Hello, I'm new here to the forum. Hope someone can offer some insight. I've been working towards graduating for web development, design and programming. I know a lot of designers put a lot of hard work into their sites. Aside from them, I keep coming across postings from "newbies" that have created their first layout. No education, little to no knowledge of html, and they are all awsome sites. Very proffessional. Am I missing something, are they templates? Should I just give up on college?????
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Jump to PostYou might like this blog entry: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry376.html
Someone who can slap together a site using pre-built templates and tools isn't a programmer, and a "site" is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to web-aware applications.
Jump to PostIn my opinion, Google has been the ruin of the web. By monetizing content (which they don't even own), they've created an incentive to put up sites quickly, on the hot topic du jour, strictly to get traffic and therefore ad revenue. In fact, we call these "MFA", or "Made …
Jump to PostHello, I'm new here to the forum. Hope someone can offer some insight. I've been working towards graduating for web development, design and programming. I know a lot of designers put a lot of hard work into their sites. Aside from them, I keep coming across postings from "newbies" that …
Jump to PostThe great thing about the web, and therefore web development, is that it is so big, and still expanding of course, that there is an opportunity to make money for anyone who actually grasps it firmly enough.
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