By popular request today we are going to take Adrian's wonderful Clean Login Box Tutorial made in Adobe Photoshop and translate it into a functional HTML/CSS website. Now since this is only a tutorial we will not be covering how to make it a fully functional login. This will be a working mock up to display different CSS techniques. The functionality may be covered down the road with a CMS or PHP tutorial.

You can use pretty much and client for coding this that you want. I myself am going to be using Zend Studio for Eclipse, although this does not mean you have to be. Use any editor you can comfortable with, hell you could even use notepad (duh).

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Wow it has been a fair bit since my last blog post on Adrian's wonderful site. (Sorry about that everyone. Adrian and I have been very very busy as of late.)  But today I would like to cover why use PHP instead of other scripting languages.  Because its the Best and every other language sucks! Of course I am just kidding! But on a serious note, why should you choose PHP over Perl, Ruby on Rails or ASP? 

Simplicity and ease of coding. PHP for all its power is a fairly simple scripting language.  It's basics can be learned in one weekend with a text viewer and a server.  A simple cross platform server is brought to us by Apache Friends called  XAMPP.  It contains PHP, Apache, MySQL and many other useful plugins which allow you to run a server in any environment.  

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Hello everyone my name is Sean Habing. First off thank you to Adrian who will be letting me add to his wonderful website. I will be blogging about programming, technology and other interesting items that affect the internet, which seems to be everything these days.  Today I will be covering SSL (Secure Socket Layer). For e-stores, online banking and other websites which require private data to be transferred from the client to the server nothing is more important then SSL.

What seems to be a common issue with most E-stores and websites is expired SSL, Self Signed SSL or just not having it at all.  In a rush to save money small e-stores try to avoid spending the $30 USD/Year as they believe it's not important.  What they fail to grasp is that SSL protects their customers data by encrypting it and sending it through a secure connection.

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