Want To Make It Big? Learn How To Code (Or At Least Edit Code!)

If you constantly have to wait on someone else to help you, you'll never get anywhere. I'll be honest - I'm not a coding genius. BUT I can at least recognize most coding and edit it to do what I want. I started out a complete airhead who was only able to use "WYSIWYG" (drag and drop) features on Yahoo Geocities, then learned how to create bold/italic/color text on Myspace in 2006... Now I can edit and create HTML and CSS code on at least an amateur/semi-pro level.

Places I've learned a lot of my coding from:

I'm always learning - which is great because the tech world is ever changing. But at least I get closer every day. I've even managed to teach other people how to get to at least the bold/italic/color level - and these are people who used to be AFRAID to even ATTEMPT to code. All you have to do is TRY. If you are uncomfortable messing with something you might break - practice on a page with a COPY of something you're trying to edit until you are comfortable enough to edit something live.

And always - have fun!

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Pavlov Sylvain March 2, 2012 at 9:28am

you're right !
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SweetPotato March 2, 2012 at 10:31am

Couldn't agree more.
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Bernard Lama March 2, 2012 at 10:59am

The passion is the most important part of learning new things...
- J.Ayvar > Bernard Lama March 8, 2012 at 5:05am
  
  YES IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!
Ceddy J March 2, 2012 at 5:19pm

MUCH LOVE JANETTE :)
soaringeagle March 2, 2012 at 7:05pm

html and css are easy i self taught myself html wayyyy back 20+ years ago

css much more recent

tho i tried teaching myself java sce=ript and java programming and it just gage me a headache and confused me

i can now kinda edit script to a degree but no way i can write em from scratch

i do recognize many basic elements abnd can figure out what needs to be changed ..sometime ig]=f its pretty basic

but thats about it

easiest way to learn css i found is firebi=]ug free time and tinkering around playing see what this abnd that does lol

it was very rare i actualy looked anythng up mostly learned by tinkering
Janettee McCrary March 3, 2012 at 12:03am

I'm glad you all agree:)
Star-Dust March 3, 2012 at 12:36pm
Bruce Gaynham March 5, 2012 at 1:12am

I agree and I'm always amazed by how much information is out there on the net and how freely so many people give of their time and knowledge to provide said info - just like so many here on Creators. So THANKS to all the knowledge givers out there!
Atheist Universe March 7, 2012 at 12:25pm

Learning the hard way, by myself =)

Using my browser's Inspect Element a lot.