Rob, I've seen what others have written, and you're at all like me, you're feeling pretty depressed right now, wondering where there is ANYTHING you've done right.
The views you've seen up to now are right. Expressed by very experienced and professional web developers. So don't go dismissing what they say. But you haven't done a rotten job. It's a hell of a lot better than most of us do on our first few efforts. And it all works, which is more than you could have said about my first sites. Technically speaking, your site is fine for an amateur production, but I'm afraid the others are right, since you're aspiring to becoming a pro at this, you have to be measured by pro standards. What we're all either using nowadays, or struggling to come to grips with is using CSS2 to handle layout and fonts and colours. That will be a very fruitful thing for you to learn about. If you go looking for jobs next year and can show that you're proficient with standards-compliant CSS2 sites, you'll be streets ahead of the other people competing with you for jobs. Take a look at the zen garden project and you'll see how powerful it is for people wanting to earn a living at this. http://www.csszengarden.com/ is one of the sites in the circle. They all have the same content, but only differ by different style sheets. You can click on the links on the page and see how the site changes totally with a different style sheet and nothing else changed. The other important thing you could do between now and the beginning of the year is get hold of a good ColdFusion book and work your way through it. I suggest Barry Moore's book "Cold Fusion MX - From Static to Dynamic in 10 steps" which is priced about student budget level. It takes you through a project to rebuild a pretty standard html site in coldfusionMX including a shopping cart. It's not immensely detailed but takes you through all the things you're going to need to know for about 80% of your life as a new ColdFusion pro. There are other more comprehensive books of around 1000 pages, but they aren't priced for students and I think if you thoroughly understand all the concepts and techniques in Barry's book you'll be at least as proficient as half the people I deal with and more proficient than most. What you'll need to earn a living as a coldfusion pro is a sound basic knowledge of all the routine tasks you have to do, and a good overall knowledge of the way cold fusion works, but you don't have to know the ins and outs of every last tag. There is good help on line for that, and of course resources like CFAUSSIE. You'll soon learn most of the tags by just using them. As long as you know that there is a tag that does this job or that job, you can find it in the CFDOCS. Rob, you have plenty to learn, but then so do the rest of us. You're going to do ok. You've made a great start. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob shaw Sent: Monday, 10 November 2003 3:36 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] my first cf page Good afternoon, I am a student at qantm, I have developed this website for a small company and was wondering what people thought of it.... And most importantly what would you change if you could.... Any feedback would be much appreciated. I am looking at doing this next year and i want to know what level potential employers (you) are looking for. Thanks people --------------------------------------------------------- Robert Shaw, 0422 222515 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
