Wet behind the ears.

So the journey begins here and is signified by the start of this blog. The journey? Well I am in the process of (as in waiting for results) graduating from my degree in Multimedia Computing, therefore I am starting the arduous task of finding an agency to hire me. I really want to join an agency as I think it will further me as a creative, much more than going at it freelance like I am now.

With this said I am really enjoying my time — post uni — working on freelance work, and with every job I complete I find I become a considerably better designer/front-end developer. [note — I have no idea what it is I am. Tried to work it out but can't find an answer]

Though none of this is what I intended to post about. What I mean to ramble on about is the intended purpose of this blog and more importantly answer the question I kept on asking myself … What’s the point?

I have been wanting to start a blog for some time now but have been putting it off as I figured it would be, as the saying goes, teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs. I am still yet to graduate and have only been taking commercial projects for a year or two — to use yet another saying — I am a bit wet behind the ears.

Recently I reached a conclusion on the matter; No matter how wet my ears are there will be someone out there with slightly damper ones. So this is my attempt to give back to the community the knowledge and resources’ it gave (and still gives) me when I was starting out.

In a way this is my pre-emptive apology to those who may read something on this blog and think ‘this is horse sh**e’. The posts might be technically crude, they maybe even lean on the side of incorrect but hopefully they will be enough for some other WBTE designer to get on the right tracks.

I plan to post hints, tips and code snippets in the ’shorts’ section of this blog. My aim is to make them the kind of thing that can be helpful off the back of a quick google search (and a boost in traffic wouldn’t hurt too). It is in this section, ‘features’, that I shall be posting tutorials, how-to’s and reviews that need the extra space and design this section can offer.

The first post is going to be the wet-behind-the-ears designers guide to git and github. I have spent a while searching for the perfect version control system for the non-techy and I think git and github are just that. Anyway, that’s for later on next week.