Includes

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Use Domain Wildcarding to Shorten Urls

Which domains would you rather see:

http://exercise.example.com or http://www.example.com/exercise.html

http://computers.example.com or http://www.example.com/computers.html

http://health_news.example.com or http://www.example.com/health_news.html

By using domain wildcarding you can shorten your url and make a sub-page look like a main page.

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Monday, March 21, 2005

PHP and HTML includes - Combined with Dreamweaver templates

In the article “This is so simple, why don’t more websites do it?” I talked about the benefits of include files. Since then, I’ve had some people ask me how to do this with a Dreamweaver template, or with a PHP page. You’ll be surprised at how much time you can save, when you use Dreamweaver templates with include files.

If you don’t use Dreamweaver, don’t worry. This concept can still be used and I’ve included examples you can use.

Here is how you use include files with Dreamweaver.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Rotate Content by Day

Here’s a way you can automatically rotate content based on what day it is - and it requires no programming skills.

For example - you decide that you’d like to feature a different special for each day of the week.

Here’s a real simple way to do this. The first thing you do is

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Monday, January 31, 2005

This Is So Simple - So Why Don't All Websites Do It?

I am absolutely amazed when I discover website developers who do not do this.

Using this simple idea can shave hours off your site maintenance time - allowing you to do more profitable tasks.

What is this, and why doesn’t every do it? Beats me. The first

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