Actually, I created this new category a few days ago thinking of writing something about websites and things that amuse me as a amateur webmaster, however I have not really had anything in mind that I want to write (busy busy). I work as a software developer, and have great interest in multi-threaded/multi-process application server architecture. However, I am also interested in website design and drawing stuff. Between Vim (text editor for the real programmer, btw) and Photoshop I have chosen the former. However, I still like to work on some website projects if time permits.
I am not good at Photoshop anyway. Can’t afford it I’ll say, and my unix background leads me to use Gimp even on a Win32 platform. However, there are a lot of graphics design skill that I want to learn but don’t have time to do so.
More importantly, instead of focusing on fancy graphics and animating Flash applets, I am also interested in search engine optimisation, which sometimes means plain and simple website. I won’t say that I am an expert in the area of SEO, but I can certainly look at a site and say, “don’t think the googlebot is going to like this”. I am also hoping to write things about SEO and my experiences with it here.
Arrgh. A lot of things I want to do and learn, but still stuck here coding. :(
Scott,
I totally hear where you are coming from. I’ve gotten really interested in web design and graphic art these last few years and it’s CRAZY how much you need to know and own. Just to get started in web design job they want you to know PHP, mySQL, ASP, Javascript, Flash, ABC123, yada yada. I just wanna make it look pretty!!! I’m not a programmer! For grapic design it’s Quark, Illustrator, Pagemaker, heck I can’t afford to fill my car up with gas, like I can afford 1000 bucks for Quark to learn it. Yeah I know there are demos :( At any rate, I’m sitting here right now trying to figure out the fundamentals of programming via tutorials on Webmonkey.com. There’s not enough hours in the day! This stuff is making me crazy, Im having the worst time comprehending it.