So how did you get started?

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darkdrift said:
I got started with expedia pay per click, they paid 10 cents per click!

....this was before they monitored the IP addresses of the clicks :D SHHHH
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I bet you made some good money off that! Haha... :p
 


Dave said:
In year 6 at school ppl came from a High School to teach the basics of websites (i had messed around with this really crappy free web page thing), and after i'd learnt some basic HTML i just googled the web found some good forums, and 4 years later i know a lot more :D
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Sounds about right to me:)
 
darkdrift said:
Did, until my friends parents found the check and made him burn it...damn whitehat parents.
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You let your friend have the check? That's bad business.
 
I started out doing design and hosting... then realized that it's a sucky way to make money as you have to deal with clients all the time and it's become so competitve out there. So now onto this affiliate, website creation thing :)
 
I played lots of games for a long time, then surfed for a long time and it just came naturally...
 
I went from gaming to designing signatures to sitepoint..

And when I got to Sitepoint - I never looked back :)
 
I started with frontpage at age 13. Back then everyone was still using Windows 95. Frontpage seemed kind of lame so a few years went by before I got back into it. By then Dreamweaver was in version 3 ( it's v8 now) but it was the best software out there. Little by little I got back into it.

About a year ago I started to get more serious. I learned how to hand code HTML, and slowly began learning PHP, MySQL and CSS.
Now approaching 20, I took a year off from college and started a few sites and businesses. I'm very comfortable with administaring LAMP, I can code in PHP/CSS/xHTML/SQL, and I can easily bang out layouts in Photoshop.

I also enjoy finance so if I'm not coding then I'm following the markets. I trade based off the RSI charts but I plan to be trading (only) currencies by the end of next year.
My advice to those starting out is to never stop learning. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.
 
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