the problem with trying to find platforms that give more money to contributors is that the big platforms which take more money have more money for marketing. Historically big sites with low payouts have out preformed smaller sites with higher payouts. you need to find a way to both give out more money to contributors but also out advertise the big names to win in this space.
I have a BFA in Graphic Design. My program was more print focused but I always made websites where ever I could. I knew HTML and CSS and basic js and a tiny bit of php.
I was beyond lucky to get a design job for a small startup on craigslist doing just design. From there I just wanted to help the startups I was working for move faster. So I learned to do better with HTML, CSS. And then JS and PHP just to help feature development go faster.
Eventually I found the programming interviews much easier then the design interviews. Though to be fair I don't think I was that amazing of a designer.
I got a few jobs doing all front end development and now I do all node / js/ react code.
While I lack any formal programming training what I do have is a really amazing relationship with the UX designers I have worked with. I have a feel for what they want and I care about what they are trying to accomplish. I am also better able to find good middle ground to compromise feature development on.
I think my focus on UX as a developer really helps me put out the best possible features.
While there seems to be many people in this thread with an art background I have found very few in the places I have worked with similar backgrounds.
If you run the JS in the console you see a "powered by optimum" graphic. which I guess would appear on every website that has jquery loaded from google. Which is a ton of sites.
As far as I can tell this does not work cross protocol from http to https. One of the thing I use postMessage for the most is messaging between those two protocols.
Most SEO people will end up telling you that sub domains endup splitting your page rank up since they are considered different domains. We ended up keeping our different languages under different sub folders.
so:
I don't think I will ever be convince that someone has a better syntax for HTML. Markdown is not bad for writing a quick document. But authoring a whole webpage nothing beats pure html. I'm still on the fence for CoffeeScript as well.
