Have you analyzed freelancing, learning JS or stretching layout on CMS?

Question

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I’m sitting on freelance for the 3rd day, and I understand what to do there without knowing how to make turnkey sites - nothing, well, almost nothing.

All orders ala - Make me a site on WP and other engines.

I started to learn JS and I think, but the point is, after some time I won’t really be able to take orders, because the majority still asks to make turnkey sites, few people need layout, it doesn’t mean that it’s not needed at all - no, it’s just the chance to take such an order for a beginner is very small, except to learn JS and go to the studio, or remotely, and then yes, I will be a full-fledged layout designer, besides, I plan to learn English, I have already started slowly, and then go to upwork or even go to the USA , if I win the green, or work on some kind of program, if at all possible.

In general, a lot of water. (more even more) I'm thinking heremaybe it’s stupid to learn how to pull the layout on WP and take orders calmly (just don’t dissuade me because I’m a potential competitor, preferably with arguments) I’ll say right away that my knowledge is in php 0, but from an early age I was fond of creating various portals, with engines, ranging from forum such as IPB, vBulletin, XenForo ending with WP, DLE, OpenCart, install all sorts of modules there, edit templates, it’s just that in WP it seemed to me more difficult to do, or I’m confusing something, because in DLE, as I remember, you just go to template, the name of the template, and there are a bunch of files with the main page and css files, but in WP there seemed to me a different system, or am I mistaken + too much php?

In general, what are your thoughts on this topic, learn how to stretch the layout on the CMS, go to what to make turnkey sites on WP, yet I still won’t say that I need the knowledge of JS right now, because all sorts of sliders, animations, etc. has been in the form of plugins for a long time, just connect and use, another thing is that in pure JS and Jquery I can’t fix anything or understand the code at all. And how long does it take to learn how to build sites on WP, is it difficult to find the necessary modules (popular owl-type sliders, some kind of timers, smooth scrolling, css animation with js so that when scrolling, animations work and blocks appear and stuff like that, in general, to create modern Landing Page sites) - if you take into account all the nuances of what I will need to learn, what is better to choose in your opinion, I’ll say right away that my deadlines are burning and I want to earn money right now and at this moment,

Answer 1

The evolution is as follows:
- I pull the design on the sites
- I pull and add widgets
- I'll look at other CMS
- I'll see what the framework
is - I make sites on the framework
- I'll look at other frameworks
- there is an order to finalize the site, I'm a dock in this framework
- oh, this is a difficult task, except no one will take me, I will break the price
- I don’t know further . There are enough
tasks except for turnkey. And they don't pay well. But you need to know something very well. And you can start with wp, there really is a lot of work.

Answer 2

Tl;dr: JavaScript if you plan to become a programmer, HTML/CSS otherwise.
Stretching layout on a CMS implies some knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and server-side language (PHP in the case of WordPress). Those. ideally, if you want to become a full-stack programmer, you need to know everything.
Generally speaking, JavaScript and HTML/CSS are closely related things. However, JavaScript can be used on its own (on the server, for example), without being tied to the frontend. The scope of JavaScript is now large: front-end (jQuery and fifty more libraries and frameworks for every taste), back-end (Node.js) and even GUI.
In any case, you will waste time (I don’t think that understanding HTML5 / CSS3 will be faster than understanding JavaScript - most likely the opposite), however, having JavaScript in the arsenal, there will potentially be more choice of work, and such work will be paid much higher, than layout (patch for a bunch of templates). Although a good front-end developer is also expensive.
In any case, whatever you choose, learn the basics - HTML/CSS, not layout (although in general it's the same thing), JavaScript, not jQuery, Python, not Django, Ruby, not Ruby on Rails. Well, PHP, not Laravel. Although I can not say that the latter is worth learning at all.

Answer 3

Both. You need to be able to use both WP and JS (preferably also jQuery) to know

Answer 4

well, what's the problem then?

Answer 5

learn of course, there is a block diagram for wp, not so difficult. take for starters and make some child theme for a known template - practice saying so