[Looking For Designer]

Hey Ross, I can make your website look GOOD! As well as running several of my own websites, I do alot of design for my development clients and I'm used to working on big projects.

Can we talk on Skype or something so I can find out more ?

Adam

[CS50 - Harvards free computer science course]

CS50 is Harvard's own first semester of computer science, and it's online for free.

**Computer science is NOT web development. **

IMO your time would be much better spend learning Wordpress and getting sales experience if you haven't yet made your first buck. Moreover.. I think it's a bad first course to take *if* your goal is to make money from website development. There's tons of great courses out there for that - killersites has one, there's codeacademy, freecodecamp, and so on.

After being comfortable with their webstack of choice,  who here has tried CS50? One line caught my eye in particular:

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One of the reasons why they do use PHP in CS50 is because it is heavily inspired by C. By week 7, students have a solid C foundation. Picking up PHP at that point isn’t difficult because of the syntactical similarities.

7 weeks of C, with carryover to other languages. That sounds useful. On the other hand, you learn stuff like how the mouse pointer works on a very technical level - useless for making money with web development... in my opinion. 

What do you think? Has anybody taken CS50 and completed it?

[What's the best text editor for building websites?]

Sublime is great. I prefer it to notepad++ because it's easier to install extensions. A great extension is emmet - it  gives you some really useful shortcuts like so:

h1.main-text>ul.main-mav>li.nav*5

outputs this:

<h1 class="main-text">
    <ul class="main-mav">
        <li class="nav"></li>
        <li class="nav"></li>
        <li class="nav"></li>
        <li class="nav"></li>
        <li class="nav"></li>
    </ul>
</h1>

If you dislike the default colour scheme, you can change it to the same as notepad++ in preferences.

[Service providers calling themselves entrepreneurs?]

Agreed! Bangkok I mainly met English teachers, but up here more or less every western guy I've met is a coder or marketing/website freelancer and every girl I've met is a blogger.

Also Stef - This invision forum software is really nice and clean. I stay logged in (through facebook I presume), and the notifications make sense.

 

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Thanks for answering the question.

When you say there's 4 levels, is 4 inherently more complex and desirable than 2 or 3? I'm just about ready to hit level 2, so I can concentrate on higher level business activities - increasing my knowledge, finding new clients,  hiring people.

My goal is to gradually become an expert in PHP + Wordpress, able to do any and all jobs which come my way, but actually doing almost none of them - just the really cool ones. 

My friend here has himself a developer from the Philippines, who primarily uses Divi. He's paid him $300 a month for a few years now - is this a realistic approach? Ideally, I need a guy who has a total understanding of PHP to build websites for me using Beaver builder & wordpress, but able to take on more complex jobs. My understanding of PHP isn't good enough right now to hire anybody to do more complex jobs yet - I just had to turn down a nice web app.

I think I could comfortably sell $4k-6k good month (2 or 3 x $2000 or similar), and using page builders there's more than enough time - slow clients not withstanding... for $300 in labour per month, the margins there are obviously huge. What do you think of this approach? Too much of a hack, or entrepreneurial (while it lasts)?

Cheers

Adam

[Service providers calling themselves entrepreneurs?]

Do you think it's ok for a service provider to call himself an entrepreneur?

I live in Chiang Mai where's there's an abundance of people who are working remotely. I've heard people refer to themselves and me as an entrepreneur. I usually tell them I'm not an entrepreneur yet, as I only provide 1 service.

I think you can start calling yourself an entrepreneur when you provide several services across minimum 2 separate businesses.

What do you think?

 

Adam