Welcome To The Self-Taught Web Developer Blog

I am a self-taught web developer. I never had any formal schooling (except for one 'Intro to C++' class). Every technique, every thing I know about developing websites comes from Google. Yep, anytime I wanted to do something I didn't know how to do, Google would eventually give me an answer to my question. So little by little I built my knowledge about web technologies until I began working full time as a web dev.

I write almost exclusively in php, javascript, and jquery. There are other languages out there on the web, and I may learn them at some point. But for right now, this is where I'm at. The problem with being a self-taught web dev is that no one told me what the "right way" to do something was. So my first webpages were HTML 4 documents, while everyone else was using transitional XHTML. No one was there to tell me what the "accepted way" to do something was. My purpose in making this blog is helping others just getting there start in web development get there much quicker.

I got my first taste of the web at htmlgoodies.com. It's not a bad site, but not best when learning "best practice" procedures and such. Anyway, I didn't know any better. If you are eager for more web help, w3schools.com is top notch. They have a lot of good tutorials and everything is updated with the most current web standards. Tomorrow's post is on starting a simple HTML page. You've probably heard of or seen DOCTYPES, but they just look jumbled and confusing. I'll sort out the mess for you, starting tomorrow.