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November 21st, 2009 | 
Author: The PHP web development environment is a great open source solution for creating interactive, data-driven websites. With everyone working on the internet nowadays, it pays to have a top quality, fully interactive website where customers can come and look at your products, but them, review them and more. You can do this with most website design programs, but one of the best to use is PHP. When you look for PHP web development there are numerous companies that can help you, but you can also teach yourself.
This is something that takes time to learn, and most web designers and developers will have gone to a college to study this. You can also learn PHP in your own time at home using the latest web guides and ebooks that are interactive and that explain everything to you in detail. You will have to pay for these, but it is far cheaper than going to study at a college.
It is also a lot faster and you can study it in your own time. It is best to choose a few PHP programs and tutorials to go through because you will find that you like some better than others or there might be some items that one does not have but that the other one shows in detail.
It all depends on the type of website you want to build as to how detailed you need the PHP tutorial to be. You can use the PHP scripts for many different things and build the best kinds of interactive websites. You can choose if you want to use flash with this or if you want to add any other elements in the coding.
Once you know these details then PHP becomes easier. You will also find that a lot of the tutorials cover similar topics, but there are those that do cover some different things. This is why you should try to get more than one tutorial that you can use to give you the best possible learning experience.
However, those two things combined still do not add up to the power your site with have if you gave your time to learning all you can learn about the awesomeness of PHP web development – so if you want to get there, know that you have a long road ahead.
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Adobe Dreamweaver’s template feature provides a blueprint for a web page which can provide a mechanism for creating and updating multiple pages with a common layout. Any of the web page types that Adobe Dreamweaver handles can be made into a template: HTML, ASP, ASPX, CFM OR JSP. Templates consist of fixed regions and editable regions. The fixed regions are those parts of the page which contain elements which will be identical on all pages based on the templates: things such as logos, navigation bars, headers and footers. The editable regions are those areas of the page which can be modified each time a page is created and based on the template.
Each time you create a template, there is no need to specify which regions of the page will be locked when the template is applied to a page. The entire page will be locked by default and, hence, if you save a template that has no editable regions, a dialog box will appear reminding you that the template is pretty much useless until you insert at least one editable region.
To create an editable region, position the cursor in the required location and choose Insert – Template Objects – Editable Region. A dialog box will appear prompting you to enter a name. Enter any descriptive name and click the OK button.
Editable regions can be placed inside of two main areas: you can create a free region or a bound one. By a free region, I mean one in which you can enter any content you like; by a bound one, I mean one where the content you enter is limited. For example, if you want to create an editable region into which you can insert the main content of each page, you would probably be placing your editable region inside a DIV element. However, if you want to create an editable region to allow users to insert just a heading, you would place your editable region inside an H1 element.
The element that contains your editable region is critcal to how the region can be used and it is very easy to accidentally place an editable region inside a paragraph of heading element by mistake. In fact, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 will always display an alert if any template that you save has an editable region inside a paragraph or heading element.
There are two simple ways of keeping track of where your editable region is being inserted. The first is to switch to Code view and double-check where your cursor is positioned. The second is, while in Design view, look at the tag selector. This is the area at the bottom of the document window on the left of the status bar. The last tag displayed on the tag selector is the one inside which your cursor is currently positioned. If the last tag displayed is P for paragraph or H1, H2, etc., simple right click on the unwanted tag and choose Remove Tag from the context menu.
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