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Ask HN: Essentials for Web Development?

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Post by Aeiper » Tue, May 07, 2013, 3:31 AM UTC

What do you think are the essential concepts, languages, and resources necessary for creating a great website.

Re: Ask HN: Essentials for Web Development?

Post by Aeiper » Tue, May 07, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

I personally think that PHP and MySQL are essential for making websites that use profiles for users and shopping carts.

Post by waltz » Tue, May 07, 2013, 4:30 AM UTC

A good text editor/ftp client/terminal

Post by xtraclass » Tue, May 07, 2013, 10:01 AM UTC

html 5, css javascript jquery

on the server side either java or ruby on raily or groovy on grails or node.js or whatever makes sense for you there

security issues (client side, server side) accessibility

ux (user experience) - you need an expert for thast

web design graphics

good operations team

experts for performance and scalability