Reusing pieces of HTML code is a common way of making web sites (or web applications) more consistent, reliable, and more manageable. Even a small web site consisting of perhaps 20 or 30 web pages can benefit from reusing code for header and footer sections, for example. If the same header or footer is used across all the pages on the site, it makes sense to put the header and footer code in separate files, and then call those files to insert their contents where required.

PHP offers two statements that can be used for inserted the contents of one file inside another: include() and require(). These two statements are virtually identical, with the only real difference being that if require() fails, it gives a fatal error, whereas if include() fails it just gives a warning. For this reason I tend to use the include() statement as it just seems slightly more friendly.

So, to include the contents of a file called header.inc inside a web page called index.php, you would just need to insert the following line of code (wrapped in PHP opening and closing tags) inside index.php.

Include 'header.inc';

As PHP takes no notice of the extension used for the included file, you can use whatever extension you want to. Be careful though, if you put passwords inside an include file with a .inc extension, they will be visible. You can get around this by putting include files that contain sensitive information outside the document tree to prevent people from browsing to them.

In Part 2 we'll look at the use of functions when developing web sites and applications.

Internet really is the money-making, cash-spitting, wealth-building profit machine, just like the dreamers said it was. However, not many people realized this huge earnings potential. The biggest problem they faced is just that they do not know how to build website from scratch. And their lack of knowledge about HTML often holds them back to build a successful money-making website.

This article is about that, teaching you how to build website from scratch without HTML knowledge at all.

Let's get going...

List Everything You Know About Anything

The best capital in the online world is not about money, but knowledge instead. The good news about making money online is that, you can monetize your knowledge instantly. No matter how useless you think about anything you know, there will always be someone out there that is looking for that information. The best part is that you can get paid by just sharing the information.

You can start by listing everything you know about anything. This can be an activity that you love doing during your leisure time, something that you did as a part time job or techniques that you had learnt while working in the office. Divide those subject matters into several topics and rank them from the theme you are most comfortable with. It is a good idea to begin with the top preference first.

Research The Most Profitable Keywords

Refine your preferred topics by doing some keyword research. You can use the free keyword tools like Overture Keyword Tool to get started or some paid keyword tools like Wordtracker to dig even deeper. After collecting all those possible keywords, continue researching its profitability by looking at the possible affiliate products as well as the cost-per-click (CPC) in the Google AdWords.

Moving forward, you will have a list of the most profitable keywords and the "not so profitable" one. Rank them accordingly and start structuring your web design concept. Then, locate the most profitable keywords in the Tier-2 pages; where they are accessible from the homepage, and the rest in the Tier-3 pages. By doing so, web pages with the profitable keywords are able to enjoy maximum exposure.

Build Web Pages With WYSIWYG Softwares

By now you must already have a concrete web structure. Remember it by heart because you are about to build a website that will make money 24/7. What left is just a great content that will makes your website stands out than the rest. From now on, focus on building great contents and keep on creating them so that the visitors able to keep in touch with you in the long run.

However, you need a website builder that able to connect your contents with the visitors into a presentable or user-friendly format. You can start building your profitable website with Site Build It. In fact, it comes with paid keyword research tool, hosting, domain names, auto-responder and marketing tips for free. You don't have to worry about how to build website from scratch without HTML knowledge anymore.

When choosing the best content management system for your project, it is important to weigh both the technical and non-technical pros and cons. Both technical and non-technical reasons can ultimately affect the bottom line cost. Therefore, it is not recommended to simply choose a content management system based solely on technical language or feature set. In this article, we will take a look at an open source content management system called Radiant CMS.

Radiant is a Ruby on Rails based solution that works with a variety of databases. It has a few years of development and a couple noteworthy deployments. There are technical and non-technical reasons why Radiant CMS is a good choice for a content management system.

Technical Reasons to Choose Radiant CMS: It's Ruby on Rails based which can speed development by taking advantage of the convention over configuration paradigm. In addition, the Radiant code base has excellent automated coverage in unit tests. This means the code is well tested and robust. Unit test code coverage can be one aspect to measure when considering open source content management systems. In fact, we could suggest the amount of code covered by automated unit and integration tests should be considered when choosing any open source library and/or framework. It is an easy indicator to measure and compare. But, that is an entirely different conversation.

Radiant CMS also has an excellent extension system. This allows customizations required by your project to be made. When choosing a content management system, the ability to add and maintain any customizations should be an important factor. This point should be considered not only from the beginning, but how your customizations will evolve as upgrades and enhancements occur within your chosen content management system. In other words, if the core CMS is modified to provide the custom functionality, how can upgrades or patches from the core CMS developers be applied to your modified version. Radiant's extension system provides this separation of concern.

The Radius tagging system of Radiant is fantastic for adding dynamic functionality. It is nice that tags can be added directly to page content rather than some kind of comment or special character sequence in order to indicate non-static content.

Non-Technical Reasons to Choose Radiant CMS: Radiant has an elegant, intuitive administrative interface. It is not intimidating to the non-technical user. In fact, the design encourages people to embrace using the system, because they assume it is going to be easy to pick up and learn.

The lack of workflow functionality can be considered a feature in many cases. In competing CMS products, workflow can seem like an attractive feature at first, but is often hindrance to configure and work around for projects which require only a few administrators of content.

An additional, non-technical reason to choose Radiant CMS is cost. The project is open source and the community of ruby on rails developers and ruby on rails hosting providers is growing, so your cost risk of obtaining these resources is minimized.

Conclusion

From a technical perspective, the open source, Ruby on Rails based Radiant CMS makes an excellent choice. From a non-technical perspective, Radiant CMS makes an excellent choice as well. When combining both perspectives, we have had many positive project experiences and deployments using Radiant over the past year and a half.