Meryl's Notes Blog

This book review has the distinction of being the first php Web page on meryl.net. If you want to learn more about the people behind it, check out their Backup Brain.

Wow… I really won something! A few weeks ago, I started receiving a fun newsletter called Who Knew? from Nerdy Books that covers tips and tricks using everyday software such as MS Word, MS Excel, Operating Systems, and more. They have a great contest in each issue where you have to figure out how to accomplish the task in the fewest number of steps. Somehow, I pulled it off and was the winner of the September 27 challenge.

Webreference Newsletter - 404

Webreference Thursday newsletter covers 404. Gosh, I’ve been meaning to create a personalized 404 page, but shame on me — I haven’t gotten to that yet. Well, does learning CSS and PHP make up for it? Anyway, back to four-oh-four. I explained in a previous iBizBasic why it is called 404 and not “error page” or “666″ (sometimes we feel it’s more of a 666 than a 404!). The article covers 404 error handlers and options for implementation. I like the 404 page the authors, students at Michigan State University, created for the college. They take you through the steps of creating a 404 error handler using Apache and IIS. I learned how to do it in Apache when I took a Web server class and it was actually fun.