What are the best options for quickly developing web applications? I'm looking for something as fast as possible to set up and get running, instead of getting bogged down in setup and configuration details. [more inside]
posted by meowzilla on Apr 18, 2013 - 11 answers

Durrrrrrr... What's a startup? [more inside]
posted by Sara C. on Aug 21, 2012 - 43 answers

I'm a web developer, and I'm growing concerned that somewhere down the line from my career, I'll be passed over for jobs because of younger people. Is this concern justified, and if so, what steps can I take to prevent it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 18, 2012 - 19 answers

I'm looking for practice-oriented websites and blogs about web development. Specifically, I'm interested in writing pertaining to Python, Django, and front-end techniques (HTML5/CSS/Javascript), though a bit of PHP/Wordpress-specific info couldn't hurt. Examples inside. Help learn me, please! [more inside]
posted by nosila on Aug 8, 2012 - 3 answers

In what order should I learn technologies for web development? There're so many! [more inside]
posted by jasondbarr on Jan 21, 2012 - 21 answers

Im looking for some advice and suggestions on the best way to structure a project. My client has 4 products (SAS) and although they are related most people would only use one due to the specialist nature of each. Currently only one of these products has a website and there is no main company website. They are looking to introduce a main company website either incorporating each of the 4 products within it or having a separate company site and each product has its own separate site with the main company site acting as a knowledge base to establish them as an authority in field they work in. Im wondering what the best approach would be from a usability point of view and an SEO points of view? I guess from an SEO point of view each product sitting on its own domain and being targeted to certain keyphrases might be more preferential than one site will all the content in? Im wondering if anyone knows of any examples out there that handle this particularly well
posted by toocan on Nov 19, 2010 - 3 answers

I want to build a relatively simple website in two weeks. Problem: I have no idea how. [more inside]
posted by hypocritical ross on Nov 18, 2010 - 11 answers

What should I learn/do to improve my chances of getting a web-related job/be a successful freelancer? [more inside]
posted by Memo on Sep 21, 2010 - 4 answers

Always desiring to experience living in Japan, I moved in the country from Canada almost a year ago on a working holiday visa, which will expire next month. My life here is stable so far, including a job at a company willing to sponsor me for a work visa. I want to live in Japan for a longer period, but the problem is I don't seem to meet the requirements for a visa. I am aware that getting married is the easiest way, but unfortunately, I do not have that possibility. Is there anything I can do to stay and work in Japan longer? [more inside]
posted by remi on Sep 15, 2010 - 18 answers

Which HTML/CSS/JS IDE do I want? [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 on Oct 27, 2009 - 16 answers

Can you give me any pointers on learning web development? Unlike other similar questions in the archives (1, 2), I have a lot of programming experience. I haven't really followed web programming practices closely, however, because without keeping closely involved, it has been hard to sort out useful stuff from buzzwords and fads. (Non-web programming has enough of those!) [more inside]
posted by silentbicycle on Jun 8, 2009 - 11 answers

How to render image like in google picasaweb?: I'm developing a web page. If I use img tag to put image in the web page, while loading the page, image loads very slowly (especially large images). Also the upper part of image is loaded first and then the lower part, as page is downloaded from server. But in applications like google picasa, a very low quality version is rendered first, so that you see the whole image at once (even though its blurred), slowly as the page is downloaded, image becomes sharper. How can I implement this functionality in my web page? Can someone please point me to helpful resources regarding this?
posted by tvjoshi on Apr 15, 2008 - 10 answers

For the web developers in the house: when viewing the generated code for a web page, the Document Type Definition is missing. Where does it go? [more inside]
posted by josephtate on Feb 22, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm seeking advice on how to mange small website development and maintenance projects with a remote contractor. [more inside]
posted by namith on Jul 25, 2007 - 5 answers

Javascript Noob: I need to move one div inside of another div that is elsewhere on the page. How do I do this? [more inside]
posted by Freen on Feb 24, 2007 - 3 answers

I'm looking around for a simple tool to help manage file pushes to a website/web application. Is there such-a-thing as "Release Management" software? [more inside]
posted by alan on Dec 7, 2006 - 9 answers

Any suggestions for tools to build backgrounds and buttons/icons for web sites? [more inside]
posted by brokekid on Apr 22, 2006 - 3 answers

How do I convince someone to fully "hand over" (to the public, not to me specificallY) a now dead, open source but not totally "open licensed" project. Furthermore, how do I find people who might want to work on its revival? [more inside]
posted by twiggy on Dec 29, 2005 - 6 answers

A friend of mine is starting a business and needs to find some hard core developers. How should he go about looking for them? [more inside]
posted by nyterrant on Jun 2, 2005 - 17 answers

Is there any web-based service that will image (render) a webpage using specific rendering engines, and then email or display the result? I'm developing on a Mac, and experiencing some weird Explorer 6 CSS problems, and don't have a PC handy to troubleshoot.
posted by jpburns on Jan 24, 2005 - 10 answers

I know how to make database-driven web sites using Windows servers, Access, IIS, and ASP.

I want to learn how to do the same using Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and... whatever you use instead of Access.

Where do I start?
posted by Mwongozi on Dec 10, 2004 - 18 answers

I've knocked up a website which is modifed from some of the templates from the layout reservoir. However the top bar which contains the image is causing problems under some browsers (IE6 and Firefox being two) because the height doesn't match the image height which means that the text is obscured. Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by ralawrence on May 13, 2004 - 9 answers

Web designers and developers: what's in your testing suite? Do I really need Mozilla, Netscape, Camino and Firefox, or is one Mozilla-based browser enough? How much do they vary across platforms and operating systems?
posted by timeistight on Mar 26, 2004 - 9 answers

Wanted: list of canonical, essential mailing lists/discussion groups for web development, a lá css-discuss. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by weston on Feb 5, 2004 - 3 answers

I have been looking at changing my web development focus from Windows/ASP/.NET to LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) because my gut is telling me that this is where things are going. Oh, Java should be in there as well.

What's the skinny on LAMP in the real world (Netcraft surveys aside)? Is it difficult to change to LAMP/Java? Is the open source thing really sticking?
posted by grefo on Jan 9, 2004 - 14 answers