Learn to Build, Market & Grow Websites Like a Professional
So… You’ve decided becoming a freelance web developer sounds like a great idea. Maybe you like creating things. Maybe you enjoy solving problems. Maybe you heard developers make six figures while drinking expensive coffee and working from a beach somewhere. Let’s clear something up right away.
You’ll probably spend more time explaining why Internet Explorer is dead, recovering hacked WordPress websites, fixing DNS records, and convincing clients that Comic Sans isn’t a “modern luxury font” than you will sipping margaritas on a laptop by the ocean.
Welcome to freelancing
I’ve been building websites for years, and somewhere between writing custom WordPress plugins, debugging JavaScript at 2 AM, wrestling CSS that insists everything belongs three pixels to the left, and explaining—for the hundredth time—that Google rankings don’t happen overnight, I figured it might be helpful to write everything down.
This handbook is the result.
Think of it as the collection of tutorials I wish someone had handed me before I started.
What You'll Learn (Besides New Creative Ways to Curse at Your Monitor)
This isn’t another collection of copy-and-paste tutorials. Everything here comes from real projects, real clients, real mistakes, and occasionally real panic. You’ll learn what actually works—not just what looks good in a YouTube thumbnail.
If you also want to learn a little bit of my story and how I ended up where I am (I make a living doing what I love), then visit this article on How I got Started.
Chapter 1: Things to consider before you start.
We will absolutely get into WordPress… everything about WordPress and coding, but if you are seriously starting from the beginning, then we must start from the beginning.