Welcome to my web blog. No, that’s not a spelling mistake; this is my blog about the web. About how it works, what’s going on in the world of the web, and no doubt some bits and pieces about my own work and development. Longer articles will appear on my main site at Somerandomnerd.com. And this is going to stay with the default Wordpress theme until I get round to creating my own. (At least, that’s the plan- I’m sure it will be interesting to see how it actually develops…)

A bit about me- I’m Scott, and I’m training myself to be a web developer. Although I do enjoy getting involved in design work, I’m mainly interested in the coding side- ie. making pages that work well is more important to me than making them look good. But my aim is to be able to do everything involved in creating a website, with the goal of running my own agency and working full time for myself.

I’m a strong believer in web standards, so I make my pages in HTML with CSS. For the behind the scenes techy stuff, I use PHP with a MySQL database. I’m still learning about Javascript, but as my main focus is on making accessible sites, particularly for use on mobile devices, it’s not a priority.

At some stage, I will start using Dreamweaver for the design- however, I want to know how all the code actually works; I don’t want to find myself in a position where I need a particular application to build a site. So at the moment I’m doing all my coding in either Notepad++ (which I prefer because of it’s code-colour-coding style) or Bluefish. I prefer to work in Linux where possible, although I’m still finding my way, so expect some blog entries about that too.
There will be at least one update every week- probably more, more often than not.

Check back for updates!

March 16th, 2007 | Me | No comments