What is your first project in web ?

Question

how did u started designing websites ?

Answer 1

My first project was remaking a photoshop document (psd) into code. It wasn’t that hard, having something to look off of. But that’s where I began.

Answer 2

I heavily modified a console-based roguelike RPG (a Perl script by Joe Creaney) to add more weapons, monsters, etc and then converted it to web (HTML/CSS/JS) with point-and-click or keyboard controls and graphics that were so bad calling them graphics is offensive to real art. Then I added a map where the top is a town and below it was a badly randomly-generated endless dungeon full of monsters and loot. Then a shop that was persistent during a playthrough so what you bought wouldn't be there any more and what you sold would.

This was back in the 2000's when floppy drives were still common on desktop machines, and long before I could pay for a machine so I ended up using what I could find in the garbage and Frankenstein into a working machine. Knowing the PC was at risk to die any time I made backups of my code, but being a poor kid the best I could do was cheap floppy disks... Anyone who knows how cheap floppy disks are knows where this is heading.

Answer 3

The PC randomly stopped turning on one day altogether, and I did not have working/useful extra parts or machines lying around that I could make work with it or make it work with. The backups, because they were improperly stored, were corrupt beyond use and the only code I had access to any more was the original Perl script with none of my modifications.

I kept the hard drive for a while after and tried in another working machine eventually, but it appeared to have been fried. Most likely that entire machine died that night along with all my code up until that point, though IDK what fried it. This was before I knew about GitHub and before Cloud storage was something there was enough of that it was handed out free like candy.

Within the last year I tried to find that original Perl script but it seems to no longer exist online. After an hour or two of searching I instead decided to look for Joe Creaney. I had no idea how old he was, but the script was a beginner-intermediate level so I figured he was still learning at the time when it was written and should still be alive. Within minutes I found his old personal homepage + email address, then took some time to write and ask if it was the person I was looking for and if he still happened to have a copy of the code that he please share it for nostalgia purposes.

He sent the code and seemed kinda shocked that someone was interested in it, let alone had played with it or knew his name. I haven't done anything with it, but have it in my email saved as my only favorite ever so it can't get lost easily.