[dandiud]

Hi!

I am a history major and for a couple of years now I 've been thinking about a career in web development, (as a second career) so I wanted to get some advice on what steps I should take to become an acredited web developer. A lot of people suggest going back to college and getting an engineering degree in computer science, but I already tried that before I studied history, and I don't have either the time (I'm 33) nor the checking account to go back to school.

I would really appreciate any thoughts on this, considering I'm probably at the crossroads of my professional life.

[wirehopper]

Get a book - Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML - O'Reilly Media

And try it out.

If you find it fun, and you want to continue, get apache friends - very easy apache, mysql, php and perl installation without hassles and another book: Head First Labs from O'Reilly Media, Inc. :: Head First PHP & MySQL

Finally, when you're ready, get some shared hosting on a publicly accessible server and build a site. Show what you've learned.

Good luck!