MrWumpus - 6:49 pm on Mar 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

You're on the right track. I was you about eight years ago. I took HTML classes and started tinkering with web sites, but slacked on it. Here's what I ended up doing:

- Played video games. Net profit: $0
- Spent money on girlfriend. Net profit: Wife
- Got married. Net profit: Two children.
- Total net profit: A nice family, no web sites, no free time to develop web sites. Oh yeah, no money either.

In other words, throw out your video games and other distractions, get a part-time job at a coffee shop, and lock yourself in your room with your free coffee and develop until you fall asleep at the keyboard and dream in XHTML.

With enough hard work and a dash of luck, one morning you may awake to discover you are earning money in your sleep, or while holding your slobbery baby, or perhaps even while playing video games.

At least that's what they say on Webmasterworld. I can't speak from experience, except to say that babies do slobber.