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Mom Can Maker her Own Website It used to be that you had to build every function from the ground up when it came to web design and development. Every little thing that you saw on the screen required lines and lines of coding to display. Java made life a little easier when it was released in 1995. It revolutionized the style of web programming by adding in the semantic conventions made available in C++. These functions were intuitive and easy to grasp. Once you knew how to use a function, the programming time was reduced drastically.

The Introduction of CSS Shortly thereafter, CSS was introduced to the world as an even more intuitive programming language. This language was developed to be the developers' favorite because of its simplicity. The developer had but to define an area in an intuitive way, and the program would remember it. Editing was simple because finding the color function was to simply right "text_color:" and then define what color you wanted to use (in words, RGB, #, or CMYK), making it convenient. Many of the things you would have to define separately are preset for you. It simplifies the process and makes the coding easier to read, and therefore easier to troubleshoot. It's simple, and yet, it is infinitely customizable. CSS continues to grow in popularity the more that people get involved in their own web design. More and more people are getting involved in web design and development because recent programs have made it easy to get into. Programs like Drupal and WordPress make it possible for anyone to make a nice, functioning website, even Mom could do it. The people who make these programs took the time to create an extensive interface that contains prebuilt functions to do the things you want them to do. Every grid has been prebuilt, so all you have to do is put content in the "header" area of the program for it to show up at the top. When you create a new page, the program makes a new web address and hyperlinks the page to your navigation bar. This means that the page is clickable from the navigation bar of every page. Should you want to add a blog feed, the add-ons are there. All you have to do is tell WordPress where you want to pull the blog from.


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