How did you learn about running a website?

Canada
February 4, 2007 9:13am CST
If you run a website, how did you learn to do it? Did you take a course, read a book, have a tutor, or learn on the net?
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6 responses
• Turkey
5 Feb 07
i learnt at high school and at college.and also read some articels on the net now i know htm very well.but i have never had lessons abour setuping a web site .i learnt it by my self.now i make web pages and asp i am still studiyng on asp
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@badreligi (224)
• Indonesia
4 Feb 07
I started learn about making a website from a friend, and i just got the basics, just for fun. Since i am a kind of curious guy, i also read some tutorials on internet, and i think good enough, and complete tutorial lists on net, reading some ebooks is great also. If you really want to learn seriously, you have to take a course for PHP or ASP, because most sites using that language.
• Canada
7 Feb 07
I need to look that stuff up. I really should learn something as opposed to wasting time on sites that do nothing for my future.
• Canada
7 Feb 07
I need to look that stuff up. I really should learn something as opposed to wasting time on sites that do nothing for my future.
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
4 Feb 07
i am a web designer. i have done a course on the software which are required for web designing and so i do a job on that. then you can naturally guess that i can make website very easily. and i have submitted them on free hostings.i like 2 do that a lot. i enjoy making websites and also to design them and priovide new things in them
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• Canada
7 Feb 07
Well, I would love to hear what a real web designer has to say about my little free site. http:/www.modernpioneers.piczo.com
@WebMann (4731)
• Canada
4 Feb 07
I actually started my web design business because of a computer/internet course I was teaching. I created web pages to teach my students and before I knew it I was making money online. Not much but enough to know that I wanted my own online business. I have now been working from my own home office for six years and wouldn't have it any other way. It all starts with an interest and then it was just learning one thing at a time and learning it well.
• Canada
7 Feb 07
I should have been on the wagon back then. Is there still a market for web designers? With all the pre-packaged web builder software and so many free sub-domains it seems a daunting market. Congrats on a successful business. I wish we all were as hard workers as you.
4 Feb 07
I taught myself through a mixture of reading books and looking on the internet. I haven't ever done a course, but when I first learnt there weren't any available. I think these days if you want a job on the web you need to do a course, I'm lucky because I have experience now and that is always useful.
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• Canada
7 Feb 07
I like your site Michelle. It is clean and nav is easy. Seems there is potential for advetising and money making. Most important it is informative. You taught yourself well.
@kbalona (61)
• United States
7 Feb 07
I just learned by doing, trial and error. But there is a vast amount of tutorials available online that can help you do just about anything. Also, free forums. I had a problem with Javascript form validation, and I found a forum where a very nice person helped me until I had it working.