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Questions tagged [web-development]

Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet.

Typically web development refers to the main non-design aspects of building web sites: writing markup and coding. It includes:

  • Web design,
  • Client-side scripting,
  • Server-side scripting,
  • Web servers,
  • Web content management,
  • Web applications, and
  • e-commerce development

Feel free to apply the tag to questions on any of these topics.

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What technical details should a programmer of a web application consider before making the site public?

What things should a programmer implementing the technical details of a web application consider before making the site public? If Jeff Atwood can forget about HttpOnly cookies, sitemaps, and cross-site request forgeries all in the same site, what…
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Web versus desktop development - is web development worse?

As a longtime desktop developer looking at doing our first large-scale web application, what are the pros and cons of doing web development? Is developing a web application much worse than developing a desktop app? E.g., is it more tedious or…
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Best approach to learning web programming

I come from a scientific and embedded programming background, and I have had minimal experience with web programming. What would be the best approach to take to get up to speed with web programming? Tools and framework suggestions? One approach…
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Should I be paid for time spent learning a framework?

To give light to the situation: I am currently one of two programmers working in a small startup software company. Part of my job requires me to learn a Web development framework that I am not currently familiar with. I get paid by the hour. So the…
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What are the drawbacks of sending XML to browsers and let them apply XSLT?

Context Working as a freelance developer, I often made websites completely based on XSLT. In other words, on every request, an XML file is generated, containing everything we need to know about the page content: the name of the user currently logged…
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No programmer will build my semi-adult website. Why?

I've been looking for get this website done for a long time. I thought with a well organized write-up of what I wanted, as well as having clear examples done in photoshop of faux pages to give an idea of the vision, and no hidden surprises, I would…
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How to save a young and dying project?

I am posting this anonymously because I don't want to get into potential trouble. I have a big problem. I recently joined a team that is less than a year old. I have been here since a month in to the project started. The company structure looks…
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Why do I find it so hard to share my work?

I've done some application out there, coding is not the problem. But when it comes to deploying / communicating / sharing with colleagues and friends, I'm like stuck. I feel I'm going to be humiliated because there are bugs, and people will not use…
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Is it possible to work with distrusting clients

One of our junior developers has been assigned a new client (we don't have the client yet, we're still working with him to see if we can meet his needs) and the junior developer said the client will hire us if we can do the work on his project…
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Should you really keep your js, html and css separate?

I hear/read all the time that it is cleaner to keep your js, html and css separated. Supposedly it makes it more easy to maintain, debug. Supposedly it is more efficient, because it allows caching/minifying css and js files. As far as I am…
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How do I get up-to-date on web development technologies?

I'm a regular user here, but linking my screen name to my real identity is dirt simple, and the question I'm about to ask would lead to a very unpleasant conversation with my current employer were they to see it. So, my apologies for this…
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Do you need to pay $100 a month for a Server when building a website?

Do you need a virtual or dedicated Server when simply coding? Would you be able to build a website from scratch from your on PC and take a Server only one day befor going live in Beta?
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Why can people expect hardware/software requirements on software applications, but it's not for web applications?

Questions revolving around ways of getting customers to embrace new web technology / browsers so one can deliver better web software to the end user. It's hard to manage expectations of customers. Expectations such as: Websites should work on older…
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What is a good start for small web-design projects?

What are the most common templates, languages, web-design tools that you recommend for me to be able to start web-design? I do software but I have not not had web-design experience, I have been a Win32 developer with VB 6.0, Delphi, C#,etc.., not…
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How do I verify that a user really works for the company they signed up as?

I am building a website that will allow companies to sign up and post information and have an internal network, but what is the best way to verify that the person that is filling in the sign up form really belongs to the company they say they do, as…
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