulsaRockNRoll.com since 2001. In the beginning I was running apache on my home computer over a DSL connection which worked pretty good. I decided to make use of server side includes (SSI) to make the management of my site easier. I didn’t want to go through the mess of renaming my entire site from HTML to SHTML file extensions so I decided to just tell apache to treat HTML files … Continue reading →

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Fun with Breadcrumbs, My Experience

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Emmett Lollis Jr.

Fun with Breadcurmbs I decided to add breadcrumbs to my new blog to help with site navigation. I found a great plugin called Yoast WordPress SEO which has built in breadcrumb support. The plugin has a lot more than just breadcrumb support. If you have any concern about how well your blog displays in Google I would advise adding the plugin. I won’t go into detail about the other features since I’m focusing on breadcrumb support … Continue reading →