About Shortdark

Development 1st Jan 2021. Time to read: 1 min

I am a web developer living in Sheffield, UK who has mainly been developing websites in PHP.

My Career Timeline

1999 Taught myself HTML and CSS.
2000 Junior software developer.
2001 Taught myself javascript.
2004 Webmaster, taught myself PHP.
2008 Self-employed. Started creating my own CMS websites with OOP PHP from scratch. Often building everything, sometimes working with a designer.
2014 First Git repo.
2016 First WordPress plugin.
2018 Started using Laravel instead of my own custom frameworks.
2020 Started using javascript frameworks (GatsbyJs/VueJs) more instead of vanilla javascript and jQuery.