Category: PHP
Creating lightweight web sites with PHP
Back to basics So I’ve had a couple of months of using WordPress now, and I have to say for blogging, site which are going to grow rapidly or for multi-editor sites, I would definitely recommend it. I still believe, however, it is overkill for many uses cases. HTML is very good at what it…
Creating reusable patterns for WordPress Themes
As I’ve hinted at before one of the advantages of writing websites from scratch is that you get to be in control of everything. Of course as a site grows in complexity that can become a disadvantage too. Control, however, is addictive – and now I am using WordPress I am working hard at bending…
Draining the swamp
“When you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp” It seems quite appropriate that in wanting to start a tech blog about the difficulties in keeping up to date, I should start by having to update a whole bunch of dependencies. My web-host…