At the momet I am developing my portfolio of web sites. I have a coulpe of sites up on my portfollio page, which I haven’t got round to actually finishing yet (the page i mean), but they are all my own projects and none of them are brilliant!

Therefore I have decided to break out into the lucrative web design scene and I hope to devolpe both my portfollio and my coding skill at the same time. For my first couple of projects I intend to charge very little in order to get the word out there that I am available to do work.

I started my first new portfollio project the other day – TheStrats.com. This work graciously was diverted to me by WebWorks, where I did my work experience during the summer last year. I am basically giving this site away at a ridiculous price, but it is worth having the experience in my opinion.

For the Strats I am using WordPress. I was a bit sceptical about using it at first but then I looked at all the benifits.

For the designer:
1. Less work
2. Quicker and easier
3. Cost and time effective
For the client:
1. Costs less
2. They can constantly update their website without the need to pay someone to do it for them

The site is coming along well and I like the way that wordpress works, I will consider making more of my sites through wordpress. I also looked into Joomla today. I downloaded it and I am looking into it to see how good it really is. I have heard good things so I expect alot!

But at the end of the day I do want to eventully be a programer so i don’t want to get to carried away with using other peoples scripts, and figure out how to write them myself!!