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Hey bro just checking in, Im starting your intermediate series now and looking forward to it.  I reviewed the basics and felt like, this is all great I know my abcs but how to actually do something practical with it is another thing.  Writing code and useful programs is quite hard, so I am going through Grinbergs book, writing web apps with python (flask) where he goes over a lot of topics related to a flask web app and at the end you have a (hopefully) working social blogging/commenting web app.  Some things Im figuring out is writing raw SQL statements is rather tedious and error-prone, so FlaskSQLAlchemy should help with that.  Also I want to optimize my web apps where I can streamline/ automate certain actions so I am not hard coding everything manually, which reduces efficiency and productivity, and requires a client to employ you to make every edit.  Flask-Admin ought to help with managing users and databases.  Im still lost on a CMS.

Next I plan on going through a Django book or two, and familiarizing myself with that more, even though I enjoy flask more.  Since its structure is already set up well, scalability reasons and the django admin panel makes it more attractive to a client because they can edit and make posts by themselves.  

Yet what I am noticing in the freelance market is the vast majority of jobs and projects are calling for PHP, Wordpress, JS, Jquery and I hear from a veteran programmer like Stefan Mischook that there is a lots of opportunity with WordPress development right now, due to its user friendliness, CMS platform makes it very attractive to businesses and people, as well as how productive you can be pumping out solid websites.  As much as I don't want to have to learn all that because I much prefer Python as the best language, it would open more opportunities for me having more skills in the toolbox.  So with all the tutorials and info available I should be able to learn what I need.  Knowing both will be a big plus.

So wondering what you think of  a)  future intermediate/advanced practical python web or software projects    and  b) wordpress / PHP development vs python in marketplace,  and   c) below
Anyways I redesigned my site a bit @ skylinedev.net  because you were right my imagery and colors were all out of wack!  Wondering if you could take a look and give me more honest feedback, what I should change to make it look better.  I went with a teal / goldenrod theme with a few shades of those colors, with neutral black, white, and grey of course.  I like the stucco texture and others in general from transparenttextures.com  but maybe I need to tone them down somewhat.  Thanks brotha catch ya later.