The ABCs of Web Development
Web development can often be an utterly perplexing affair. Today, aimed at beginners, I’d like to introduce you to twenty six concepts or technologies, each mapping to a letter of the alphabet. Sounds wonky? It probably is! Let’s get started after the jump.
A — AJAX
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML and is the main driving force behind all these super smooth web applications you’ve been using over the past few years.
AJAX, as a technology, has been pretty much all pervasive. GMail? Check. Flickr? Check. eBay? Check. You can even find it in WordPress’ administration panel. So what exactly does it do and how does it do it?
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How to Maximize Profit From Your Personal Web Design Business
As the economic downturn continues, growing number of people are moving towards starting up their own personal business — which includes freelancers, independent contractors and other forms of self-employment.
Many try to thread this path out of necessity (for example, unemployment) while others choose this option to gain more time for themselves and for their families.
Web design is one of most popular personal business, due to its lower business start-up costs, lower relative risk associated with starting a personal business and advances in the Internet resulting to a proliferation of freelance web designers, developers and other web-related work.
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