Congratulations

[Tim W]

Congratulations to me that is.

Greatly encouraged by someone here who said a few weeks ago that most
professional web designers can't even read their own code I have gone
pro as a web designer, adding it to my portfolio of half a dozen part
time off-and-on trades and professions with which I hope to continue to
fend off the spectre of commuting into town for full time employment.

I am not showing you my site. I don't think I want it criticised in this
instance but thank you for your ongoing help and advice - I will need
plenty more now I have to pretend to be super competent.

Tim W

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

Congratulations to me that is.

Greatly encouraged by someone here who said a few weeks ago that most
professional web designers can't even read their own code I have gone
pro as a web designer, adding it to my portfolio of half a dozen part
time off-and-on trades and professions with which I hope to continue to
fend off the spectre of commuting into town for full time employment.

I am not showing you my site. I don't think I want it criticised in this
instance but thank you for your ongoing help and advice - I will need
plenty more now I have to pretend to be super competent.

I am fighting that battle, too, on several fronts: HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, SQL Server, and the glue between browser and SQL Server.
It is tough with not nearly enough easily-accessible and accurate
information. Though they are not a total solution, newsgroups help
considerably. Thank you people who have answered newbies' questions.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[richard]

Congratulations to me that is.

Greatly encouraged by someone here who said a few weeks ago that most
professional web designers can't even read their own code I have gone
pro as a web designer, adding it to my portfolio of half a dozen part
time off-and-on trades and professions with which I hope to continue to
fend off the spectre of commuting into town for full time employment.

I am not showing you my site. I don't think I want it criticised in this
instance but thank you for your ongoing help and advice - I will need
plenty more now I have to pretend to be super competent.

Tim W

At this stage you are still an amateur. Putting out a shingle and charging
for your services does not make you a porfessional. To become a tru pro,
you need to have a solid track record.

When your customer hires you now, can you crank his new website out, as he
wants it in a matter of days? A week later when he calls and says he says
nothing, he will take his business elsewhere.

 

[dorayme]

Putting out a shingle and charging
for your services does not make you a porfessional. To become a tru pro,
you need to have a solid track record.

When your customer hires you now, can you crank his new website out, as he
wants it in a matter of days? A week later when he calls and says he says
nothing, he will take his business elsewhere.

Not my experience at all. Sometimes with some big sites, it has taken
me months, some but not all of the delays due to slow supply of info
from clients.

A lot of nonsense is spoken about "professionalism", some of the
delays from my clients has not tempted me to label *them*
unprofessional and it is hardly fair to label a web developer taking
longer than a few days to get a good big site together
"unprofessional" even if he or she has all the raw inputs.

 

[richard]

Not my experience at all. Sometimes with some big sites, it has taken
me months, some but not all of the delays due to slow supply of info
from clients.

A lot of nonsense is spoken about "professionalism", some of the
delays from my clients has not tempted me to label *them*
unprofessional and it is hardly fair to label a web developer taking
longer than a few days to get a good big site together
"unprofessional" even if he or she has all the raw inputs.

Anyone can hang out the professional shingle at any time.

As I was a truck driver, truckers are considered to be rookies for 3 years.
I can teach you all you need to know about driving a truck in a day or two.
It's going to take you 3 to 5 years to learn the rest of the business.
Then another 3 to 5 years of hard knocks just might get you professional
status.

Web designing is quite similar. When is one truly called a professional?
Hell if I know.

 

[Brian Cryer]

Congratulations to me that is.

Greatly encouraged by someone here who said a few weeks ago that most
professional web designers can't even read their own code I have gone pro
as a web designer, adding it to my portfolio of half a dozen part time
off-and-on trades and professions with which I hope to continue to fend
off the spectre of commuting into town for full time employment.

Reading your own code is easy - the trick is being able to understand and
maintain it 6 months or a year down the line when you've not been working on
it regularly. Although frankly it's a lot easier with HTML & CSS than it can
be with development languages, say PHP, JavaScript, Java, C# etc. Better
still is to write such that someone else can easily pick it up and work with
it.