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December 27, 2005
My first shot at being a coder
In the last week, I came to the conclusion that I need a website for my proofreading business, and I needed it stat. I've never learned any type of coding or programming (except for a tweaking things in the blog a little bit, but nothing from scratch). I finally decided the time had come. At first I tried downloading Dreamweaver and experimenting with that, but it was too confusing. So, I'm teaching myself HTML/XHTML. I bought this book about a year ago, SAMS Teach Yourself HTML in 24 Hours. I just got through the first three one-hour lessons and I have a web page! It's pretty lame, it looks almost identical to a craigslist ad. In fact here's the comparison:
My 1st hour lesson:
My 2nd hour lesson:
My craigslist ad:
I know it's not much, but not bad for my first night.
Posted by meloknee at December 27, 2005 10:01 PM
Comments
Welcome to the geek club. When you complete your first mission we will teach you the secret handshake.
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Posted by: Ken at December 28, 2005 10:24 AM
Have you received any emails about any new jobs yet?
Posted by: Andrew Davis at December 28, 2005 04:52 PM
Not yet, I just put it online last night, so I don't think it's even been picked up by any search engines yet.
Posted by: melanie at December 28, 2005 05:08 PM
Dear Ken,
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Love, Liz
Posted by: liz at January 3, 2006 09:14 AM