Is web design a good career choice?
Is it realistic? Well, no, not really. There are a lot of web designers out there now, and it's quite competitive. First, let me be clear about something - a web designer creates the layout of the pages, the look and feel, what content should be wear, the images to be used, the colours to use, how the pages should interact with each other. A web developer takes the design and implements it for the customer. We web designer shouldn't do any development at all. It sounds like you want to do both, which is fine, but be clear about what you're doing. Learn it and do it in 2-3 months? It's possible, but I don't know how good you'll be - especially if you're designing and implementing. You're up against Comp Sci grads that can implement a lot faster and better than you - at least initially. If I were you, I would start this in your spare time while doing something that generates more guaranteed income. Even if you're good at your job, that's only half the battle - getting customers is an art on its own.
Is Quora just a glorified Yahoo! Answers?
Sure, in the sense that a Tesla is just a glorified golf cart. At the most basic level, they both work on the same principle, but one has design, functionality, capability and even looks that's far beyond the other. The problem here is that you have two competing definitions of the word "glorified". It can mean something that's given glory for no good reason, or it can mean something that's been made glorious. If you mean the first, then no, Quora isn't given glory for no good reason. It's far more prestigious because it has a great deal more to offer. The differences between the sites may be subtle (some are, and some aren't) but they cumulatively make a huge difference in the user experience (at least, they did in my case). If you're using the second definition, then the answer is yes. Quora took the basic concept behind Yahoo Answers and they made it into something glorious. And good for them.
Is Quora just a glorified Yahoo! Answers?
Sure, in the sense that a Tesla is just a glorified golf cart. At the most basic level, they both work on the same principle, but one has design, functionality, capability and even looks that's far beyond the other. The problem here is that you have two competing definitions of the word "glorified". It can mean something that's given glory for no good reason, or it can mean something that's been made glorious. If you mean the first, then no, Quora isn't given glory for no good reason. It's far more prestigious because it has a great deal more to offer. The differences between the sites may be subtle (some are, and some aren't) but they cumulatively make a huge difference in the user experience (at least, they did in my case). If you're using the second definition, then the answer is yes. Quora took the basic concept behind Yahoo Answers and they made it into something glorious. And good for them.
What went wrong with Yahoo? It was once worth almost $125 billion, but today sold to Verizon for $5 billion.
There is no one single reason that Yahoo "went wrong", which I assume means that they aren't seen as one of the top couple of internet companies like they once were. There are product reasons, strategic reasons, and cultural reasons. Some top of mind examples though:Focusing so much for years on Panama (Google Adwords competitor) and search in general, when they ended up losing to Google and eventually outsourcing this to Microsoft.Becoming too unfocused. Yahoo tried to do everything and triggered the famous Peanut Butter Manifesto from Brad Garlinghouse that summarized this problem well.The shift from a desktop world where everyone used home pages to a mobile and social world. Yahoo failed to build their own successful mobile and social products or to acquire any. Yahoo got too bloated, and nobody would ever make the cuts needed to both headcount and its products/properties.Buying Flickr, then letting it languish. Buying Flickr for $35 million was a bargain when you see how huge social photos are today. They could have turned Flickr into the next Facebook or Instagram and instead didn't invest properly in it.Failing to acquire Google and then Facebook. Yahoo had opportunities to buy both of these companies when it was clear they were going to be big successes and instead wouldn't pay what was needed. For example, they had a deal to buy Facebook for $1.1 billion pretty much accepted, then Yahoo's earnings came out and the value of the deal dropped to 800M due to stock compensation and Zuckerberg balked when Yahoo wouldn't change the deal to put the price back up. Think about the value of Facebook today and that Yahoo didn't acquire them over a $300M difference.Leadership changes. Looking at companies like Google and Facebook you'll see that the same leadership has essentially been in place the whole time. Yahoo has had a shifting cast of CEOs and executive teams that has never provided a longer term vision and execution path to take shape.Acceptance of lower quality employees. By the time I worked at Yahoo from 2007-2010, there were still a ton of great A-quality people there, but there were also a lot of B or C-quality people who were not outstanding at their work. This starts to eat away at the company and make the A-players go work elsewhere.There are more reasons, but these provide a good summary...
What are some good websites for simple interior design ideas?
You can try http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture Although they focus mainly on architecture they have amazing interior designs. You can also try to search the web by stating the concept of the interior design you are looking for, to narrow down the search. You can try words like 'Contemporary', 'modern' or 'minimalist'.
What is web design, what does a web designer do?
The sort answer is a web designer creates websites. But what is means to be a web designer falls into a gray area since web design may encompass web design, web programming, web developing, or all three. Some web designers develop to look, feel, and organization of a website from a concept to a number of workable graphics files which will then be transferred to a web developer who will break it apart and attach code to it making it functional and interactive. Depending on the web designer's expertise, they may do both of these steps themselves. Some web designers are web developers too, but web developer specialists are mostly not designers. Since there are so many types of web coding languages, people usually specialize in one or the other, but some web designers have a working knowledge of a few of these coding languages to be able to have a sense when they're designing a website of the limitations of the functionality the website can end up having.