Becoming a Web designer?
@Abhinavmishra19 (224)
India
September 20, 2008 2:06pm CST
I feel this field is one of the most booming ones in today's time.
My plan is as follows:
Learning fireworks
Dreamweaver
Flash
AJAX
PHP
I already know HTML and CSS so thats not a problem.
Using all the ADOBE softwres, with all paid ebooks and tutorials :D
Please suggest changes, or
Share with us how you became a web designer or are trying to become one.
3 responses
@jacobkktan (202)
• Malaysia
20 Sep 08
If you already know HTML and CSS, i don't see any reason why you need to learn how to use Dreamweaver or any software.
I am a web developer, and i use "Programmers Notepad". It basically is a very simple NOTEPAD!
The only drawback is that you don't get live rendering of what you code, but with practice, you'll find that the codes produce will be way cleaner compared to using dreamweaver or front page or ...... any other WYSIWYG software out there.
@Abhinavmishra19 (224)
• India
20 Sep 08
Yeah man you are true.
I am in my initial stage.
Besides I don't want to bang my head with html.
It is good for correction nd checking though.
I will take up HTML primarily soon though.
As for now, doing things I can do without is not in my list :P
@jacobkktan (202)
• Malaysia
20 Sep 08
One tip i forgot to tell you.
Make sure your codes are W3 Web compliant. To start with, you can always go to
http://www.w3schools.com
They have tonnes of tutorials and examples, and all compliant!
@scaplusrevenge (56)
• United States
20 Sep 08
You don't have to learn all that programming "language". In a way, I think your list is backwards.
1. Since you know HTML, PHP is very similar to it.
2. Split the list you go into 2 lists. Why?
Flash and Dreamweaver is very closely related.
HTML and CSS is similar to PHP and AJAX
Only difference is that its function and view.
@slanted (89)
•
20 Sep 08
That's a pretty decent list:) If you're learning PHP you'll probably want to learn a bit about databases too - MySQL is probably the most commonly used with PHP. Solid Javascript skills would also be very useful. You might also look into using a JS library such as jQuery. Since it sounds like you're already happy coding HTML and CSS I probably wouldn't bother spending too much time with dreamweaver (I've never worked anywhere where knowing a particular tool like dreamweaver would be a requirement for hiring someone). I guess it depends whether you want to be more a designer or developer, but if you're looking at doing heavy duty PHP development there are tools like eclipse that will be probably be more useful than dreamweaver will be.
Good luck:)
