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Top 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website in 2020

Consumer behavior has changed over time to adapt to the evolving technologies in the digital era. For instance, the thick yellow pages, which were popular not so long ago, have been replaced with online directories with the advent of the World Wide Web.

Today, the number of people who use the internet to find businesses has increased manifold and yellow pages have nearly been reduced to dust. According to Adaptive Marketing, in 2017, 97% of people searched online to find a local business near them. Therefore, if you want to grow your business by being in front of the right audience, you need to be found online – implying you must have a website. This blog talks about the top 10 reasons why your business needs a website in 2020 regardless of the industry you are in.

Code Literacy: Why Coding Became Important

Coding and programming are all around us and will only get more all-pervasive in the future.

For this reason, many are making the argument that learning to code, or at least have a basic understanding of it, should become a common part of a child’s education.

Here we explore why coding is important, what it is, and where you can learn it for yourself.

Why is coding literacy important?

Coding and coding literacy can be argued to be one of the most important skills for current and future generations to learn. Many have argued that it should form part of a national curriculum on par with a native language, the sciences, and math.

We are surrounded with electronic devices each running uncountable numbers of software that run on code of some kind. Our modern world is also heavily reliant

7 REASONS YOU NEED TECH SKILLS – EVEN IF YOU DON’T WORK IN TECH

The great thing about tech skills, though, is that learning begets learning. Once you figure out how one part works, it gets easier and easier to dive into other parts and figure out how things work.

And the benefits of having some tech skills under your belt extend way beyond just the tech industry. Coding skills can also carry over into other parts of your life, both professional and personal. There are so many benefits to learning tech skills, from basic HTML and CSS to more complex languages like PHP and JavaScript, that it’s becoming a big disadvantage if you don’t make learning basic coding a priority.

Check out these seven ways that coding and other tech skills can improve your life outside of the tech industry.

1. THEY MAKE YOU A BETTER PROBLEM SOLVER

Coding is all

NETLIGHT TECH CAMP 2019

WHAT IF IT DOES?

Think about it!

If you are a graphics designer, and you have at least 10 organizations e.g schools or churches, that you handle all their activity graphics.

The fact remains that most of these organizations have monthly programmes and likely special programmes sometimes within that space.

Now if you are been paid at least a token of ₦10,000 (Ten Thousand naira) for just a design for the month, doing that for at least 10 organizations in a month yields you nothing less than ₦100,000 (Hundred Thousand naira).

Now, if special programmes also comes up within that space, that is extra cash for you. There is also probability that 4 out of those 10 will have as well special programmes for you to design for.

Now, what if you have more than 10, I mean 20’s, 30’s or 50’s? Do you

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