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So you want a website. Chances are you have a pretty good (if somewhat vague) idea of what you want it to do, how you want it to do it, and maybe even what it should look like while it's doing it. And chances are you want a web firm that can give you what you want. But why do you want what you want? Do you want it because it's what you like, or because you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it's what your users will want? If it's the first, then you might just be setting yourself up for failure.

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People seem to ask this question a lot. When you’re learning something, it’s comforting to know that you’re doing it correctly and efficiently and that you’re not learning the wrong way or the long way.

Therefore, once and for all, here’s our official 1 minute guide to learning Drupal.

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Do you know which web browser you're using? If so, do you know which version of that browser you're using? These two questions consume the working lives of web developers everywhere. We can name the top five browsers (and quite a few more), along with the approximate current market share of each, the most recent version of each, the rendering engine of each (i.e., what they're using under the hood), the features supported or unsupported in each, and we can probably rank them in order of speed.

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Google finally threw in the towel with Wave, saying that adoption rates just weren’t as they hoped. Many have said that Wave’s fail was that it launched as an invitation based service, which meant that you couldn’t really use it because Wave can only be used with other Wave users, and none of your friends had been invited yet. However, that’s not the reason.

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Calling software "free" can mean two things:

• Free as in beer (i.e., you don't have to pay for it)
• Free as in speech (i.e., you can do whatever you want with it)

Once upon a time, most software was neither of those. Now, a lot of apps are both.

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