Take up Freelance Programming Career...

Freelancing as a programmer is not easy and its not that hard either. Even if you don’t have any formal computer training still you can pick up programming as a career. Though the learning curve will be high for someone without any computer training but it will help a lot if you visit a lot of websites and are acquainted with its structure from the user standpoint.

You have to set your goals and plan your path very methodically and carefully. First comes what platform do you want to pick up as a freelance programmer. You can go the .NET way or you can go the PHP / MySQL open source way. Personally I would suggest you to go for the open source platform if you are new to the field. This is because if you are choosing the open source programming platform then you shall find many ready made source code repository everywhere on the internet and you can pick up the thing pretty easily.

First and foremost you shall have to pick up HTML and CSS. HTML stands for hypertext markup language and is the standard language in which all the web pages are written in. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. CSS is used to describe the style or look of web pages. It tells the browser about the formatting of text, links, tables etc on a web page. So it deals more with the look and feel of the web page.

Now web pages or websites are divided into two broad categories :-

1. Static Websites
2. Dynamic Websites

Static websites are used only to display information. They are not interactive. They do not accept any inputs from the user or give any any information to the user based on the user’s input. For example a corporate website only displaying information about a company is a perfect example of a static website.

Dynamic websites are such websites which are interactive. They