When you’re developing applications or a website using MySQL, there are a few tips you can follow to enhance the security of your database. When you create a database and use PHP to code your applications you’re automatically faced with hash security risks that can hinder what you’ve worked hard to develop. Below, we’re going to touch base on a few Vital MySQL Development Security Tips that will help you secure your database. If you haven’t already, read our Vital Tips for Working with MySQL Databases article for more information.
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If you’re looking to effectively design one of the most influencing and creative areas of your web site, you need to know a few key points. The header of your web site helps the visitors connect and understand the information that you are trying to provide. If your websites header was not designed to optimize the flow of all information contained between your web site, then the entire layout would seem unbalanced. You headers design is extremely important, this is why we’ve outlined a few points on how to design …

Here we are, year two of the official economic downturn and you’re either out of work, can’t find a full time job or you simply want to get into some freelancing. Whatever your situation, gaining new clients is a great way to fill in those gaps or gain a long term source of income. Barring any headaches along the way, some pretty satisfied walking and more importantly talking advertisements for YOU too.
Why Craig’s List?
Freelancing can be tricky. You may even have to do things that you aren’t comfortable like that …

What’s a PHP Framework?
PHP is the world’s leading and most popular scripting language. It offers real flexibility, and is easy to use once you know what you’re doing. Even though coding in PHP can be tedious and repetitive work, we often use a PHP framework to simplify the coding process.
PHP frameworks make it a whole lot easier for you to create web applications written in PHP, they provide a sort of structure for your applications. All in all, PHP frameworks allows for rapid application development (RAD), saving you time, coding, …

As an avid web and graphic designer I’ve found much use for these sites in order to get my work out into the open a bit more, and to reduce the load time of web pages. Image hosting sites are now a common commodity, however, finding the best one isn’t always as easy as finding one in a Google search. Below you will find over 12 (fifteen to be exact) image hosting sites great for designers, and useful for everyone!
ImageBam

ImageBam is a very simple and basic image hosting site that …

I am a huge fan of WordPress. Huge. More than just a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a content management tool that is ideal for many small to mid-sized websites. As a designer, WordPress gives me the tools to develop a website that clients can manage without needing my help (without having to call on a programmer). It let’s me get back to being a designer as opposed to a site administrator. It empowers my clients to share content, while it frees me up to solve their design and …

MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) around, with over 6 million installations. It’s a fantastic choice for any new developer, because of its open source nature, wide support and abundance of tutorials available on the subject.
Here are a few Valuable Tips, Tutorials, and Applications users need to know when working with MySQL.
Installing SQL
If you’re a newbie to the server side coding arena, don’t worry. Installing SQL is very, very simple. Ok, well if you do it the geeky way it could take you …

Apple’s Snow Leopard update to Mac OS X has been embraced accordingly within Apple’s community. Snow Leopard is the latest release in series of Mac OS X. The first release of Mac OS X was named Jaguar (10.2) on 24 August 2002. It was then superseded by Panther (10.3) in October 2003, and so on. Apple’s Mac OS X has come a long way from those days, in fact, this OS has frantically been evolving ever since. However, not in the least in its visual appearance. Though technically, its advancement …

Google promised that Chrome would be fast to launch and fast to load web pages, but people predicted it would fail with the arrival of its extensions. Well, the extensions are here (at least for some of us) and surprisingly they do not affect the browser’s performance. And not only that, but playing with Google Chrome Extensions is like child’s play, whether you’ve added a new extension, or deleted one, you won’t need to restart your browser. Extensions are so easy to manage and use that once you have access …

There’s an absolute ton of material out there on the internet, and in the so-called Blogsphere, specifically geared towards helping designers hone their craft. There are tricks and tips, tutorials and lists. There are in depth articles, an ark load of inspiration (an ark, of course, being a very large boat) and innumerable freebie resources for you to use.
It’s like a veritable designer’s Utopia, a wide open land echoing with the promise of growing knowledge and better design.
It sounds wonderful. It is wonderful. I love being a part of the …