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Yonti.co.uk has now become a new Blog for the web industry, covering topics such as Web Infrastructure and Programming.

What’s Happened to the Original Yonti?

Yonti.co.uk has not changed hand’s or been sold, it is still owned by Yonti. The major difference is the blog is now our front for the moment. Services and Projects are likely to be launched over the next few months, but they will not affect the location or the service of the blog.

Yonti.co.uk will continue to offer hosting to customers, but this service is now only available by request and email. In the future some web related service or projects may be released under the Yonti brand. Notice of these will be advertised on this blog. When a project is released it will either be on a separate or sub- domain.

We currently looking for talented writers and authors to keep this blog updated and interesting.  If you would like to contribute to Yonti.co.uk, PM me with a sample article and we will get back to you with in 24/48 hours.

We offer a minimum of $20 (£15) for short (250 - 500 words) but quality articles, and up to $100(£70) for a longer (1000 word+) article. Multi-page articles and tutorials can receive more depending on quality, length, relevance and other factors.

With your help we can make this a successful and useful blog for many, not only do you earn some extra cash for a little writing, you also have a chance to have your work seen by thousands. All it needs is a few good to great articles and the site will gain in popularity, along with your content.

wordpress?! tsk, I want it hand made with CI or I aint interested!
on a more serious note, good luck with this Tom, there’s a lot of competition out there.

I know, the only reason I used wordpress is for speed and ease. I love CI, would use it if I had the time to create something as fully featured are wordpress.

EDIT: If any one has any ideas for tutorials, that we should cover, give us a shout. This site is for the community so any input will help, create a better website.

PM me with you suggestions and I will see about implementing them. If you have a tutorial you have written and would like on the site PM me and it could be worth $20+.

EDIT 2: In particular we are looking for some good CI tutorials on the following topics:
- Creating a simple application in CI
- ACL and CI
- Writing a simple Library for CI
- Writing a simple Hook for CI
- ...

We need your ideas. CI related posts are worth $25 minimum.

Update:

We have just launched our first tutorial for anyone who interested, in learning the Basics of PHP. This tutorial will be part of a series of PHP tutorials teaching the basics of php, progressing on to some more harder yet interesting topics.

I know this topic, will be of no interest to most of you as your all experienced developers, but as the series continues the topics will get more advanced and interesting.

We are still looking for writers, mainly to write about CI. If possible we would like a similar tutorial series, to the PHP one we are currently producing.

Hi Tom,

this looks like a nice tutorial. There’s a typo in the title (“Breif” instead of “Brief”).

I’m interested in the technique you use for syntax coloring the code snippets. I guess it’s some php script that does some regex search and replace to add the right css classes?

Also, I’d be interested in a Textmate tutorial for PHP coders.

Cheers,
maesk

Were using the WordPress plugin CodeColorer, which is powered by the GeSHi library.

We will look into writing a Textmate tutorial for PHP, soon. If you have time, and would like to earn a quick $20 - $100 then you could submit one to us.

Thanks for the info. That GeSHi library sure looks powerful. I could use it for some documentation I’m currently working on. Although, thinking about it now, I’d prefer a client-side solution like a JavaScript equivalent to GeSHi.

About TextMate, I don’t think I can write a tutorial on it, the thing is, I just got started on TextMate and find it a little hard to memorize all the shortcuts. I’m sure it’s worth learning it even though the learning curve is a little steep. But at the moment I’m still faster coding with Dreamweaver. The tutorial videos on the official site don’t really cover a lot of what I’m interested in (or let’s say they cover a lot that I don’t really need) and the “TextMate Basics Tutorial” (which is very good) contains about 500 essential keyboard shortcuts. That’s why I think a tutorial covering just the basics for web development with TextMate would be useful.

But I might think of another tutorial that I could write for Yonti.

No Problem, Thanks for the feedback guys. So far we have a had a few requests for tutorials, we will try to write these as quickly as possible, but quality takes time, so it could be upto 3 weeks until your requested tutorial arrives on the site.

Ony 500 essential keyboard shortcuts?

Ony 500 essential keyboard shortcuts?

Yes, that’s right, but you know, that’s just the basics…