Well, technically, I would be considered a web author/scripter, as the languages I know are authoring and scripting, but programmer sounds a lot cooler. The first time I ever used a web language was way back in 2002 or so. I needed to know HTML for some geocities site I was making. I gave up on it.

Then, shoot forward a couple of years, and you’ve got me working on my Chaos World shrine. You needed to know HTML for that. I almost gave up on that too. However, I grabbed Nvu, or composer, (can’t remember what is was back then) and had it make my code. Then, shoot forward a few months, and I looked at the code and saw how bad it looked, and I decided to learn HTML for myself.

Now, we’re two years later and speaking HTML is almost as natural as speaking English or Spanish (maybe even more so). Seeing code that doesn’t fit the XHTML standards hurts, and using css is becoming more and more easy each day. However, did I stop there? Almost, yeah. But I decided to move onto JavaScript.

And I must tell you this: two weeks and 300 pages later, I’m really glad I went through with this. There’s few things that satisfy like watching a script you spent an hour and a half on in action, and with no stupid errors in the “Error Console”. Although I’m not even half of the way through my tutorial book (yeah, it’s around 800 pages), the lessons get more and more interesting as I learn more about the language and the browsers. Will I stop after this? No, definitely not. I’m moving onto XML, AJAX and PHP after this. Then I might quit