[alanfalcon]

Thanks!

I'm in the fun position of essentially being a graphic designer made to be a web designer in a stingy startup environment where they don't want to pay someone to actually code things. Another designer and I put together a very sad website, and I wouldn't mind having a system for having includes for my header and footer, but even simple concepts like preprocessing scare me off. Heck, I run scared at the mention of the command line. I guess the only real answer is to bite the bullet and learn this stuff (I do frequent HN after all, you'd think I'd be more comfortable with some of these concepts).

[krapp]

Yeah, "biting the bullet" is probably a good idea. As someone with a graphic arts degree who's been a "web designer" for years, I can tell you the potential for making money at anything entirely with front-end and design skills seems vanishingly small. The days when having an ftp account and Notepad were all you needed are long, long gone.

I know enough git to be able to manage the basics (pulling and pushing) and a bit of command line stuff. If you ever get into working with web frameworks in just about any language, I think those are going to be kind of essential. It's probably not going to be as scary as you think though.

[moondev]

No problem, keep at it and keep reading hn! This might be a nice good look for you to try, I have heard good things: http://hammerformac.com/