Debra commented:
Let me tell you… beginning my online experience with a text-only orientation has still informed my use of the net.
Anyway… you keep mentioning PHP, but never say what it is.
I do think that many of us who started out earlier in the web world may be more into content than others. I know that readability and content certainly are important factors in what I think about, coming to the web design table. Or it could just be Jacob talking…
My bad for not providing info about PHP. I have read that PHP started out meaning “personal home page” (which I find doubtful) but now it stands for “hypertext preprocessor” or “PHP hypertext preprocessor”. It’s a scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. Now before you flee, it’s not like PHP causes your screen to dance and spin. Rather, it’s a way to pull parts of pages from various places, making it easier to put consistent info and material across a site; perform actions like calculations and information providing and gathering; allow registrations; stuff like that. And it works with regular HTML. I’m only on page 125. For more info there are some great sites and books out there. One of the central sites about PHP says this:
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
For more definitions:
That’s all for now!
