As a designer, developer or even a store owner – you may want to be able to look at a website that the DNS currently does not point to. This is often done during development or the design processes. Here’s how you accomplish this.

Hosts file instructions:

Make sure you shut down your browser before doing anything to the hosts file, or the browser may not pick up the changes you have made.

your hosts file is located here:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

There is no file extension for your hosts file, you will need to open it in notepad or another text editing program.…

Commenting Code Standards

The following is an example of a code commenting standard we use, whetehrver applicable – and it doesn’t matter if it is to be used for HTML or scripting languages.

Comment indicator Start – FDG – Name – Date as MM-DD-YYYY Comment indicator
php, javascript, css
/*Start – FDG – Name – MM-DD-YYYY*/
smarty
{*Start – FDG – Name – MM-DD-YYYY*}
HTML

or in the case of HTML:

<!– FDG – Name – MM-DD-YYYY –>

 

Note – Not all code will always be commented, otherwise, before you know it – it would become bloated in of itself.

Throwaway prototyping is a method of development that employs technical mechanisms for reducing risk in a project.

There is subtle, but significant difference in this approach that we want to explore.

For some companies, projects – pretty much any technical undertaking you can think of, there is a lot of pressure to continue development of the first prototype or draft of a project. For clients and customers, this is often due to trying to save on cost and reuse that which obviously propelled them to the next stage of a particular project.…

What is mesothelioma & why should you care? Well, mesothelioma is a type cancer that is often fatal and is usually caused in most cases by exposure to asbestos.

Why do you care about this on a Web Marketing or Adsense blog? Well, for one .. it is one of the highest paying keywords currently on the Google Adsense system.

Who pays for it? Law firms big or small for one. They are the same groups you see on late night television hawking their ads and promises of large settlements if you think you have been exposed.…