Originally Posted by
alexdevmaster
Looking back on my many years of making websites and website like thingies, I have come to realise the source of alot of unnecessary problems that I struggled with.
Started out learning HTML it was soo cool to build a webpage. Imagine a document that could be viewed by the whole world! I knew very few who could do it and I suppose it would give me an edge!
But jumping into web design was like a nightmare, because all of sudden it wasnt just html that was needed to make that killer site of my dreams. I needed graphics, so i learnt Photoshop. Very soon that wasnt enuff, there was javascript (how funny to find out it had nothing to do with java), dhtml and flash. I took to each one. Hated javascript, damn thing wouldnt work in all browser versions. Could never get DHTML to work, flash just was not working out very nicely with my UI design. Then came the debate about tables vs divs and the CSS thing. And then suddenly I had the urge to make my websites be smart and since I was coding up a storm in C/C++ I took up server-side scripting. I had a compelling urge to learn Perl, Phython, ASP, and how to make JAVA applets. I did manage to make the proveribal 'Hello World' app in all. o my god what a whurl wind tour of web design and now development. And bwoy have i learnt so much useless stuff and wasted hours banging on a computer keyboard when i could have been out getting into trouble.
Now finally settling on PHP and learning that, altho i read HTML fluently I didnt quite grasp all of its power and usefulness. Infact I never grasped it for most of the technologies that befuddled me. Now, more mature and in a real web development position it seems fitting to start again from scratch. Beginning with HTML!
Nice to see one more person getting back to the source.
Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it poorly.