What should you charge for web development?

Are you new to charging for your services? When is it okay to charge more? How can some developers get away with charging $150/hour? Let me try my best to answer some of these questions. I’ve been freelancing since 2002, while I am not an expert on this, I do have quite a bit of experience on this matter. Here is how I determine what to charge a client. 1. Determining your hourly rate Here is...

A simple way to hide your wordpress website until launch.

Recently I had to revamp a website for a client. The website was using Word Press to power it and so I had to do some template editing that would make the website look very broken while I was experimenting. What I did was stop Word Press from running at all unless a get request happened. To do this you must first find “index.php” in the root folder on your blog. It should look empty aside...

PHP Function: remove special characters from post data

Since I began programming 6 years ago I always had trouble with collecting data from forms. Users tend to copy and paste data into them, capturing special characters in the process. The special chars then end up in the mysql data as some random garbage, then it appears on the website as weird symbols. A while back I asked a programmer friend of mine if he had a function that would help out with this....

Intro to PHP: 01 “the echo”

If your just getting into PHP you first need to know how it works. PHP actually creates HTML on the server side before the user loads the page. PHP is in charge of checking for arguments, getting data from databases and sending emails. PHP is also capable of much more if modules are installed on the server. Getting your feet wet: What you need to know: HTML FTP An understanding of how web servers...