In developing your webpage, you may find that you want to keep track of how many people have viewed a post, which means you need to create a counter. Once made, you'll probably want to lock it down so a simple page refresh doesn't increase the views; this could mess up the accuracy of page statistics. Using sessions, we can thwart these types of actions. read more

jQuery is a javascript library developed to make adding effects to websites very simple. A very popular option that you will find on websites is a link at the bottom of a page that says "top." When you click it, it will bring you to the top of the page very quickly. We can use jQuery to spice up this action my making the page scroll smoothly back to the top. read more

A popular extra for articles and posts to have on a website is tags, one- or two-word descriptive items that associate the post content with a broader category, such as an article about Obama being tagged as president, white house, government, etc. This article will walk you through a simple design for implementing tags for your posts. read more