My current job sucks a**e. I have offered an oppourtunity to develop a modern dynamic website - only problem is my knowledge of HTML, php, anything web-related is pretty basic. So my question is this: How realistic is it to learn website stuff on the go, especially if working to a pretty tight deadline i.e. 2months? I'm not a coder by trade, but I have built some pretty complex stuff using vba, c#, batch, so I know I can learn code and to code.
Obligatory punt of places like Codecademy, Microsoft Virtual Academy/edx... Whether it's realistic to learn the fundamentals you need to to get the prospective job in a few months... i couldn't say... a lot depends on precise what you need to know, what you already know and how quicky you can fill the gaps.
Please for the love of god don't use Dreamweaver or a WYSIWYG. It adds a bunch of bloat to the code and makes it a pain to change after.
My only experience with it was around 6 years ago in secondary school and it went horrendously. I don't know if it's got much better. I suppose adults using it instead of kids trying to make flashy sites probably helps aswell Depending on the reqs of the site you might be able to do it in two months from scratch assuming you don't have to mess with any APIs or backends
As someone who was attempting learn too, I thought I'd throw in that I liked Brackets simply for the live preview, dunno if any other do this too. But that's just this scrubs opinion
