nigelwright7557

For development work I would never use a laptop. I use a top of the range Skylake PC with a 28 inch monitor and 8GB DRAM. I not only design websites but do CAD work as well.

The rise of free business website templates seems to have killed the job. It takes very little time to fill in a template compared to the high skill required to actually program an ecommerce site. I advertised my webskills for 3 months and got one reply.

I have been programming for 35 years and I am still learning. The only way to learn is to read up on it then do it. I am finding that I am looking up topics on the internet a lot these days to find out how to do something. Makes me wonder how I survived many years ago before the internet.

Another option is to start your own business. I tried advertising ecommerce on ebay and got no replies. A possibly better way to go would be yell.com to market yourself locally or country wide. If you don't have the skills then learn them. Do a project of your own that uses those skills. That's how I learned.

I have been programming since 1980. I am still not a good programmer. I quickly forget parts of the programming system I am using. But I can quickly get answers to my questions on the net. So long as the results are good you don't necessarily need to be an excellent programmer. I remember my first Z80 assembly language attempt in 1980. I wrote 3 lines of code and got about 10 errors reported ! At least these days Visual Studio has intellisense and helps you.

You could do it using code behind using a loop to input each day of the year. int cx; for (cx=1;cx<=365;cx++) add to sql database day cx;

I often have music on while programing but I cut it out mentally and cant tell you what has played as I have been concentrating on coding.

I learned asp the hard way using Microsoft Visual Studio. I created a new project of asp and it created a basic website ready for me. I had to learn to go into code, mark up and the visual designer to change things. I then had a go at a web shop. I had to get into SQL and cookies to get it to work. As usual with Microsoft their template was super bloated and there was loads I had to get rid of like pages I didn't need and massive CSS files which were almost impossible to control. I deleted the main CSS files and just kept basic CSS file. My website is at www.murtonpikesystems.co.uk Not the prettiest site but it is functional and hopefully bug free. I have 35 years experience of assembly language and C programming but still found asp and the internet a challenge. With asp you have to save any info to sql where as in normal windows programming you can store everything in memory. Each time the page reloads you lose any saved info unless it is passed by cookie or the page header.

While I have been a programmer for 35 years I have just recently got into asp and websites. My first site is a simple web shop. It has items for sale, a cart and checkout via email order. www.murtonpikesystems.co.uk