January 27, 20251 yr Hi Web Designers! Hope everyone is good. I have decided to create an account on this website to learn from you guys and hopefully become proficient in web design. I have dabbled in creating websites several times before in the past, but never took it any further to an experienced level. Recently I have decided to learn something worthwhile and interesting. I have set my mind to becoming a web designer. My goal is to become proficient and creative. At the moment I am amateur level, but slowly learning bit by bit. I know the basics of HTML and CSS, and getting better the more I practice. I have begun learning Javascript as well, but at the moment my script knowledge is not so good. I would like to be able to code some awesome and interactive effects for web. I'm doing this mainly because I have creative ideas in my mind which I would like to experiment with and see for real. I know a little bit of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, so hopefully with time I'll get better with these programs too as I will be using them to help me with my web design. The reason I have decided on this is because I would like to change career one day. My current job is extremely boring and within a few years it will probably become obsolete due to all the robots out there. Hopefully Ai will not kill off the web design industry before I get good at coding, haha! I have registered myself a website - RonKolos.com - and I am using it to play around with various styles and features. I have a web design tab on my website where I will be experimenting with creating various websites for dummy businesses. There's not a great deal on there at the moment, but it will grow. Let me know what you think and if you have any good ideas or suggestions for me to improve. Thanks!
January 28, 20251 yr Great to have you, Ron! We all start as amateurs. Some of us still are 👋 Sounds like you're on a good path to broadening your skills and getting out of your current career!
January 28, 20251 yr Hi @Ron.Kolos Whilst web design is fun that's not where all the money is. Look at creating themes, plugins and extensions for the popular platforms such as wordpress and shopify. Find a niche exploit to the max. I know a chap who has built a range of products for churches in the USA. I build financial plugins and have clients all over the world. The days of simple HTML/CSS sites even with JS effects are almost gone. The world is moving into hosted platforms (like Shopify) and CMS (like WordPress).
January 28, 20251 yr Author 9 hours ago, fisicx said: "Look at creating themes, plugins and extensions for the popular platforms such as wordpress and shopify. Find a niche exploit to the max. I know a chap who has built a range of products for churches in the USA. I build financial plugins and have clients all over the world. The days of simple HTML/CSS sites even with JS effects are almost gone. The world is moving into hosted platforms (like Shopify) and CMS (like WordPress)." Hi, oh yes, it's definitely noticeable how much web design has changed, especially in the last few years. Shopify and Wordpress are super-popular now. Building plugins sounds great. It's cool that you're building financial plugins. I'm interested in finance. Tell me a bit about the plugins you've made and their uses?
January 29, 20251 yr Moderators, can you enable these links! https://loanpaymentplugin.com Custom versions: https://variants.loanpaymentplugin.com Comparisons: https://comparisonplugin.com Custom versions: https://comparisonplugin.com/custom-versions It's the custom work that makes all the money. A recent project for a client in Sweden earned me close to £900.
January 30, 20251 yr Author On 1/29/2025 at 12:26 PM, fisicx said: "https://loanpaymentplugin.com https://variants.loanpaymentplugin.com https://comparisonplugin.com https://comparisonplugin.com/custom-versions" Nice one, well done! Those plugins look great. Do Wordpress plugins have to be built with PHP?
January 31, 20251 yr Yes they do. Anything you build for any sort of platform needs to be coded in more than plain HTML/JS. The reason is they need to integrate with the plafrom's functions in order to work. As an example, plugins needs to enqueue CSS and JS files. This is done using built in wordpress functions. For example: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_script/ If you have variables they are stored in a WP table. To access these you need to use WP functions: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_option/ And so on. There are thousands of functions you can call. This is a really good place to start: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/ As an aside, I've never been trained in coding. It's all been learnt from online resources.
February 1, 20251 yr Author On 1/31/2025 at 11:38 AM, fisicx said: This is a really good place to start: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/ As an aside, I've never been trained in coding. It's all been learnt from online resources. Great, nice one. Thanks for the tips. I will make a start on my PHP learning once I feel a bit more comfortable with the more basic stuff first 👍
February 1, 20251 yr Start by installing wordpress and learning how it all works. More hosts offer a auto-install making installation a simple process.
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