Hello! I am a budding web developer trying to solidify my skills. I think I pretty much understand the basics of HTML/CSS and how they work together, but after using Bootstrap to make a theme for wordpress and rig up a system for managing my content, I'm realizing I don't really know the best practices for doing things. I'd like to eventually take on clients and work as a programmer/developer/designer but I'm sort of stuck on what I should read or focus on to get better at the basics before moving on. If anyone could take a look at http://RichProducer.com and tell me what they think of how I've put it together and what's wrong, that would be great. Hopefully it can be a learning experience for anyone who reads the thread.
It takes more than just a look at the output to really assess a theme. You need to look at how the parts are put together, what use is made of wordpress functions etc. You'll find some here are scathing about the use of both wordpress and bootstrap but there is a market for both and you'll learn and earn a lot by doing both. Go through some of the themes that are available for free as well as the default wordpress themes. Look at how they're constructed and work out why they've made the coding decisions they've made. Were they considering reusability readability creative lazy incompetent misunderstood what a function was meant to do Taking a look at your site WTF is with all the javascript on the page. Looks like something to do with Google but I can't see what. Unless the javascript is really minor it should be in a separate file and WP allows them to be linked from plugins and themes. Personally I don't like the colours or the layout and the whole site looks MFA (made for adsense)
'm pretty sure that's something with the google adsense plugin. I saw that in the script also and was like wtf haha. I haven't started messing with the colors yet trying to get a base level on content on each section to make further stylistic decisions. I'll have to examine some wordpress themes to see how they work because I know I'm not doing it right haha. Should I start trying to learn php or just focus on strengthening my html? It basically is made for adsense at the moment. I want to provide top quality resources to producers to build and audience first and then look at some monetization options. Until then the only way I can think to monetize is adsense.