{"id":1780,"date":"2013-03-06T21:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:24:23","slug":"learn-what-wordpress-development-css3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/learn-what-wordpress-development-css3","title":{"rendered":"[Learnt what?] WordPress Development & CSS3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WordpressMy first networking event in Amstedam, OpenCoffee<\/a>, left me disappointed because there were a lot of freelancers hunting for customers.
\nIn between plenty of self-declared Social Media Experts<\/strong>, few “I make websites with WordPress”<\/em> caught my attention.<\/p>\n

For the web-analphabets, WordPress is a free software that runs ~20% of all the Internet websites around.
\nIt started as a blogging platform, to run blogs just like mine. Thanks to its simplicity and flexibility lots of developers started working on it and nowadays WordPress can be used to run a lot of different type of websites, from web shops, to event directories, magazines, job boards, product pages….<\/p>\n

I remember my thought was:\u00a0“We’re in 2012, how the heck those folks think they can still sell WordPress websites for living?”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That was a very “Daniele-the-IT-Engineer” comment… I was still placing the technical aspects on top of everything.<\/p>\n

Looking back, I should have instead complimented them for being able to\u00a0find customers<\/strong>\u00a0and to\u00a0sell<\/strong>\u00a0them those websites that are so simple to setup.<\/p>\n

YES WordPress is simple, YES anyone can manage it, YES no bit-breaking knowledge is required, but also YES it does what many business need, YES it keeps the costs for a website low and YES, people are willing to pay experts to help them.<\/p>\n

Little I know in fact that few months after I would have had the opportunity, brought to me by an\u00a0acquaintance in the Salsa scene, to start freelancing as a WordPress Developer, monetizing 6 years of experience with multiple WordPress-based personal websites (like this blog).<\/p>\n

Beside the irony that, once again, was the authenticity of the Salsa scene giving me opportunities and not the artificially created business networking\u00a0events, it turned out that I quite enjoy helping customers, mostly business starters like me, getting the website they want.<\/p>\n

And quite interesting, I realized how much I have to learn from the technical side! Customization, different layouts, little details, responsive design.
\nInternet has move on from the last time I wrote a website from scratch!<\/p>\n

So I had to invest some time catching up, getting to know a technology called CSS3<\/strong> that is pretty much the foundation of modern web.<\/p>\n

When I started my business adventure, I thought I was done with being a techie, that I would have outsourced all of that.
\nBut few months down the road, I understood that being technical is a bless because allows me to understand how to implement ideas. ..\u00a0I feel more\u00a0realistic.<\/em>
\nA common challenge of many business people I met is the lack of technical understanding, so they have to look for technical partners or specialized companies to make their ideas come true.<\/p>\n

Spending some time on the code, creating something or solving a problem is still quite enjoyable.<\/p>\n

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So my key\u00a0learning\u00a0are:<\/span><\/p>\n