I suppose I should begin with a little bit of background about myself. I am an aspiring web developer with my sights set on doing freelance web programming jobs for clients. I have been working with languages such as PHP and JavaScript for roughly 2 years now, and I enjoy it to a great degree. I used to have a web site (one of those free sites you get from your ISP, hah) and write some blog content when I was a youngster. None of that ever got anywhere and it lacked any sort of visual or functional spark that would draw anyone in. I would mostly just go on sites to get free JavaScript snippets and paste them into my site to see what would happen.
Fast forward by a little less than a decade, and I had forgotten I even enjoyed web things. I went into college with no particular direction, knowing only that I didn't want to live the rest of my life on minimum wage. I took a music class my first semester, thinking that I wanted to be a music producer, but ended up not enjoying it at all. Next semester, I took a few classes in the Graphics program, because I thought I wanted to be a 3D Artist. Long story short; I didn't want to be one after all.
However, one of the requirements to become a 3D Artist was a Web Design class, which I soon discovered that I had an actual interest in, and now here I am today. I spend a good part of my spare time learning and expanding my knowledge with these programming languages and techniques, and when I run into a problem, I gravitate toward writing a program to accomplish the task. I consider PHP to be my "language of choice", because that is what I would call the first real programming language I learned; after HTML and CSS of course, but those are required to do anything on the web anyway, so I don't count them in this situation.
But anyway, this has gone on long enough. I hope that this blog can get off the ground, or at least function as a place where I can keep a running log of things that I learn, or technologies I find interesting, and so on.
After writing that out, I am actually quite curious to hear how other folks in the industry found out that they were interested in working with web. Regardless of if it is web programming, or design or UX, or anything else, I would love to hear it.
Even if you are not interested in any of this stuff, and you somehow stumbled upon this by accident, I would love to hear how you got your start in whatever it is that you do!
