I haven't done many PHP Tutorials recently so I decided I'd be writing a couple of PHP tutorials over the new few days, pretty basic stuff nothing complicated. In this tutorial were going to be learning about variables and numbers in PHP, im going to show you how they work and how you can use them, you'll also learn how to create your own variables and how to use pre-defined variables. You'll also see how they work and how you can apply them to future scripts that you may make in the future!

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Every tutorial I've done on navigation bars or menu's has been the normal one level navigation bar, but when you build a website you may feel the need to create sub categories, for example my blog houses various tutorials which are stored in categories, I have a drop down navigation bar on the main link, which is tutorials which then displays sub catergories and then the specific catergory e.g. Tutorials > XHTML > Basics in that example there are three levels. You can create navigation bar levels using lists, it's the easiest way to create a drop down menu but for styling it can get a bit tricky, but in this tutorial Im going to show you how to form a drop down navigation menu and then style it with CSS

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Following my last little article on WordPress plugins I can't live without, it made me remember something I'd done recently to my WordPress installation. If your a WordPress user which runs WordPress on a server rather than a wordpress.com hosted account then you'll understand that each time you install or remove a plugin you have to provide FTP information in order for WordPress to correctly locate the wp-content/plugins directory and get authorization to add or remove a plugin. This while small can become quite tedious, but did you know you can get WordPress to remember the FTP information forever? Which means you won't have to constantly keep typing in your password each time you add or remove a plugin!

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Any WordPress powered website isn't complete without WordPress plugins. Thanks to the brilliant community that surrounds WordPress there are a variety of plugins written by users of WordPress as well as developers. There are so many plugins out there but theirs a handful of plugins that I can't live without, and that are installed on James' Blog. Really, plugins and how useful they are to you or me is down to personal preference, but here's a list of a handful of plugins that I can't live without!

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Adding glow can make things look special or stand out and it can be applied to lots of different things. Glow can be used in website designs, to make something look just a little more special than the average look. In this case im going to use glow and apply it to a navigation bar to make look a little bit more 'Wow' than the average navigation bar, using nicely coloured gradients and bit of CSS magic, im going to show you how to achieve a real nice navigation effect, which looks smooth, sleak and with a few little extras to make it stand out.

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There are many different website layouts that are designed differently, many website layouts choose to have one or more sidebar, but a problem that you many encounter is how can you get the sidebar to be same length as your content? This is a good question, because if your sidebar ends before your content then your website layout will look strange. But there are methods of being able to achieve a sidebar that is the same height as your content. In this Quick CSS segment, im going to show you how you can achieve this effect, it's pretty simple and basic, but it's good to know!

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