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So I had to either use Word or edit the pre-generated HTML files manually, which were polluted with garbage HTML tags and inline CSS styles.
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It was a real pain to update because it had been built using Microsoft Word - yes, you read this right.I figured that it would give me some practical webmaster experience.īut after a while, I realized that it wasn't up to par with the other websites of the time: Nonetheless, I jumped at the opportunity of updating it once in a while - which I did do for a couple of months. This was when I learned that my Toastmasters club was looking for a new webmaster to manage its website: After that, I felt more than ready - and highly motivated - to test out my newly acquired skills. So I skimmed over its contents and only read the sections that interested me. However, CSS The Definitive Guide felt much more like a reference book than a guide that I could read from cover to cover. So I guess that I succeeded in this regard. Call me OCD or whatever, but my goal was to learn as much as I could about JavaScript the programming language. I read the 1000+ pages of JavaScript The Definitive Guide and I played with all of its code snippets. The Definitive Guide series allowed me to go much deeper and learn the intrinsic details of JavaScript and CSS. This was exactly what I needed because I had never been formally introduced to web development. The Head First series was a perfect introduction to creating websites 3 - it covered all the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, without assuming any prior knowledge on these things. So after some careful research, I ended up buying the following ones: In my opinion, books are the best teaching tool out there. Little did I know that the following months would be pivotal in my software development career. So this is how I ended up studying web development in my spare time.
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So to be clear, I knew how to find my way around an existing web app, but I lacked the skills and the experience to attack a full web development project head-on. The problem is that up to that time, I had been working on backend code 99% of the time - the remaining 1% were for those handful of cases in which I had to debug a web page or perform some web integration work in my day job. Sometime in 2013, I figured that if I wanted to eventually develop my own web apps, I'd first need to master website development. Menu How My Web Development Skills Went From Zero to One on design, website, development, html, css, javascript