User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX)   The modern face of your business is your application or website, not a sales person. What does your web presence looks like? How do your customers interact with it and, especially, how quickly can your customers find what they are looking for? Your answers can literally mean the… View Article

HELLO, MY NAME IS SKOTI-ALAIN ELLIOTT Yeah, okay, it’s pronounced ’Scotty’ — don’t ask. I’m a coder; a developer if you prefer, of web apps and web sites. I do front and back-end application builds from concept through to production. I also do full-suite audio and some video production, graphic design, and I even dabble… View Article

In parts one and two, we’ve covered a few of the primary web languages: PHP, SQL, HTML, and CSS. Let’s get into a few of the more advanced languages. Explanations of these will be brief as some of the concepts here are difficult to grasp until you are actually developing and need them. XML is the language that HTML is based on. It is structure, structure, structure when it comes to data! XML quite simply defines ownership, relationship, and type for data…

In part one, we were talking about internet languages and we managed to pull some data using PHP and SQL from a database about some purchases that we made on our debit card. We then took that data and structured it using HTML giving us a simple table that looks like it got the raw end of the ugly stick. I’ll redraw the table so we can remember what it looked like. Cover your eyes…

So many of the conversations that I have with non-developers about development eventually lead to some explanation of the languages and frameworks that I use to build a site or application. It becomes necessary, then, to explain the specific roles that each language performs, why they do what they do, and why the do not do what the other languages do. In the interest of good relations, here are some (very) simple examples and explanations of a few of the languages, what they do and why they do it…