Back in the Freelance world
I got my start in web work while I was a youth intern at First United Methodist Church Round Rock, Texas. I was just about to start 10th grade and was handed NetObjectsFusion and was told to go make a web site for the youth group. From that point on I have been working on web site and designs. When I got my job at Alchemy Systems I stopped doing freelance work because I didn’t have the time. No that Alchemy has changed from a web development shop to having just 2 products that we work on I have started to miss working with web sites.
This desire to start working with sites is what spurred me to to start this blog. Soon after a friend of mine showed me the company web site for his roomates company, I offered to help clean up the design some. About 3 days later I got a call from one of the guy I did a web site for about 5 years go asking if I was interested in creating a web site for his new realestate business. Seems like all I needed to do was start the ball rolling with this blog and everything fell in to place for more freelance work.
Revisiting Old Work
I worked on an issue today on a site I helped design and develop about 2 years ago. While I was poking around looking at code and using the site I kept thinking “Man this is BAD!”. It is interesting how as you continue to learn and expand the stuff that you have created in the past becomes something you dislike and don’t want to put your name to anymore. I have looked back at the old FUMC Round Rock web designs I created from the time I was sophmore in high school (1999/2000) to 2007 its amazing how different each one is and how much better I got a design and coding.
The goal should be to get to a point were the code that you are righting is good enough that it just needs updating never a full re-write. But with web work and how quickly standards and the “correct” way to do things change it hard to know if you are really getting there or not. Guess I will just have to wait a few years to find out.