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Retraining as a web designer
jollyme
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in Techie Stuff
Hi, I'm not sure where would be best to ask this so please feel free to move my post if there is a better place.
Anway, I am looking at retraining as a web developer. I was wondering what the best way to get training would be? Dreamweaver, flash and photoshop all seem to be prevelent as well as html. Can I learn this stuff at home from books and online training ? or are there reputable training courses to be had - I would be paying for all this myself and so £400 a day is not really an option for me! Anyhelp or advise would be great ...Thanks so much
Anway, I am looking at retraining as a web developer. I was wondering what the best way to get training would be? Dreamweaver, flash and photoshop all seem to be prevelent as well as html. Can I learn this stuff at home from books and online training ? or are there reputable training courses to be had - I would be paying for all this myself and so £400 a day is not really an option for me! Anyhelp or advise would be great ...Thanks so much
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You might be approaching this from the wrong angle, IMHO...
The first thing I'd be looking at is where I would be able to find a job! With a web company of some sort? Freelance? Have you got excellent design skills, to which you can add-on the web development skill?
There are a lot of people out there doing this sort of thing!0 -
Hmmm, it's possibly the technical angle that interests me more than the artistic design side, John. I spent many years in IT configuring large financial software packages became disillusioned and am now looking for a change of direction.0
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Go SoftEng, plenty of opportunity and still, unusually for IT at the moment, good money
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Where I live a 10 week Web design or Photoshop course is £15 for evening classes. They usually run for 3 terms. I think these are a good start as you get to use the software for free so you find out if you like it before investing lots of money into books and software.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]
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I think you should firstly look for jobs that you are interested in, then see what skills they want from you. Minimum you will need is HTML/XHTML, CSS and probably PHP or Javascript.
I just got my first job as a Junior Web Developer and I needed XHTML, CSS, PHP and ASP (my least favourite language in the world) was desirable. I also needed skills in Fireworks and Illustrator but they were not bothered that I didn't have them as I could use Flash and Photoshop0
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