The traditional divide between marketers and developers is blurring. Discover how CMS improvements and AI advances are changing developer roles and are bringing marketers and developers closer together.
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Need to know more about web servers, cloud environments, and caching for your content management projects? Discover what these terms mean, and more, in this article about the building blocks that are used to get your website running.
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"Structured Content" is a term that get used by marketers when discussing content marketing, SEO, and other related topics. The term is broad, incorporating many activities and concepts that include defining the types of content being created, author-friendly models for each type, and a schema that translates the models into code used by developers.
Building a website solo is far more than a few lines of code. I have learned design and writing are critical skills, but neither is my strong suit. AI tools are like a helping hand though, especially for editing my writing. Overall, building and maintaining this site is a challenge, but it's expanded my appreciation of the skills of peers in design and writing roles.
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Content tech jobs require you keep up with the full stack used to build a content-focused app. A general understanding is needed of all parts, and expertise in several is preferred.
Just because you can use a browser doesn't mean you understand how web pages or "the internet" work. It's complicated.
Over the last two years I rebuilt this site using several different front-end frameworks. I'm going with NextJS because it's the best supported. While I love VueJS, Nuxt didn't work (for me) as well as Next. I'm settling in with React and Next for a few years.