• WordPress Installation: Includes installation and configuration of the WordPress content management system (CMS) on your hosting account. WordPress allows you to update your own site by simply using your web browser. If you don’t have a hosting account yet, *CyberWurx is highly recommend. (Please note: there may be an additional installation charge for certain web hosts.)

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• Content Setup: We’ll setup the first 3 pages of your installation for free!

• Tutoring: Includes 2 hours of WordPress tutoring after setup.

• Contact Form: Includes a fully customizable contact form with additional multipage and paypal features.

• Social Media Integration: Includes links placed on your website for up to 5 of your social media profiles such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Also includes a social sharing function on all blog posts so readers can easily share your posts with others.

• FeedBurner: Includes a set up of Feedburner on your site so your blog readers can easily subscribe to your RSS feed.

• Google Analytics: Includes a set up of Google Analytics on your site so you can track how many visitors your website gets and where they came from.

• Search Engine Optimization: Your website will include built-in search engine optimization features that will help your site achieve better results in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Includes All-in-One SEO and Google XML Sitemap plugins.

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1. Turnaround Time: 1-2 days from project scheduling date.
2. 100% paid in full before beginning project Cash or Paypal only.
3. *Server setup and theme costs not included in the price.
4. Additional page setup, coding and theme alterations: $50hr.

You get referrals and pass out flyers which sustains your business. You have a Facebook page with lots and lots of friends. So why do you need a website?

Stop one way communication

Most traditional advertising is one way communication. The problem with one way advertising is that you cannot get any feedback or collect any information on your client. Building a non invasive membership to your website is a much better long term advertising solution that handing out flyers. The same goes for Facebook, twitter, and other social networking sites, while you are able to communicate with “friends”, you are not able to collect emails, phone numbers or sort through those lists.

Be unique

You have a Facebook page but so does every other stylist. Social media should be an extension of your company, not the company itself. Set yourself apart by branding your company with your own style. After all, you are a “stylists”.

Get Mobile

44% of Americans use Smartphones. Take advantage of it. Create a mobile version of your website and market to mobile Smartphone users with your own custom app and QR Codes.

Your website doesn’t need Flash. Sure Flash looks great, that’s why it’s called “Flash”. But your website doesn’t need it. Since the emergence of HTML5 Flash has become the equivalent of an old heavy gas guzzler from the 70s.

Flash hurts your SEO.

Flash is a stand alone application which is embeddable in most programming languages including HTML. However due to Flash being standalone, search engine crawlers are not able to effectively crawl the Flash content which means a unnecessary drop in the visibility and page rank of your website.

Flash doesn’t play well with mobile devices.

While a Android devices are able to play flash, that doesn’t mean that they should. Even with Flash’s mobile compatibility it still plays inconsistently and is an extreme drain on the battery life. As you probably already know, Apple mobile devices do not support Flash at all. Seeing how ubiquitous iOS is in the mobile market, it would not be wise to neglect a pool of millions upon millions of potential customers just for the sake of a “flashy” website.

Most Flash animation can be reproduced with HTML5.

Most of the time my clients want to use Flash for content sliders and menus. Most of the time they see an animated jQuery-CSS menu and confuse it for Flash. Rest assured that cool slideshow animations navigation can be created in HTML5, and the icing on the cake is that you won’t take an SEO or mobile device compatibility hit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BUoVNnaQ0E

http://youtu.be/w5fqcB_Z444

Shares of Adobe Systems fell the most in three months after the company said it plans to stop making Flash technology for mobile devices, raising concern that new programs for digital publishing will be slow to boost revenue.

The company said Tuesday it would cut 750 jobs as it shifts investment to software for Web publishing and advertising. Instead of Flash, Adobe is focusing on tools that can generate code in the newer HTML5 language, supported by rivals Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Adobe, the largest maker of graphic-design software, pared its sales forecast for the next fiscal year as it shifts to new products. Apple’s dominance in mobile computing, the faster evolution of Web standards like HTML5, and the popularity of smart phones and tablets required Adobe to embrace newer technology, said Al Hilwa, an analyst at market researcher IDC.

