I have written a couple of articles describing different tools and I enjoy using and I like to include all of the free tools you can use. Well here are my 5 favorite web design tools that are absolutly free to use.
CPanel or Control Panel is a very powerful web application for maintaining and configuring your web hosting. It allows you to create, edit and delete files, email addresses, domain and subdomains. A lot of good web hosting companies like www.cheapasdirthosting.net provide this web application for your with no additional charge. Learn how to use this tool and what is provided in it.
Part 1 of my Beginning PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Pages showed you how to access a MySQL server, access a database and even retrieve and write data to that table. In this article we will go a little deeper and discuss retrieving entries from the table and how to use them in a PHP document or documents. We will discuss how to create one page that can actually support an unlimited number of pages, if I have confused you with that last statement then just read on because it should all come very clear soon.
Cascading Style Sheets or CSS as they are more commonly known have been around for many years now and can be used to format your page any way imaginable. CSS is a very easy way to keep you web page consistant with your fonts, colors, and many other aspects. CSS also allows you to get this information in a single file instead across all of your web pages. If you have a 200 + page website and a decision has been made to change the font on the pages from arial to verdana then you would have to manually edit 200+ pages to make tha change. But with CSS all you have to do is change the CSS files, which for a large webpage maybe two or three files, a lot better than 200+ files.
