by Paula Bishop | Jun 10, 2015 | Branding, Programming, Social Media Marketing, Web Design
For my Capstone project I chose to do a cookbook, as I’ve been accumulating recipes I’ve made on little pieces of paper in a huge stack in a bookshelf in my kitchen. I took the plunge and coded my project in PHP using the artisan framework Laravel. Laravel for PHP is like JQuery for Javascript–it’s not a language, per se, but a complex library of functions that one can hook into to create applications more quickly and securely–Laravel does some heavy lifting, but has a large learning curve, especially as it is all object-oriented. I could (and probably should) devote a whole blog to Laravel.
by Paula Bishop | Apr 12, 2014 | Content Management Systems, Programming, Web Design, Wordpress
Plugins are a big reason why Wordpress has gotten as powerful and as popular as it has, for they extend the functionality of Wordpress in many different ways, including adding shopping carts, boosting SEO ratings, adding widgets and calculators to make conversions, etc.
by Paula Bishop | Mar 12, 2014 | Content Management Systems, Programming, Web Design, Wordpress
When you look at a webpage, you see it as one page, with various elements (masthead, footer, content area, sidebar, etc.), and in straight html, you code it as one page, with the DOCTYPE declaration at the top, opening and closing tags for various parts of the page. With themes, though, these parts are divvied up and each one becomes their own page, functioning under a model similar to the Model View Controller.
