Some might argue that working every day on your personal projects can cause a burnout due to the constant strain you put on yourself. You don’t feel comfortable being shackled to a daily schedule, especially when you haven’t yet developed a habit out of it. But also, if you take a longer break you will, in turn, need a lot of acceleration to get back into orbit.
I am taking a course on developing graphical user interfaces, and the topics we cover span from HTML and CSS to PHP and MySQL.
Let’s pause for a bit. These abbreviations sound awfully geeky so I’m warning you, but once again, the fundamental principles apply, and these examples can be applied to any other subjects you might be working with. I want you to be able to apply the principles in any field or skill.
Studying is a subject a lot of us dread. We’ve all been through some form of schooling in our lives, and know how uninteresting and monotonous cramming information into our brain can be. I remember hating the home economics class back in junior high school because of all the cleaning we had to do. Plus, the food wasn’t good either. Studying can be a pain in the butt, but fortunately it can be turned into a passion.
We have to accept the fact that if we want to succeed in life, it usually takes a lot more than just filling out a lottery ticket. If we want to get a job as a sushi chef, we need to become experts in that field. Or, we might want to take up a new hobby, say, Tai Chi, which then calls for an action to start learning it.
I don’t support the idea of being a jack-of-all-trades. I’ve always believed in mastery and focus. I however think that people who want to be successful should consider learning certain skills that can serve as valuable assets at the workplace as well as in life in general.
A few days ago, I wrote a post about how tutorials are an effective way to learn technical skills. Today I’m going to be sharing a collection of hand-picked beginner’s web design tutorials that I’ve personally found useful.
1. HTML Beginner Tutorial
HTML
If you want to learn how to create websites, this is where you should start. HTML Beginner Tutorial starts from the basics. In fact, it even shows you how to print a row of crude text without any tags or decorative attributes.
2. CSS Beginner Tutorial
CSS
CSS lets you decorate your website with cosmetic attributes. If HTML represents the skeleton of your website, CSS is the flesh (and a bit of makeup too).
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