I’m ready to play!

I’ve completed the WordPress professional course, and I’m stoked to say I’m ready to build some dope sites! You can see my latest practice project at https://soverynoma.com It’s a fully functional site for a fictional company called Accelerate Marketing. If you’re wondering about the domain name, I bought SoVeryNoma for my mom’s future project: a Sonoma Valley centered website. I am now officially ready to start building it when design is complete.

WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System) that facilitates website building and is more advanced and customizable than advertised ‘competitors’ like Square Space or Wix. More than a third of the entire internet uses WordPress. Some advantages over cheap website-builders are: superior SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – so the site will be found more often by being higher on the Google search; customizable layout – so the site won’t have to look like thousands of other sites; and its free!

For my next project, I’ll be making my first professional portfolio site to present my work! This domain (ProgressCreation) will be used for my portfolio, and this site will be one of my example projects. The sites I’ve made so far will be included, and there will be more projects I’ll be adding from my classes. Then I’ll have a nice little web-developer site I can use to land some freelance income making websites while I continue my voyage into the tech world.

There is still so much to learn, and I have many classes left to take from Skillcrush. So far I’ve learned three languages – HTML, CSS, and PHP – JavaScript is next. After that I’ll be diving into a web design course, which will add to my website making skills. Beyond that, there are courses I’ve purchased including data analytics, user experience, web marketing and app building I’m excited to explore before I start targeting a field to focus in on. I’m pumped on the myriad opportunities, though I can see it being overwhelming, it’s so good for the passion levels!