Back in January 2009 I did a somewhat new year suprise to you all and made the new 2009 theme, "Renovatio" for James' Blog more of a suprise than anything as I'd been developing the theme and did not make any post about it, and one day *poof* new theme to James' Blog and I got very good responces from people saying it was a good improvement and they really liked it, but the theme took longer than expected because of display issues in different browsers. Which brings me onto a somewhat article/rant about browsers.

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I've just finished the new multiple level navigation bar for the site. This change comes after I realised im providing content such as tutorials, resources etc but the only way to view these is either searching for them or look through archives and by referrals from other sites, but to take advantages of the this I've decided to intergrate a multiple level navigation into the current navigation bar and provide a much more extensive navigation. It's nothing to fancy just using drop downs via list but there is a little bit jQuery being used for the fade effects, but nothing to heavy on the code front

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Your Localhost is very nearly complete, we've installed Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I breifly talked about the ability to modify and change MySQL databases. Well phpMyAdmin can do just that, this tool allows you to do this, it helps you manage your MySQL database in a nicely presented admin panel which you can easily change tables, prefixes and much more. This tool is a must if you plan on creating databases on your localhost

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In part two, we installed almightly PHP language onto our localhost, with that you can now run php scripts and code offline on your localhost, but for example what if you want to test a script that needs a database your basically stuck aren't you? Well to handle databases there's something called MySQL, this is simple a relation database management system and is present on most web-servers avaliable today. MySQL allows you to create and modify (To a certain extent) databases on a server, and lucky you, it can be installed on a localhost! We will be installing the MySQL service and getting it to run with your localhost.

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Thats a quote that my life resolves around alot. Last night I was working on my IT Coursework on Task 3 of the coursework booklet. The task is to create a quotation system in Microsoft Excel for a carpet company called DM carpets, after you have created the quotation system with all of the relative formulae and formulas you then have to screenshot each part of the quotation system and show evidence of how It works. I was doing this last night and managed to get 5 pages of explianation. After I finished I saved the document (As you do) but I'd sent the work home via a email attachment and realised I was editing the attachment document, I hadn't saved it to my computer it was just being opened off the attachment.

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