Schooling for web design.

[CYPHER]

Hey everyone!

I am sure there are more then just a few of you out there going into or are working in the field of web design. I was thinking of going back to school to persue that field. I just wanted to hear some suggestions on where I should look into this. I have been looking into the community colledge, but want to search out all options available to me. Any insight or info would be great!!

Thanks,

[Vinx]

I'm not positive bout colleges but when you say "web design" do you mean the graphics part, the coding (php, databases, etc.), or both?

[CYPHER]

I would love to be able to do both. I'd like to be hired to creat a web page from scratch. So whatever it takes to do that is what I am wanting to learn.

[WearyGamer]

yea. i know a little i learned on my own. i went to a competition for it

[CYPHER]

Nice!

Don't let that talent slip away from you. Are you going to make a career out of it weary?

[WearyGamer]

idk maybe. send me another fr on xbl. i will talk tou about it.i will do some researchand help you. if u want. lemme know

[Doll PMS]

You don't need to go to college for that. Buy a book and/or read up online.

[ninja]

i agree just look it up online, i know some stuff of web design from just reading it online but i didn't like it so....yea just read it online bud :D

[Gaviteros]

Yet you can only learn so much online, and what you do learn you learn more by reading people's code and stealing the parts you like for it.

I've taken classes at my school for webdesign and coding and are we far behind the times or what! I was learning Html 4.01 when we should have been learning XHTML (very similar, just different syntax for some stuff.) We were stuck living with tables and not trying anything out of that.

A good college on the otherhand would probably be up to the Standards (name for validated code) and be willing to teach you all that.

One of my problems was that I only recently learned about the Standards and have been trying to jumpstart all my old ideas to match wc3's validator.

If you are intending to take a shot at web design I urge you to download the firefox webdesigner toolbar. If only for the quick link to the validator.

Really though, college might not be a bad idea- but you could just as easially get thrown into a place that only teaches you the older version of HTML leaving you behind. Or you could get a proffesor who knows what he/she is doing and be "hip with the times" and you might actually learn something useful.

There is only so much you can learn from books and the internet. All I know I got from those two sources, (and a bad teacher) but I wish I had gone through the steps to learn certain things in order. For example I know basically nothing about how PHP is phrased but I've figured out how to implement CuteNewsPHP into my website. I don't know how to tweak the system all I know is how to use it straight forwardly.

If you intend to get into webdesign I greatly recommend doing some basic tables stuff then going to css. http://www.csszengarden.com Look at these websites. The HTML never changes, the only thing that changes is the CSS. Click on the links to the side and you will load a different stylesheet.

Good luck on you're search.

[CYPHER]

Right on thanks!