Have you tried getting into MVC or game dev? jQuery and manipulating the DOM is one thing, but doing organized programming in the browser is totally different.

You need to have an objective in mind! try dreaming up an interface and designing then coding it and getting all the interactions and animations just right. I wouldn't be concerned about making the code perfect, that just comes later with a bit more experience and knowledge. Good luck!

I would also suggest taking a basic course at one of these learn to code websites so you can pick up best practices and the basics.

If your serious about it give this a read: http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/

After I read this book reading other peoples code/architecture became a lot easier to understand.

Well. it seems you got the basics. How is your JavaScript OOP skills right now? I would advice you to learn a JS web framework such as AngularJS if you are planning to do any serious work. What about NodeJS (JS on the server)? That will improve your skills to the moon. Good luck.

Thank you everyone for all the responses! I really appreciate it. I will for sure keep learning and check out the resources you've linked. I'll hopefully have a progress update in the next few weeks (fingers crossed!)

Thanks again

I think you have to develop some intrinsic motivation that drives you to work on some kind of project. I've offered my time to a number of friends and coworkers who wanted to improve their JS skills but the ones who really took to it were the ones who came to me and said “Hey, I have this thing I really want to build & I just need some advice on how to do this one thing”. The one thing led to learning like 20 things, & then they wanted to figure out how to do a few more things, and now they know enough that they have all seem to have the confidence to tackle just about anything.

Check out this site: http://www.unheap.com/ Find some simple and/or cool effects you like, and try to replicate them. Most of these plugins have repos, so if you get stuck you can take a look at the code. Looking at how other people write code helps you to define your own style of thinking. Sure, you can do a ton of tutorials, but until you develop your own way of thinking in code, you'll always get lost outside of these tutorials. I think that is key.

I'm a developer, I would suggest this and skip lots of old technologies:

for CSS http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/revolutions2013/ for DOM http://www.jackcallister.com/2015/01/05/the-react-quick-start-guide.html