I seemed to get ahead of myself in the last blog post. I forgot to add thoughts about our awesome guest speaker! But this week I will, along with some Javascript-y flashbacks being introduced to PHP.
Last post I was so overwhelmed and defeated with page builders that I failed to mention Tirzah Johnson coming to class and giving us insight into E-commerce. Tirzah showed us and demonstrated Woo Commerce and Shopify.
In this day in age in technology, any of us can take the immediate opportunity to become a middle man and make money rather quickly with Shopify! It was amazing to see. You could simply pick the products that a lot of other sites already use as suppliers and boom! I never knew that is how a huge number of websites operate.
Of course, you can always sell your own work or products, but to know that within a few clicks, you pretty much have your own e-store, was almost startling. It would still take quite some time to keep it updated and manage but there are so many tools at our disposal for it all. Its rather incredible.
Shopify definitely seemed more user friendly and easier to start and just take off verses Woo Commerce, but to see the both of them played out and set up was very interesting. I now know the little secrets behind E-commerce. Much like any business, buyer behavior really doesn’t change much from the typical behavior I learned at Sac State. The trickery is still very much enabled.
Now, onto PHP. PHP works as a function-type language in which I see some similarities to Javascript and J-Query. Obvious differences aside, I was still having flashbacks. The introduction of these languages are a tad tedious, but necessary to get the basics of syntax.
I guess it could be considered potential “torture”, however I get it. Each language has its role. Javascript and J-Query allowed for some awesome effects on pages and you felt like a genius when you get it all right. PHP has its place just like the others, but instead of cool effects, I think its much more a language of convenience. PHP allows us to have the language automate or organize information that would be a pain otherwise. Its potential has a lot of upsides. The “torture” is necessary, and to understand it to further understand how WordPress functions, will be good to know.