[rudasn]

I'm not a programmer but I still think I have something to share.

When I was 16 (ten years ago) I had an IRC channel about a very specific genre of music. I thought it would be cool to also have a website about it. So I used one of those geocities type of services to host my first website. I started doing reviews and listing upcoming concerts and stuff like that and soon I found my self maintaining a music website (rather than an IRC channel website). I started learning HTML & CSS, reading A List Apart and articles by Zeldman, Bowman, Mayer Molly and 456bereastreet. That's when I really got into web standards (when CSS Zen garden was created) and unfortunately started focusing more on the technology rather than the contents of my site.

When I was at uni. I dropped my side-project due to studying and stuff but kept reading & learning about what's going on. That was ~2004 when table-less designs were all the rage. To some extend I regret focusing more on the technology (HTML, CSS, Javascript) instead of my goal (the music website) but I'm glad that I really know "how to make websites".