Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Tue
11
Apr
2006

I Want My Web Skills Back

So, in the utter depression that I felt after being done with school that I hadn't learned a whole lot more about web than I did going into it, coupled with the fact that there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a "Web Designer" anymore (you have to be a programmer, database developer, Flash expert, etc), I gave up on it. Anybody who has been here in the last year knows that all I've done is changed my banner for the season. While trying to get my freelance/portfolio site online, I've become woefully aware of how much of my former skill is gone. Unfortunately, coding is not like riding a bicycle...it doesn't just come back. I'm having to relearn everything. I can't even write simple CSS anymore without looking up everything. *sigh* Use it or lose it, baby.

So, I'm starting to collect links again. I guess I should start my design blog back up one of these days. For now, I'll just have to collect them here.

Layout Gala: 40 CSS site layout templates
Code Snippets: a repository for web code-will have to check that out when I have time to see if anything is useful