The latest articles on DEV Community by Daniel Ogbe Oke (@okeogbe). https://dev.to/okeogbe https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F381308%2F84bf8a79-7d69-4209-a14a-a15ad44f8c9a.png https://dev.to/okeogbe en Daniel Ogbe Oke Thu, 07 May 2020 10:23:12 +0000 https://dev.to/okeogbe/proper-web-research-the-new-superpower-of-2020-3ib3 https://dev.to/okeogbe/proper-web-research-the-new-superpower-of-2020-3ib3 <p>Lately I've gotten a decent amount of questions on how I achieve certain things and when my response goes like "I just Googled it" it's often perceived as a joke or some sort of "whining".</p> <p>Personally I've been able to achieve a lot just by looking it up on a search engine. A couple of days back I was approached by a client who asked me to build a sales funnel (Something I had never heard of before 😔). But I told him I could do it 😂.</p> <p>Here are a couple of things I feel helps one to solve complicated problems</p> <h3> <strong>There is life beyond the first page of Google</strong> </h3> <p>Most developers and people in general have this issue when it comes to extensive web research and if you're being honest with yourself, you're guilty as well.</p> <p>Well in as much as the results on the first page has reviews and 60% of the times we tend to find what we are looking for on the first page of Google<br> But in a case where you can't find it on the first page, Don't go to bed, there are tons of other pages that may have what you're looking for.</p> <h3> <strong>Use the Keyword 'How to ....'</strong> </h3> <p>As we all know, Google and other search engines are a large marketplace for knowledge. So you might want to be a little bit specific, i mean search engines don't read minds.</p> <p>So starting your search with the phrase 'How to ' kind of filters out all the noise out on the internet which at the end gives you a more accurate set of answers.</p> <h3> <strong>Stack Overflow is not only Senior Developers</strong> </h3> <p>I know this one is a little bit off but i know a reasonable amount of Junior developers think that their problems are too 'simple' to be on stack overflow.</p> <p>So a small note the the junior developers out there, your HTML and CSS problems have answers on stack overflow. I mean senior Devs were once junior Devs so there is a high chance they had the same challenge(s) at a point in their development journey. So never be scared or ashamed on asking certain questions on stack overflow.</p> <p>I hope you found this read helpful, you can hop over to your favorite search engine and try out your new superpower and don't forget to leave a ❤️</p> webdev