Just because Content Management Systems are easy to use, should they be used on every website? Of course not. Here are some examples of websites where they wouldn’t be very useful.
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Broadly defined, a Content Management System (or CMS, for short) is a means by which to allow non-technical users to add and update content on a website. The most basic feature is a simple text editor; depending on the CMS, they can include much more complex functionality.
What if we turned American political elections into American Idol-style showdowns? It may sound crazy at first, but hear me out.
While looking at the itinerary for a trip to North Korea, I noticed that payments have to be made via PayPal. That’s odd… Isn’t PayPal an American company?
The Google Chrome team recently announced that they would be dropping support for the H.264 video codec within the next couple of months. What? Why?
You’re probably aware that there are plenty of different image file formats out there. JPEG, GIF, PNG, EPS, PDF, TIFF, SVG, BMP… The list goes on and on. A lot of people don’t realize what the major differences are between the different formats, or why they should choose one over another for any given image. So, here’s the answer.
You hear about it all the time: American corporations pay a few cents an hour to Chinese laborers to make the products we buy every day. We hate it on principle, but we still buy the products because we don’t have a comparable alternative.
I spent a good deal of a weekend analyzing data about myself. Most of it was financial (i.e. every transaction I made in 2010), but I also looked at some health-related data. I rather enjoy this type of granular data, and I thought I’d share some pieces of it with you today.
Time for a prediction. I know it’s uncool, but I’m going to say that Facebook hype isn’t going to last much longer.