Yep, I finally got around to adding a LinkedIn company profile.  Check it out. http://www.linkedin.com/companies/upwebdesign-llc

When setting a field in a MySQL database to be NULL by default you may run into NULL values in your dataset when querying the database.  You cannot simply check if a variable is set using the isset() function in PHP because it returns false for NULL values.  To remedy this issue you can use [...]

I have been thinking about adding a section to the site for designs and templates.  In this section you will have free, exclusive, limited, and unlimited designs. Free: meaning this can be downloaded at no cost as many times as users want with no premium. Exclusive: meaning this can only be downloaded once for a [...]

Have you ever created a page that has hidden div containers that are activated by a link that has a slide down effect on it?  In case you haven’t there is a slight problem when displaying content that needs to be shown and slid down when the trigger is at the bottom of the browser [...]

For about 2-3 hours I was sifting through the support forums and blogs throughout the web and was not able to find a fix for this weird bug/feature in the WordPress (there were a few fixes but none of them worked for this instance).

Lets say you have a developer that needs to work on one of the sites that you are hosting on your web server in your basement and you don’t want them to have free range to everything on the box.  Another piece of this is you really don’t want the user to have SSH access [...]

UPWebDesign.com makeover announcement.

I never really thought about using a framework for PHP.  Mostly because I know PHP’s native functions well enough to create anything I needed from scratch.  The problem is time consumption with repetitive code and writing it out every time I needed it.