First part of the questionnaire, when did you get interested in becoming a webmaster, programmer, designer, whatever. How old were you? Second part of the questionnaire, how did you learn what it is that you do? Take classes, learn from friends, learn on the internetz?
I learned from friends of mine, after I saw that its pretty cool to chill on the couch on your laptop and make cash, i got into it and started taking classes for HTML, making webites, PHP, CSS etc.
i read /read/ still reading --went to forums/bought ebooks and most importantly - kept up with latest trends in internet marketing from Dp. its 4 years now and still learning .
I was about 19. (I'll be 22 next month) I had no car at the time. I spent alot of time online so I thought... Eh, I wonder if I can find a job and work online? I ended up Googling so much. It went on for a while. Then I found GPT sites. Used them, made a simple static html site to promote their affiliate programs, then I discovered affiliate NETWORKS and the rest went from there. Making blogs, forums, selling sites blah blah blah. I've tried my hand in a few different niches. I've spent DAYS online reading till sun up some nights. You got to read to learn! One thing I never did was spend money to learn how to make money. I knew that was a no no from the beginning.
Started blogging about 6 years ago. But only really got into it over the last 4. Have branched out into building sites from that in the last 3 years.
Now i am 18 ( 7 m to 19 )i started my blogs 2 years before and i did lots of mistakes while blogging which increased my knowledge daily. For more than 1 year my earnings are just $4. After that there is a sudden increase in earning $157 first payout. Then i created lots of sites and gained more and more knowledge about webmaster. Now recently i have started a forum and going to start a dropshipping business.
I started my webmaster career when i was 17 and i learned everything from internet and some other help from my bro as he is a software engineer too ... Well its been 5 years now and i still search loads of thing on internet regarding all this work .. I myself did'nt gt it that what to do with the poll??
As of right now I am still learning, here at DP is one of the best sources for information, I started a few years back.
I was reading "make money online" blogs since I was 15. I made a few blogs that became failures I didnt take blogging seriously until a few days ago!!! I started a blog a few days ago and Im going straight to the top. Just give me two years and my blog will be failrly popular!!!! So I geuss I'm more of a Web-Amateur!!!
I became interested in programming in the MS-DOS days, went to school, forgot most of what I learned, decided PHP was cool so I started reading up on that language. It seems like everytime I find a way to support myself on the internet they deem it illegal...... The MP3 days were very good but I was "officially" warned in about 1999....Time to find something else
Started my webmaster career 3-4 hours back. Learn everything from net itself (from no classes and no friends). BTW still learning in each days activities. DON.
I learned a lot about being a webmaster at my first job. I knew HTML and learned from my colleagues and Internet.
I wanted to become a web developer since I was 14 Then spent more time on graphic designing, and had didn't do any web-development for some time! But then recently, (earlier this year) we had a website development competition at our school, and I won it from a body of about 60 students, that all made excellent independent websites. Winning that made me, want to go back to Web development and that's exactly what I did! Everything I know, is from self learning off the internet