Comments on: Andy Sowards, Your All-Around Web Guy

By: Andy Sowards

Andy Sowards — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:33:11 +0000

@Misty – Thanks for the kind words Misty! You are an inspiration as well! Keep on rocking!

By: Misty Belardo

Misty Belardo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:21:41 +0000

Great interview. I always enjoy reading about Andy’s work and how he has progressed with his work. His dedication is tireless and his love for his family is inspiring. He will always be one of my teachers! Love following him on Twitter as he always has wonderful things to share. And truly honored to be co-writer with him at BitRebels.com! Rock on Andy!!

By: Andy Sowards

Andy Sowards — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:25:07 +0000

@Domenick – Thanks for the kind words bro! I am glad to hear that you seem to be doing very well with your SEO stuff! SEO is very important these days. Glad my story has inspired you, and Yes, Hard work does pay off!

As far as your question goes – In my experience, HTML/CSS/PHP/JS etc. all take time and dedication to really be ‘good’ at them – Since there is so much there to learn, you could probably sit down right now, and study them non stop for months, and still not know everything. However, with practice, you can learn enough to get by fairly quickly. So basically just dive in, and get your hands dirty often, and you will have it down in no time .

If your main goal for learning them is purely to deal with wordpress, then perhaps you should just check out some sites dealing with wordpress tips, and focus on that. If you focus on wordpress, you should learn the other stuff pretty easily with some supplemental studying on the subjects (html, css, php) here and there.

WordPress can be very confusing for people that don’t know a lot of PHP, or how it works, so perhaps studying PHP more would be the most helpful – since WP is built on PHP and inherits a lot from it.

If you need some good WP resources – I would recommend the following sites to browse through:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/
http://digwp.com/ by Chris Coyier and Jeff Star

and posts like this are always helpful:

http://speckyboy.com/2008/03/08/63-essential-wordpress-hacks-tutorials-help-files-and-cheats/

You can learn a lot from just going through the examples and trying to wrap your head around them.

Good luck on your Ventures!

By: Domenick

Domenick — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:38:55 +0000

Nice bio brotha. I’m alot like you in some ways{ got in the game a little late 32yrs old}, I do freelance SEO and basically taught myself through reading and experimenting with my own sites when I first started internet/affiliate marketing. As time went on I started getting rankings and making money in some competitive niches, so not too long ago I got into the biz of helping brick and mortars get rankings and leads which is alot easier than doing niche/affiliate marketing at least with me anyways.

Your story is inspiring to me, hard work does pay off. I’m following you on twitter and digg and think you are very talented.

Question, coding is not really my thing, but I learned html, and a little php and css, is there anything you can recommend that I read maybe to get my skills up a little more so I can get better at customizing wordpress themes?

Once again, keep doing what your doing brotha, Peace, Health & Prosperity to you and your family.

@303seosolutions

By: lizlanuzo

lizlanuzo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:58:59 +0000

hi guys! thanks for leaving your comments. Andy – it’s my pleasure. keep up the great work as well.

By: Andy Sowards

Andy Sowards — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:30:27 +0000

@Liz – Thank you so much for taking the time to interview me! I am honored! Keep up the great work!

@Victoria – Thank you! You are too kind

@Annukka – Thanks for following me my friend

I appreciate you all!

By: Annukka (@kerppu, tweet!)

Annukka (@kerppu, tweet!) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:29:54 +0000

Nice article, I follow his tweets and always interesting to have a peek at the person behind the @.

By: Victoria Blount

Victoria Blount — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:48:27 +0000

There is no end to Andy Sowards talents, he is a designer/developer that puts us all to shame. I find myself in awe of Andy’s achievements, and the amount of skills he has under his belt. These interviews are inspiring and insightful but at times intimidating.