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The Simple Definition:

JavaScript is a form of scripting that enables dynamic features to be embedded into web pages to include items that are constantly updated. Examples of usage could be the embedding of an RSS Feed on a website to provide the latest news updates from another website, a dynamic gallery that rotates photos at predetermined periods of time, java script website menus,  or can be used for the display of live feeds such as cams or video feeds from a remote website.

It’s called “client side” scripting as no calls are made on the server that the website is hosted on and where the script is installed. . In web design circles JavaScript is generally found as useful for adding dynamic content to a website but suffers from a unique problem and that is although it is visible to the human eye  the same as the coding , for some reason search engines can’t see it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet and is an important element of modern website design and features strongly in the WordPress CMS platform. CSS on its own is not really capable of doing much but when combined within the framework of using html and php coding which is found in wordpress it’s a powerful element in the  wordpress equation. CSS basically styles and formats a website with commands that define where things are placed, how big they are, what colours are to be used and how often a particular item appears on a page and much more. In coding terms it’s easier to learn just like HTML and not as complex as PHP. Normally style sheets are incorporated into the HTML coding of a website or in the case of wordpress it is a separate file that loads independently. With the correct styling using CSS a web page loads much faster than say using the old school design practice of using tables in html and scores higher withe search engines as a result with regard to coding compliance. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Simple Definition:

In simple terms MY SQL is the storage of website information which is catalogued into categories and indexed to be later called upon by the php script  within a CMS such as wordpress to create a dynamic web page on the fly. In a word it’s a database software for use on servers. In physical terms it equates to a library. MY SQL merely stores and processes that information via the MY SQL software on the server for the pages to be rendered by the appropriate coding. MY SQL on its own is virtually useless  as it needs to be told what to do and when and how to do it which is the job of the php code within a wordpress software program. PHP you could say is the librarian retrieving the book and presenting it to the person requesting that particular item.

The Technical Definition: [Read the rest of this entry...]

PHP is pretty much the backbone code in the WordPress CMS platform and it’s primary aim is to produce dynamic web pages on the fly in conjunction with databases that are driven by a server software called MY SQL. PHP is a harder coding language to learn than html but is arguably more powerful due to its dynamic web page creation capabilities.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. [Read the rest of this entry...]

HTML as a code in wordpress has a limited appearance on this CMS platform with most of the coding being in PHP. HTML  is one of the original older codes that was used in the early pioneering days of the web when websites were predominantly text based with a few photos and text links and the pages were static in nature as in non dynamic. Updates were done manually by editing the page offline in an editor then uploading to the server  replacing the existing older version. Despite it’s age it is a code that is still widely used and forms the framework environment coding for which php the main wordpress code sits in. It’s an essentia coding language to understand and is simpler than php.

HTML The Definition. [Read the rest of this entry...]