I recently had this question put to me, and I thought it would make an interesting blog post:<\/p>\n
"What’s Apache, Perl, MySQL? As a web designer, will I need to know these for my clients?"<\/em><\/p>\n Apache, Perl, MySQL<\/font><\/p>\n Apache = a web server.<\/strong> The most popular (in terms of use) in the world. If your host is on Linux, they are running Apache. Perl = a programming language used a lot on Linux servers.<\/strong> It can be used to do all kinds of things but it is mostly known for its legacy as the programming language used to write CGI scripts – think guestbooks etc …<\/p>\n You don’t need to know much about Perl as a web designer. But Perl is still widely used and you will find that many scripts out there (like guest books,) are created with Perl. MySQL = is a database program.<\/strong> Database software like MySQL are used to store information. Used a lot with things like message boards, e-commerce shops and other programs like that. MySQL is often used with PHP (a programming language) to create database driven websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n MySQL becomes important to learn IF<\/strong> you want to learn how to create dynamic\/database driven websites.<\/p>\n A final point:<\/strong><\/p>\n There is so much (out there) in the web design world, that you will probably never need to know or use. I can tell you from 12 years experience, that nobody knows everything – there is just too much. <\/p>\n My advice is to concentrate on what you need NOW and to continue to work on basic skills … let the projects that come up dictate what you’ll learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently had this question put to me, and I thought it would make an interesting blog post: "What’s Apache, Perl, MySQL? As a web designer, will I need to know these for my clients?" Apache, Perl, MySQL Apache = a web server. The most popular (in terms of use) in the world. If your … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You don’t need to know much about Apache as a web designer, since your hosting company will configure that all for you.
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