Work on the side with ASP.NET MVC?

rashim kavel

6y1.1k.NET

I am an entry level web developer at a company on a team of about 5 developers. I'm fresh out of school. I work with ASP.NET MVC -- C#, Javascript, jQuery, SQL, etc. Pretty much all parts of our project at times.

My question is about making money on the side by making websites for friends/family/whoever.

This is something that I have always wanted to pursue but have never done due to school and well, laziness. But now more than ever it seems like it could be a good thing. I could really use some extra income. BUT I am not really sure what making a site for someone could entail.

A co-worker told me that he created a site for a friend at one point (using asp web forms i believe) and it was more work than it was worth. I don't really mind 'grinding' something like this out. I think I could handle that.

So I guess this may be a more generalized question and should probably be submitted in another subreddit, but I'd really like to continue working with ASP since it is what I've been doing the past half year.

SO, is it possible to do work on the side using ASP.NET MVC(MVC preferably) or web forms? Or would I be better off looking at making WordPress type sites instead?

I feel pretty confident at this point in my career that I could pick either one up. There are so many resources available these days. I could probably do a google search right now and find what I need even, but I thought I would get some insight from this subreddit first.

Thanks.

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rashim kavel6y ago
I would like to work somewhere that practices TDD and agile development. I would also liketweakbox to work somewhere that designs good software. No spaghetti code. It woappvalleyuld also be nice if they were "modern," using later versiotutuappns of MVC (4 or 5) and what not.
Darshan Shah6y ago
Yeah indeed i would go with WordPres, it is like a plug and play. Lots of plugins and widgets available to make your website dynamic with quicker way. And for wordpress i would say you do not need much technical knowledge of PHP. Hope this makes sense!
Vinodh Palaniappan6y ago
My suggestion would be to use Wordpress kind of stuff to develop websites, that too if youre interested in the same to help your family/ friends, etc. In Wordpress also you can use your coding skills to develop some parts, that will give you a different exposure and ideas which can help in your career.

Focus more on the project your working in currently. Dive deep in on ASP.NET MVC to understand the algorithms and improve the same. You need to work on enterprise projects lot more to learn and unlearn .NET more effectively, and websites will not give you that.

In today's world, .NET is not meant for creating simple Websites. you have lot more faster and cheaper way to develop the same. Current Scenario is that, lots of Website development company takes maximum a week to complete the development of a website and charges very less. So, you have to be smarter than them to complete things even faster with quality and cost effective and .NET is not the option for that.