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What Do Web Developers Do Exactly?

YoungUpstarts

They make the internet the useful tool it is. Web developers need to have a wide range of skills and knowledge, including: Knowledge of various coding languages such as C+, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and HTML markup. They’re programmers, but instead of writing applications like a word processor or games, they write for the web.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Google+

YoungUpstarts

First of all, Google is the queen mother of all search engines. Secondly, Google has some really outstanding products that are attached to its search engine. That’s what happens when you put your company “out there” onto the Internet without giving a nod to Google. Bing and Yahoo! Who doesn’t have a Gmail account at this point?

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. University of Michigan : From the University of Michigan, you’ll get access to great programming courses including Computer Vision and Internet History, Technology, and Security.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. At that time, websites were built using a simple text editor and HTML was edited manually. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. You would upload files to the server as static Web pages.

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The Untold Benefits Of Optimizing Your Website For Mobile

YoungUpstarts

The Internet is an ever-changing beast, and it is in a business’ best interest to flow with it. Nowadays, the average Internet user is able to access the web in an array of different ways. You could use a responsive site which follows the same HTML and CSS as your traditional browser website. Improved User Experience.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

3- E-commerce Photo Credit: Carter Seuthe With the launch of 5G internet, I think eCommerce will boom in 2023. If you have a basic understanding of CSS, HTML, and JS and want to create a WordPress theme, you can do it with Bootstrap and then share it on GetBootstrap, even if you don't know much about WordPress.