Hi,

I’ve update my beginners tutorial on object oriented PHP adding steps 12-17. I cover two new basic OO concepts in these steps:

• Constructors.
• Access modifiers.

Again this is a code intensive article where I expect you to follow along with your PHP editors.

More to come.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killerphp.com
www.killersites.com

Hi,

I just released part 1 of a two part tutorial that teaches object oriented PHP to total beginners.

The tutorial is made up of 23 simple steps where you will learn practical OO PHP.

From the tutorial:

This tutorial is designed to teach total beginners object oriented PHP.

This is not a long-winded theoretical blathering that you see all too often; instead, we actually start writing OO code very quickly.

… I believe that this ‘hands-on’ style of learning, makes understanding OO (object oriented) PHP much easier … and less boring too!

So before you begin, get out your favorite PHP code editor and be ready to write and run some object oriented PHP code.

Object Oriented PHP Tutorial

I hope you guys find it useful.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com

Hi,

As some of you may know, I’ve been slowly working on a new set of video tutorials that teachs you how to start and run a small web design business.

You can find the videos posted here:

Business of Web Design video tutorial

I have had a few request for more details, so I decided to release a PDF document that outlines the videos. This is still a work in progress … any comments would be appreciated.

PDF: business-of-web-design-project-plan.pdf

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com

Hi,

With some of my post, I try to come up with a story to add a little ‘color’ my writing…. my mother complains when I don’t.

Unfortunately, unless you want to hear about the ongoing saga of my teeth, I haven’t much to say.

OK, I have something to say:

One thing that painful teeth have taught me; take care of little things before they turn into big things. Otherwise you risk an expensive and painful punishment for being lazy.

Which reminds me of an expression (I think?) I came up with:

“You either pay now … or you pay later with interest!”

Keep that in mind in all aspects of life.

Onto things nerd-like:

We made some good progress getting the new free video tutorial website up and running – www.idea22.com.

We now have a cool new interface that allows you to quickly browse through the last 50 videos. We’ve fixed a lot of bugs and polished up the look of the site overall. You should also check out the full-screen view of the videos – I think they are the sharpest on the Web.

That’s all well and good, but what’s in it for you? Well, we got a bunch of new videos up on things like:

* – Web design
* – PHP
* – Photoshop

I invite you to take a look, join up and please comment on the videos and the site. We are still doing a lot of work and your input will help us build a better web site.

Some specific pages:

http://www.idea22.com/video/details/id/200708147122666750

http://www.idea22.com/video/details/id/200708082373232020

A few of videos are actually from the killersites.com archive … buried deep in killersites.com. I am moving them all to idea22.com over the next little while so they are easy to find.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

Youtube is the new big thing on the Web. But you have to wonder why Youtube got so big so fast?

… Consider that there are web sites that have existed long before Youtube and did the exact same thing – user generated videos/video sharing.

As a web designer/web developer, my first instinct would be to look at:

1. Functionality
2. Usability

I found that Youtube is very good in both camps (for the most part,) but so are several other video sharing sites.

The answer to Youtube’s success:

Youtube went to the top because of content.

Unfortunately, the content that drives Youtube is the content that the other big video sharing sites (ethically) removed from their websites – all the professionally produced videos.

.. We all like to see videos of cats falling off tables once in a while, but let’s be honest, most of us go to Youtube to see copyrighted videos:

• The Daily Show
• Colber Report
• Family Guy

… etc.

While the other video sharing sites removed copyrighted material, Youtube turned a blind eye (at least that is what I think,) and Youtube saw its’ traffic skyrocket.

So now Youtube is being sued left and right … they deserve it. If someone was selling ad space from an audience largely attracted by my hard work (not that would ever happen …) I would be pretty pissed off.

Side note:

My relatively simple video tutorials take a while to produce: you are taking about 5-7 hrs of work (easily) for every hour of video!

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Google says (Google bought Youtube) that in September it will introduce its’ video filtering technology and flush out the stolen content. I wonder if Youtube’s traffic will go the way of Napster?

Just in case you forget; Napster was the big name in music sharing (again stolen content,) until they were sued and forced to remove all the big-name songs. Napster has since fallen off the radar … no content.

Content is King:

That was the first rule of web design I learned back in 1994: content is king. You have to have good usability etc .. but at the end of the day, a web site needs good content.

… And that (my nerd friends,) is what Youtube and Napster can teach us about the Web.

Thanks for reading,

Stefan Mischook

www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com