zt4096 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Hello Friends. I want to ask you people is that I want to become web developer and then earn money through freelancing websites(web-developing projects). I want to self-learn web development. Please guide me , where to start and how to start?. I don't have such background or any experience. But i want to make some money through freelancing. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Truth be known, you wont likely start making any money until you become a proficient developer. If you haven't started yet, I would say that will be at least a few years off. Where to start? I would start by learning the client side languages, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. From there, you'll likely want to learn something server side, PHP is ideal. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1330678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zt4096 Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 from which website should i learn web development? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1330721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 A nice start would probably be the Mozilla developer network. It's up to date, and covers quite a bit of what needs to be learnt. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1330723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 In fact right here is a great page to start on. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/learn Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1330724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zt4096 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 please tell me about any other website, which has easy to learn content, so that i can easily understand. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1330978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I don't think it gets much simpler than the site I already linked you to. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1331033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryce910 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 w3schools is a amazing site to learn basic coding for html/php/javascript/mysql. I used it when I was learning all the time. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1332564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderwell Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 its a shame that w3 schools is riddled with errors, i would never suggest that site to anyone Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1332620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 w3schools is a amazing site to learn basic coding for html/php/javascript/mysql. I used it when I was learning all the time. w3schools is an amazing site to learn bad and outdated code. It's terrible, to be honest. It's mildly useful as a quick reference and nothing more. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1332670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 w3schools is so good that I have it blocked from my Google search results. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1332715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyKay47 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 w3schools simply leads new programmers down the wrong path. Since they do not know any better, they think the site is awesome. It's not. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1332734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellReal Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Wow such hate on w3schools When I first started (7 years ago) I used w3school's html reference sheet... I also tried the tutorials, but I hated learning from examples, I like just experimenting, but w3schools was probably invaluable to my starting in web development.. Honestly I wouldn't use w3schools for PHP, and tizag isn't all that great either, I'm lucky I learn well by myself.. All you REALLY need is an online reference, even after 7 years, sometimes I find myself on google from time to time, you're never going to fully memorize a language.. Thats why I say that as a web developer, you're honestly not gonna be an encyclopedia with a heartbeat, As a web developer its more important to be able to think of a construct and implement it, you need to be able to think about potential issues, before you even get to them, you need to be able to think outside the box.. The best web developers are the ones that can think the best, not the ones that know everything there is to know about a language.. Honestly, I know probably like the most common and important functions in php, but even though I've done things with PHP:GD, a bunch of times to be exact, I don't use it that often, so its just one of those things that get purged from memory, so I end up going to php.net and searching 'imagecreate', because the parameters for the image functions are freaking outrageous LOL I hope I helped and made becoming a web developer less of a nightmare, dw about general knowledge too much, worry about how well you brainstorm, and your problemsolving. - Russell Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1333779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 When I first started (7 years ago) I used w3school's html reference sheet... That's the problem, they haven't updated it since then. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1333798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aditd Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Hello Friends. I want to ask you people is that I want to become web developer and then earn money through freelancing websites(web-developing projects). I want to self-learn web development. Please guide me , where to start and how to start?. I don't have such background or any experience. But i want to make some money through freelancing. You will have to go to sites like scriptlance or elance where people place projects and freelancer bid for it. You might also consider to make a site with your projects that you worked ... cause you might be asked what is expertise, what did you do. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259609-how-to-become-freelance-developer/#findComment-1336221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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