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Web Designers Roadmap for 2011
June 26, 2011

Web Designers Roadmap
June 2011 – By: Stefan MischookThe skills required in modern web design are constantly changing … that’s because the Web itself is always changing. If you want to be successful as either a web professional (web designer / programmer) or as web site owner, you have to keep up!
What to learn (as of 2011-2012) – in order of priority:
1. HTML
2. CSS
3. PHP basics
4. Javascript
5. JQuery
6. Wordpress
7. OOP PHP (for programmers only)
8. HTML 5 and CSS 3
9. iPad / iPhone (choice of either: Objective C or HTML 5 + CSS 3)Comments
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Software used in Learning Web Design and Building Websites
January 5, 2012
Hello Everyone!!
Once in a while I use an email conversation as a blog post – I get good questions from people all the time. So, in this email, someone wanted to know about software used in building web sites – check it out:… This is the 60 thousand dollar question that [...]
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Youtube Upgrades HTML 5 video player as it moves to replace Flash.
November 22, 2011

It seems that Google and Youtube are moving quickly to replace the Flash video player; they just released a new HTML 5 video player for Youtube that does a bunch of things:
- annotations and captions
- copy embed code/URLs
- native full-screen support for Firefox and Chrome
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Building a CMS from Scratch
November 22, 2011

Every so often people ask about building a CMS (content management system) and so, I decided to included a snippet from an email I recently sent. One point I want to make clear; you can build a CMS using any server side programming language (PHP, Ruby, Java etc …) I just recommend PHP because I think that for most people out there, PHP makes sense.
From the email:
Before you can Build a CMS, you need to understand PHP basics … I would recommend either you get some of the basic PHP courses or you get our Complete Programmer package:
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Best Computer for Web Design?
November 17, 2011

I get this all the time:
Stef,
You’re a nerd and professional web designer, what computer would you recommend for someone wanting to get into the web design or web programming business?
My answer:
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Android Crushing iOS
November 15, 2011

Hey Nerds!
This just out: Android Market Share Doubles, iOS Drops In Q3
Check it out:
“Android’s share of the worldwide smartphone market was 52.3% for Q3, double what it was a year ago, according to fresh data from Gartner. Apple’s iOS dropped on a year over year basis to 15% market share for Q3.”


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