In our latest web design video blog, Nick and I talk about Dreamweaver Templates (.dwt) and PHP Includes for website design. We give a basic overview on Dreamweaver Templates and compare methods with PHP Includes. The video then continues with a demonstration using the download-able ZIP file below.
The video then concludes with ‘WhatTheFont’ on myfonts.com. This useful tool allows you to upload a graphic that the website analyses and trys to identify the name of the typeface for you.
I work as Web designer and use PHP for developing most of my websites. I find using php includes as an excellent method to keep the code clean and logical. In addition to keeping the code of a page smaller and more manageable, php includes also allows me to re-use code. Most professionally written code e.g popular open source application make heavy use of include statements for this very reason.