{"id":3860,"date":"2014-03-09T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2014-03-09T18:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:46:34","slug":"what-learning-web-design-has-done-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2014\/what-learning-web-design-has-done-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Learning Web Design has done for me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img-about-stefan.jpg\" alt=\"stefan mischook\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3863\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I built my first website in 1994 for my import\/export business &#8211; I needed a cheap way to reach people in Europe and Asia. At the time, the Web was very new to most of the world &#8230; in fact, I had one of the first websites with photos!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becoming a web designer and programmer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By 1996 I was a full time web designer taking on web design contracts. In those days though, the Web was just really starting to heat up; I still remember having to go into meetings with prospective clients, having to explain to them what the Web was! A typical question I got:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How is the Web thing going to help my business?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financial Freedom with Web Design:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Becoming a coder has had many major positive impacts in my life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved my ability to think logically.<\/li>\n<li>Taught me how to organize and create complex things.<\/li>\n<li>Opened my mind to abstract ideas &#8211; I could understand things that once totally confused me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; In many ways, learning code and programming, is like doing pushups for the brain! That said, I have to admit that the #1 thing that learning to code brought to the table, was financial freedom and choice. <\/p>\n<p>You see, when you get over that learning hump that can scare so many people away from programming, you will unlock earning power that you probably never imagined. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In a nutshell:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learning web design and programming almost guarantees high paying jobs and lots of work. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<br \/>\nStefan Mischook<br \/>\nkillerSites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img-about-stefan.jpg\" alt=\"stefan mischook\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3863\" style=\"margin:10px; float: right;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I built my first website in 1994 for my import\/export business &#8211; I needed a cheap way to reach people in Europe and Asia. At the time, the Web was very new to most of the world &#8230; in fact, I had one of the first websites with photos!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becoming a web designer and programmer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By 1996 I was a full time web designer taking on web design contracts. In those days though the Web was really starting to heat up, I still remember having to go into meetings with prospective clients having to explain to them what the Web was! A typical question I got:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}