Yes as I’ve been honing my web skillz I realized how very important a faq or a faw (frequently asked worm) or a fab (frequently asked block) is, but because I’m so very lame in Illustrator, I opened Bryce and tried to remember how to use the darn program.

Then there were my excursions into logo making:

I wonder if I’ll ever get good at that? I took Illustrator classes but I open that program and I can’t remember how to do anything in there. I even had a hard time in Bryce and I used that for years! This post will probably be too huge to load.

Oh and Akismet has officially blocked over 20,000 spam now. I have under 1000 comments, how sad is that? But my penis is ginornmous!!

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Is not making any bloody money. I was told I was charging too much, more than those “expert” and “professional” coders. Funny the one job I got beat out of had 807 errors! I originally said 121 errors, but that was just on the front page. And the guy gave him a 5 star rating. I mocked up a site for him and my validated perfectly.

So yesterday another gave me a hard time, even though I bid lower than the only other bidder.  So then he asked me if I knew how to fix a couple boxes on his website (to prove myself, I guess)  that the professional had all mucked up. So I did, and I let him know he had 33 validation errors just on his front page.  But I’m apparently not a professional because I have yet to get my first job through Elance. I do have a portfolio up on there but sloppy coders are getting all the jobs.

This guy has it right: My Review: Elance.com isn’t a Scam But…..

I recently bid on a job at Elance. That guy was the only one who has even contacted me (I guess that’s progress). He hired someone else but since I have nothing better to do and I figure it’s good practice, I remade his site (on my server). I went and made sure it validated and then I got the brilliant idea to see if the other guy’s did.

My Result: Passed

His Result: 121 Errors, 3 warning(s)

Nice huh? Not to mention he made his page with tables and most of his errors are from all that inline styling. At least he could have put it in the css. Don’t use bloody tables for layout!. That is so obsolete, yet there he is with the paid job and here I am jacking around.