Pickup and read cover to cover 'getting started with' books on HTML, CSS and the Wordpress cms. This should allow you to customize simple wordpress sites.
Next, buy a good looking template from themeforest.net and customize it as a portfolio piece. Take screenshots of the site.
Go door-to-door or call your local small businesses, i.e. Mechanics, hairdressers, carpenters, whatever and show the screenshots. Offer them to make them a site with domain and cms for 1000 USD a year, paid upfront or at least 6 months upfront.
Make them a simple, business-card like site based on another wordpress template from themeforest. This is more than enough for the majority of small businesses. If they want customizations beyond text / images (we also want an order tracking system!) tell them no.
Later, you can start looking at Javascript, PHP and SQL, in order to be able to add more functionality to the wordpress sites.
Next, buy a good looking template from themeforest.net and customize it as a portfolio piece. Take screenshots of the site.
Go door-to-door or call your local small businesses, i.e. Mechanics, hairdressers, carpenters, whatever and show the screenshots. Offer them to make them a site with domain and cms for 1000 USD a year, paid upfront or at least 6 months upfront.
Make them a simple, business-card like site based on another wordpress template from themeforest. This is more than enough for the majority of small businesses. If they want customizations beyond text / images (we also want an order tracking system!) tell them no.
Later, you can start looking at Javascript, PHP and SQL, in order to be able to add more functionality to the wordpress sites.