“Adobe had to transition, but it’s taking some lumps,” Hilwa said. “Adobe grew when the Internet needed certain kinds of proprietary software to move forward, because the standards weren’t moving fast enough. The market has changed.”

Shares fell 7.7 percent to $28.08 at the close in New York, their biggest drop since Aug. 10. The stock has declined 8.8 percent this year.

San Jose’s Adobe is channeling research, sales and marketing investments into digital media and marketing in the next fiscal year, and expects less licensing revenue from software for corporate servers. As a result, sales will increase 4 to 6 percent next year, the company said Tuesday. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had expected sales to increase 9 percent to $4.53 billion.

The company will stop developing the Flash Player for mobile devices and instead emphasize the Air software, which will work with online application stores, Danny Winokur, an Adobe vice president, said in a company blog post Wednesday.

“It really is time for a new generation of creative tools,” Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen told analysts at a Wednesday meeting in New York. The company will step up efforts to build HTML5 technology into its flagship Creative Suite products and emphasize sales to digital publishers and advertisers, he said. “This is a big, massive opportunity and we think we’re uniquely positioned to win.”

The job cuts, mostly in North America and Europe, will cost $87 million to $94 million before taxes. That includes as much as $78 million of charges in the fiscal fourth quarter ending Dec. 2, Adobe said. After the costs, net income will be 30 to 38 cents per share, compared with a previous forecast of 41 to 50 cents.

This article appeared on page D – 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/09/BU391LSLHO.DTL#ixzz1dPxdCtLd

When writing PHP, proper syntax is paramount. If you do not write your code properly, you will receive errors, which means what your script will not work.

syntax |ˈsinˌtaks|
noun
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language : the syntax of English.

• a set of rules for or an analysis of this : generative syntax.
• the branch of linguistics that deals with this.

Syntax for opening and closing a PHP document

For starters you must wrap all your PHP code within the following:

<?php

?>

You may also use “short tags”,

<?

?>

but I don’t recommend it, it’s better to use the standard PHP tags to insure your scripts will work on most all servers.

Saving your PHP code in HTML, or vise versa

Anytime you want PHP to parse your code, you must use the “.php” file extension.

<html>
<body>

<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>

</body>
</html>

If you were to use the “.html” or the “.htm” extension for the code above the PHP code would NOT be executed leaving you with with a markup of your php code <?php echo “Hello World” ?> instead of the output of just Hello World.

Escape from HTML

PHP looks for anything between the <?php ?> tags to interpret. anything outside those tags is ignored. Here’s an example of “escaping HTML” to place my PHP code:

<span>Today's date is <?php date("Y-m-d"); ?>. Have a nice day. </span>

Conversley, you may also escape HTML from PHP

<?php

echo'

<html>

<body>

<p>Today is', date('Y-m-d'), '. Have a nice day.</p>

</body>

</html>';

?>

Comments in PHP and why they are important

Comments are vital whether you’re writing a script by yourself or working on a full application with a team.

//Comments enable you to leave notes in your script.

//This is a function I want to write, I haven't started it yet...

function liquidSwords{

}

/*

I may also have a line or block of code I can't figure out that I want to render inert...

function Broken{

return null

}

Comments are inert in PHP, so don't worry about it throwing errors or affecting the performance of your script.

*/

You may comment ONE LINE by using 2 forward slashes // or an entire block of code by wrapping it between an opening /* and a closing */.

Semicolons

Statements in PHP should always end with semicolons.

echo 'This is a test';

if you do not end your statements with a semicolon PHP will generate an error.

So what is a string?

A string is simply a string of characters or words. It can be anything from a few words to an entire paragraph. I’m pretty sure you remembered this from our previous entry:

$container = 'Knight Rider, A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in the world of criminals who operate above the law...';

The opening narration for Knight Rider is simply a “string” in programming terms. A variable storing a string can be used for multiple purposes, such as outputting and for use in functions and conditions, which we’ll get into a little later.