DEV Community: Onyebueke Emmanuel

Designers can unleash your potentials as a frontend developer

Onyebueke Emmanuel — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:04:54 +0000

Learning to be a front-end developer and web designer was not easy for me, and creating awesome websites was even harder. In fact, I had assumed I was not the creative genius and decided to learn Django to be a back-end developer, but I really wanted to code awesome-looking sites.

A few months ago, I joined Fiverr, a freelancing site, because I needed some cash. So I registered as a Django guy, then a Dutch buyer contacted me and said he had some Figma designs that he would love me to convert to code.

I should have rejected the job because I was not experienced yet but I needed a 5-star rating, and so, with a short deadline (7 days) and 13 pages of design to convert, I accepted the offer.

Once I started, I quickly got lost at the header of the page. The designs were just so weird that CSS Tricks and stack overflow became my friend. And I was so close to canceling the order at some point where it got too complex, but I still don’t know why I didn’t (Spoiler: I eventually lost the Job). I managed to persist till day 7 with only 6 out of 13 pages completed. The client got angry and I had to cancel the job as a result, and for some other reasons.
Interestingly, I was not sad; I was happy because I JUST CONVERTED AN AWESOME UI INTO CODE!!!

Ever since, I have been constantly improving and getting more comfortable with designs.

Now, my advice to beginners wanting to be the next Chris Coyier or Sarah Drasner:

1)Register on Dribbble.com or Behance.com, get awesome designs and try converting to code.
2)Sign up on frontendmentor.io, as there are some awesome challenges there.
3)Check out codepen.io and try to reverse engineer awesome stuff.

Hahahaha. Thank You

cc - proofreader
Samuel 0'Daniels

What Freelance channel do you watch on YouTube?

Onyebueke Emmanuel — Sun, 19 May 2019 18:02:48 +0000

As a freelance web developer, what freelance channel on YouTube or podcast would you advice a beginner to subscribe to and why?

Thanks in advance

Your First Open Source Project

Onyebueke Emmanuel — Wed, 08 May 2019 21:51:00 +0000

Hi all, wanted to ask about the first open source project you contributed too, what was the experience like, were you scared your codes might not be standard, how did you discover the bug?

#Its cool to always receive, also Contribute

Onyebueke Emmanuel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:51:43 +0000

So today i started to think about what makes an excellent developer, why are developers so different, why are some really appreciated and some are not even known, after contemplating, i discovered that the saying givers never lack was never a lie.

I started to think again within myself, i am not good enough to give anything yet but then that saying popped into my head again, after analyzing personally how many articles, courses on YouTube i have watched for free all because of some developers love for the community, i felt guilty, i checked my dev.to profile i had no post, but have read over 100 articles, i answered only few questions on stack overflow but always use it.i really felt bad, i then made a decision today to start giving back, i may not be a good writer, a great coder but i am going to give all i have to the community back.

i write this to you out there, who might be like me who doesn't contribute in anyway because we feel we have nothing to offer or feel inferior, i like you analyze where you would have been if not for others selflessness. Thank you