# Storytelling

Part 4: Joomla, WordPress and the CMS Era — When I Finally Stopped Reinventing the Wheel

From hand-coding every line of PHP to discovering CMS era — a self-taught developer's honest take on CMS platforms and why using proven tools is a sign of maturity, not laziness.

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Part 3: PHP, MySQL and the Moment the Web Stopped Being Static

The moment a website stops being a static page and starts thinking for itself. This is the story of how PHP and MySQL gave my early web projects a brain — and changed how I understood the web forever.

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Part 2: Learned Web Design - The Tools and the Era When I Started Feeling "Pro"

From Notepad to FrontPage to Dreamweaver: Learned Web Design — this is how a self-taught developer learned to read the code behind the tools, and why that habit changed everything.

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Part 1: When Notepad Was My "Code Editor"

In 2000, with no tutorials or Stack Overflow, a college architecture student taught himself HTML using only Notepad and sheer stubbornness. This is where the journey into tech really began.

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