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You've seen all the good things about front-end development and how much money you made and you're just trying to find the fastest way you can become a front-end developer. I want to give you guys three tips here that's going to help you put yourself in a position to be that top front-end developer and demand the six-figure salary that you want and actually get it too. So, first of all guys, let me tell you a quick story. I have been not necessarily a friend of front-end development. I want to be honest with you. I've always been a database or a back-end developer and I only do front-end work when I have to and I dabbled in it from time to time but it's not my specialty. It's not something that I do on a regular basis so I want to give you guys context of that but I've done a ton of front-end web development work in the past and I want to tell you a quick story about some of the struggles I had. So, first of all guys, me being the back-end developer that I am, I always thought that the front-end developers or the content management of software was not real developers. This is how I felt for years and it wasn't until about eight years ago I changed my perspective because I was an ego-driven developer at the time and I always say I'm going to write all my code by myself. That's what makes me a developer, writing lines of code. But at the end of the day guys, I don't think that way anymore. It's all about solving the problem and guys, the reason I changed the way I think about this is because I didn't make a deadline. The customer was expecting a certain level of service. I didn't provide it for them because at the end of the day I was trying to write the code myself and there was a can solution out there and that can solution was WordPress. Before WordPress guys, I used to do all of my coding in Dreamweaver or if they had a Microsoft product, I even forgot the name of it now, Front Page or something like that, that you basically go in and you had an HTML layer and then you can actually put in your code inserts and actually build each element of that web page, page by page. And depending on your coding skills and your global variables and your architecture, it can be a cluster mess. But at the time I was a developer, I felt comfortable doing that and I felt like I was providing a solution. Obviously I met, I didn't meet the deadline and that project was a failure. After going back and looking at that project to see why I failed is because I refused to use WordPress. WordPress was the solution at that time. I could have done it in 10% of the time. The customer would have had a better experience. Life would have been good. Yeah, I would have took ego hit because I didn't write the code, but who cares? At the end of the day, the customer want to make sure they can provide, they can provide their good experience on their website. And the best way to do that was WordPress and I neglected it. It wasn't until I saw John Simon. If you guys know John Simon, go check him out. Simple programmer, his webpage or his YouTube channel. He's one of my mentors, but he, at the time, I looked it up to him, I bought his course and he was talking about WordPress. I'm like, John, what you talking about WordPress for, man? We're developers. We supposed to write our own code. And at the end of the day, he like, I wear multiple hats. Sometimes I have to wear my developer hat. Sometimes I have to wear my manager hat, my owner hat, all these different hats. But at the end of the day, if you ain't solving the problem as fast, as efficient as possible, you're not a developer. And he went into the details of why he used WordPress. He don't want to have to support code unless it's something that they need, don't reinvent your wheel and all this stuff. So at that point in time, I was like, if John uses WordPress, who are me to talk about that? I can't use it. And then at that point on, I start dabbling in WordPress and just looking at it. And now every project that I do now, all my personal websites, every client that I use, going to have at least a WordPress website, they may use other CRM depending on what their current web stack and software packages that they use, but it will not be something that I wrote from scratch. It took my software development skills, front end development to the next level guys. Now I didn't have to do any of the front end development work. I can outsource all that, or I can buy templates from WordPress that handle most of it. And the best side about it is, it is mobile responsive for tablets, mobile or whatever that may be. At that point, I became a really efficient front end developer. And I can focus on the back end stuff myself. You guys can use the same options for yourself may not be WordPress, it may be another CRM. I know on the dot net side, you got some Umbrocos and other CRMs that work. But at the end of the day, as a front end web developer, you have to find ways to be able to leverage other people's code. Don't create stuff from scratch. And that's going to be the way to success for you as a front end developer. That user experience, making sure you deliver on time, something that's been tested, something that works with not only that customer custom stuff, but it works in a lot of different other ways that you haven't tested. But WordPress or whoever was the template designer or the template or theme designer, that's who you're going to go with. And then you can code the other 20% of the project you like. So number one, don't be learning from scratch. Go ahead and leverage things like WordPress. And then you start learning, you can actually start reading their HTML, their CSS, their JavaScript. And you can be learning this in the process. And then you can just rinse and repeat as you do with other projects. Leverage those open source projects, guys. This is what's going to put you in the best position to be the best developer you can. I talk about this in my seven step guide. If you haven't already, go ahead and check that out. I keep that thing updated. So check that out. Number two, guys, you are not a designer. You're a developer. A lot of you designers came over here and say, I'm going to make developer money designing, which some projects allow for that, but a lot of them want you to focus on function, function, function. What's his name? Fun, fun, function, function, function, function. You have to make sure that use experience going through that application, that web app is as smooth as possible. Sometimes that's making it pretty. A lot of time is putting the right elements in the right spot at the right time. And that's going to take a lot of development, function, getting information from the client to be able to make those types of decisions. Everything's not going to be pretty, guys. You're not going to be designing everything. You have to make sure you make sure it's functional, function, function, function. So you need to do that. That's number two. Number three, don't get burnt out, guys. Don't get overwhelmed. Start with the small projects first. I can't stress this enough. A lot of you guys coming in, like I did, I'm going to do everything. I'm going to be the expert friend and developer. I'm going to learn all the frameworks. I'm going to learn everything on the Django site. I said Django. Drupalosite. I can't even think about it, but you guys comment below if you know what I'm talking about. But at the end of the day, guys, you have to make sure that you start on smaller projects first. Don't take on too much stuff. Don't try to learn too much stuff. This is my main philosophy. Let's start on those small projects first. Let's get those quick wins. Let's expand your knowledge space as you complete projects. Do not go out here and learn stuff that's not going to help you move forward and faster on your current projects. I understand if you see the company's web stack and you don't have an active project and you think, hey, let me learn this because it's going to help me explain my value to the company that much more and be able to solve those projects faster. Okay, I'm good with that. But don't get carried away and go off on that field and working on something that you are never going to use and you're getting your hobbies of coding mixed up with your professional side. On your hobby side, you can learn any and everything on your own terms. You don't have to be anything specifically about that customer project. But on your professional side, the side that makes money, put food on your table, it's all about solving the customer problem. You got to make sure you have that line to differentiate that. I don't have that problem because coding is not my passion. But for the people who is their passion, you have to worry about that. So guys, do you agree? Comment below. Let me know your experience. If you disagree, comment below. Also, let's go ahead and start a conversation guys. If you have additional questions guys for me, let me know. Comment below. Guys, I'm rebuilding a lot of stuff on my website. I'm redoing my membership site. So go ahead and check that out. Support the channel, like, subscribe to the content. If you haven't already hit that bell guys. I'm gonna be doing a lot of things to kind of create a custom experience for each of you guys. I understand that can way of doing things may not be the best way. So I'm gonna be improving that. And I'm gonna need you guys feedback to really kind of help me make those right decisions and really kind of put things in perspective for you guys. So like, subscribe to the content. Comment below. Check out my seven step guide right here. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.