Truth really can be stranger than fiction.

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La verdad puede ser más extraña que la ficción.

First Page - ¡Ya está en marcha! Todas las historias son verídicas, o están basadas en hechos reales. Lectura ilimitada por $4.99 / mes. No hay que descargar nada. Lea en su teléfono, tableta u ordenador.

Manna Minutes Podcast: Eye-opening Bible study in less than five minutes! Access all episodes here.

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Estudio bíblico que nos hace abrir los ojos en menos de cinco minutos! Acceda a todos los episodios aquí.

Manna Minutes Podcast auf Deutsch:

Augenöffnendes Bibelstudium in weniger als fünf Minuten! Alle Episoden finden Sie hier.

Was There A Curse On Helen's Romantic Life?

The Third Man by Angela Sheffield is based on a true story. Read chapter one now!

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¿Qué tiene que ver conmigo? por Teófila Gottfried

Lo que leemos en la Biblia tiene que ver con todos los seres humanos, sean cristianos o judíos, ateos o agnósticos, budistas, musulmanes o adherentes a alguna de las filosofías o nuevas religiones que surgen en el mundo. ¿Por qué? Ver mayor información sobre este interesante libro.

Scripture of The Day - St. John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Escritura del día - San Juan 14,6

Jesús le dijo: Yo soy el camino, y la verdad, y la vida; nadie viene al Padre, sino por mí.

Bibelstelle des Tages - Johannes 14,6

Jesus spricht zu ihm: Ich bin der Weg und die Wahrheit und das Leben; niemand kommt zum Vater, denn durch mich!

Web Development and Design: You Can Train Yourself

Most businesses today engage in e-commerce in order to maintain sales at a level high enough to generate profits and/or growth. Web developers are the people to contract when a professional, e-commerce enabled web site is desired. You can be the one that delivers them the web development and design services they need. Very small businesses that only offer a few items or services for sale may get by without the often costly services of a web developer. How? Simple "buy now" buttons can easily be incorporated into web sites. These "buttons" allow visitors to purchase one item, a service, a subscription, or even make a donation with a major credit card. This is not a good e-commerce solution for businesses offering a variety of items for sale. Why? Customers wishing to purchase 3 or 4 items would have to go through the checkout process 3 or 4 times. Shopping carts were created through scripting to avoid putting customers through such hassle.

The growth of e-commerce is only one of the reasons why skills in web development and design are very valuable. However, the field is fiercely competitive. Should those who are interested in a career as a web developer go to college and declare such a major? Not necessarily. The best computer programmers used to be self-taught. Although few web developers program in full blown languages such as C or Java unless they code Java server pages, they are, nevertheless, programmers. Interactivity, animation, and artificial intelligence on the Internet is achieved through programs (scripts) written in various languages.

What are some of the languages you should learn if you want to train in web development and design? It might be best to first ask, "What are the languages that every "real" web developer knows?" First, although (X)HTML is not a programming or even a scripting language, it is a mark-up language that every web developer and designer should know. Why? Don't programs like MS FrontPage eliminate the need to know (X)HTML?

It's true that there are a variety of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs out there for web development and design. However, there are times when a web developer needs to know how to work with the actual code behind a page. There are many good books on how to code in (X)HTML as well as free courses that are abundantly available on the Internet.

CSS (cascading style sheets) should be mastered by a web developer and designer who wants to focus on front-end development. CSS is the language used to maintain content separate from style. Again, there are a variety of good books, free web courses and tutorials on the subject.

Client-side Javascript is also a must even for front-end development (the visual side of things). It's somewhat deceiving to say that Javascript is easy to learn. It's easy to learn compared to learning languages like C or Java, but remove the comparison and it won't seem quite so easy to some students. One of the very best books teaching Javascript is Javascript: Concepts & Techniques - Programming Interactive Web Sites, by Tina Spain McDuffie. She is an excellent writer and teacher. Some things in Javascript have changed since the 2003 edition of the book, but it's better to truly learn the language from an older book rather than grasp only bit and pieces from a new one that isn't well written.

An image editing program should also be learned especially for front-end web development. Adobe's Photoshop is the most popular, but is quite expensive. The GIMP is a totally free image manipulation program that can be used instead of Photoshop.

A back-end web developer must know at least one server side scripting language such as PHP, PERL, or ASP. There are many others. He or she will also have to have a very strong basic understanding of databases. This is only the beginning. Web development and design, in particular for large data driven commercial web sites, entail so much more than the amateur may have thought.

Also, Christian web developers might want to strongly consider self-employment in the field to avoid conflict over development of sites with anti-Christian messages.

Based on true events, The Third Man by Angela Sheffield, brings the Bible up close and personal as the characters face real issues of life: Betrayal, deceit, romance, bitterness, anger against God, hopelessness, will power, perplexity, triumph, unforgiveness, mental illness, and the "Alcohol made me do it" excuse. Read chapter one FREE now.

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