There are two things that can (rightfully) drive a web designer insane with rage: 1) Clients who refuse to pay, and 2) Scumbags who steal your work and pass it off as their own, especially for profit. A local central coast company, KV Web Solutions, appears to have done both to a coworker of mine.

What's the saying about code? Written today, forgotten tomorrow? As developers, we all like to think that simply because we wrote something, we know exactly how it works, but even the best of us can look back on something we've written a month ago and have to take a few minutes to figure out exactly what we were thinking at the time. Then, there's the possibility that other developers will be working with your code. In this case, poorly commented code can cause major headaches for otherwise easy fixes. In this article, I'm going to discuss a couple things you can do when writing PHP in order to make your life, and the lives of developers working with your code, a lot easier.

My latest personal project, The Spirit Beast is a World of Warcraft gaming site/blog that runs on the same custom framework as this portfolio. Features include full site functionality including user authentication, error/form handling and validation, user management, commenting, blog, user preferences, pagination and much more. Front-end work also includes javascript and jQuery with javascript fall-back functionality for users with higher security settings. You can find out more about it and view some gallery shots at the portfolio page!

View Project: The Spirit Beast

Welcome to the new Panda Designs website. With this launch, I've included a lot of new features including a blog/commenting system, user account authentication/management (including user submitted avatars), error handling, and of course content to answer any questions about what my qualifications are and what I do. I've added several new projects to the portfolio section, and while you'll see some benefit from using javascript, I've provided javascript roll-back functionality for users with it turned off - you'll still be able to access all the content here regardless of your browser's security.