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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

At that time, websites were built using a simple text editor and HTML was edited manually. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. WordPress was typically used by Web designers who learned to code or by self-taught developers. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.” The WWW is the presentation layer. It was a terrible user experience.

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

Image source ). Ultimately the CMS you choose will impact how quickly you can ship and test products, sales pages and design your site and content. In addition to a wide variety of plugins, WordPress also has thousands of themes to choose from to help you quickly build and design a site to your liking.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. They’ve released the Polymaps source code on GitHub so any developer can quickly see how the API is used, play around with real production code, and modify the base examples for their own use. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ?

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

Thanks to Apples iOS and Googles open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. SAY Medias Alex Schleifer is the lead designer for ReadWriteWebs re-design (currently in process) and his quote above captures why mobile websites are enjoying a renaissance.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Feld Thoughts

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. They felt the HTML/CSS book was so-so but it was enough to get them started.

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