Front-end developer, in Melbourne Australia

Put together an ecommerce website in two days and a photo of my dog, https://www.americanyarns.com.au incredibly rewarding and pays the rent Also 3 or 4 projects related to helping high schoolers to find their first dev jobs

also in 10. Didn't know about this feature. Thanks

Just added my website. Thank you!

this is very nice, impressive at first glance, and very useful when studied some more. here a few more useful sources for designers, front-end developers, illustrators and learners

http://colorschemedesigner.com/#

http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr

First time I used Shazam, was so amazed. Had to download the original paper, still couldn't understand well enough how it worked, in order to code it. now lets get to work on it.

Great article, thank you

Hey Andrew, sorry I can't help. having the same problem here, seems like CSS, html, JavaScript, PHP, a nice website, and a github account, just don't make the cut to earn a decent living. Every company asks for years and years of professional experience.

If I find the solution I'll share it with you anyway. hope you do the same. best of luck, keep working and leave you a nice motivational video http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ujMP41Rphzc

> Every company asks for years and years of professional experience.

Nope, every company wants someone who can do the job. Getting past the HR door is the tick box of years of professional experience.

Tell you what, start a company today, walk round to twenty small businesses in the business park nearest you and ask them "if you had a button on your website and the customer could press it, what would that button do?"

Listen to what they say. One of them will be something you can code, and hey presto, real customer, professional experience.

This is really good, clever idea.

It fulfills the experience requirement with "hey, I started a business and it generated revenue"

And beyond that it gives you working code examples.

No worries. I'm not actively reaching out for a job. I just wanted to ask for everyone who is in a similar situation. I wish you the best of luck as well. Thanks for the video.

a few options,

http://www.appacademy.io/

http://devbootcamp.com/

https://www.bloc.io/

however, if we want to become outstanding developers, the only option is to work harder, smarter, and enjoy the process

Brilliant solution, nearly a 100% reliable though, what are the chances of an important email containing "unsubscribe" ??

another option could be using https://unroll.me/

Looking for a mentor to kick-start my career in Web development

Requirements:

- Advise on how to give shape to my project (Jobs board for newly grads, students and entry level position seekers)

- 30 min to 1 hr/week Skype or Google hangout contact

- Homework

- patience

I offer:

- 25 - 30 hours a week full commitment

- Willingness to learn and succeed

Hi,

An apprenticeship would be great for you. My company offers them we haven't done remote before but I'm willing to give it a go. Drop me an email josh@seriousfox.co.uk

That's the same model I follow on protocademy.com.

Same question here. (rant) I'm based in Australia and have found very difficult to land a full-time Job for an Entry level web developer. (adding I'm international, on a temporary working visa). freelance sites promote races to find the lower bidder and Job seeking boards are full of recruiters who usually ask for 5+ years of commercial experience in every known to man JavaScript framework + ASP.Net, PHP, SOAP, REST, LAMP environment and Cloud-based VPS what ever that means to the recruiter. (I feel relieved already) If any of you have read this far, my portfolio is on http://smaugh.net/ and I'm available for hire!

I've found that it's all about the connections you make. Are there any nearby hackathons or meetups? They're great opportunities to get connected.

Also, not sure if this is intentional, but your carousal image looks a bit funny on larger screens http://i.imgur.com/nTuf63B.jpg

Hey Zach thank you for the heads-up, the carousel is intentional. However, it is worth checking if you found it estrange.