1.what is the average annual income for a person who creates websites personally and commercially?
2.what are some different jobs i could possibly obtain with an html/css/xhtml certificate? (could it make me more than the wage i make now… 9.00/hr 40 hours a week sometimes more all physical labor) pretty much busting your ass for nothin haha
3.if i went and got my certificate/degree in html/css/xhtml, what should i do next to further my education (learn javascript? for example)
4.is “microsoft IIS” a way i can host my own site from my pc without paying a hosting company?
ive been using ws3schools.com to teach myself this stuff made 2 of my own websites (both have validated xhtml transitional and css) and i took one of there example quizes and got 80% correct on it out of 20 questions.. should i go ahead and take the actual exam?
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1. I don’t know but it can go from scraping by to amazing. Look at the designers of Facebook and youtube. I make about $25,000 a year as a side job creating websites.
2. You could work for someone or for a company but in general HTML/CSS/XHTML are easy and basic languages. You would make decent wages but not a ton (you would scrape by). Learn dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. Then learn databases like MySQL (SQL code)
3. Go to ITT Tech or somewhere and get at least an associates degree in computer science. It will teach you more intricate code like C++. This will get you good money.
4. It could be but I would not recommend it. Your personal Windows computer is not secure enough and a server should be only a server.
Use Linux Apache to host a web server. Take an old computer and get Ubuntu-server. Install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). This is everything you need to host your site locally and is free, stable and easy to setup. To host on the internet you will need to buy a domain from godaddy and link it to your server. You will need to sign up with a Dynamic DNS service (http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/) to host from home, with a nameserver. This will allow your site to be access via a domain name and bind it to the dynamic IP.