In a recent article, we saw how easy it is to get a web server up and running on Windows with PHP, IIS, and SQL Server Express using the Web Platform Installer. In this article, Akash explains how to use those tool together to build a simple web app.

Buying your first website property can certainly be daunting, especially if you’re unsure how to go about investigating your potential purchase. Flippa.com’s new marketing manager, Luke Moulton, walks us through the due diligence behind a sample website purchase to show us the ropes.

When your site or application grows beyond what can be supported with shared or even VPS hosting, perhaps it’s time to look for a dedicated server. Countless companies provide dedicated hosting, and the features of their offerings can be difficult to untangle. In this week’s article, Khurram guides us through ten different entry-level plans and points out their pros and cons to help you make an informed decision.

Whether you’re in an entry-level position or you own your own business, there are important concepts that you should integrate into your working life. As well as increasing your value in the job market, it also enhances your worth to your current employer. In this article, Chris covers the top five tips for being a kick-ass employee.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Flash was the only way you can add cool interactive graphs to a website. In this week’s article, Alex shows us just how far this is from the truth, introducing us to the excellent gRaphaël graphing library for JavaScript.

Yahoo’s YUI JavaScript library has a wealth of components that work well together to create impressive user interfaces. In this article, Darrin shows us how easy it is to leverage YUI’s TreeView component, in order to create a dynamic expanding tree control that loads content via Ajax.

Web development frameworks enable you to build highly functional applications very quickly, and are increasingly seen as a must for any new project. Python-based Django bills itself as “the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines,” and after following along with Akash’s crash course, I think you’ll have to agree!

In this final installment of his Data Visualization with Flex series, Toby builds on the work from the first two parts to take our visualization to the next level. The final product allows you to visualize how often various tech key words are used on the SitePoint forums, and how they are connected. Even if you’re new to the series, it’s worth having a look to see the visualization in action!

Multilingual marketing should be considered in every international marketing initiative. Yet, when it comes to web site localization, most businesses only go so far in creating a literal translation of their English copy. In this article, Christian demonstrates why SEO should be implemented in every language on the Web. If you fail to localize your translated text, you stand to do your business a great disservice.

In part I of this series, Toby showed us how to extract a subset of useful information from a truly massive set of raw data: nearly all the posts from the SitePoint forums! In part II, we’ll set about turning that data into a useful visualization, showing how often keywords are used in an impressive, interactive graph.