peondossLOVING sippi

rtfverterra — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:15:15 +0000

peondossLOVING sippi wrote:

photoshop, dreamweaver, webexpressions, quarkxpress, flash, and son...

I wish I will learn Photoshop and flash, these will be great advancements of myself.

Hi peondoss, Welcome to TWF!

decibel.places — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:10:10 +0000

Hi peondoss,

Welcome to TWF!

The "fun" factor in web development is that you are certain to tackle new problems and learn something new on every project - even after you have been doing it for years

Welcome to the "club"

Your technical skills sound

jj1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:05:50 +0000

Your technical skills sound impressive!!!! As a web designer, however, you also need to know about design. I learnt largely by looking at other designs on the internet and seeing what works and what doesn't. I then tried doing similar - but not identical websites - to the ones I liked and gradually started learning for myself what did and didn't work. I bookmarked interesting website designs under headings such as wide screen designs, in the box designs, interesting masthead designs, interesting navigation designs etc.

If you are interested, you might check out 4 Top Tips for Website Design to see illustrations as to the importance of good and effective visuals, borders shading, slogans and subheadings.

"so i learnt certain

Ryan6 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:08:29 +0000

"so i learnt certain languages css, javascript, and html, some softwares like: photoshop, dreamweaver, webexpressions, quarkxpress, flash"

That's a very good start. Rather you than me! Best of luck anyway.

That sounds like a good list

Megan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:14:23 +0000

That sounds like a good list of technologies to know for a web designer. One small addition would be a vector design program like Illustrator. Really, with software, it's more about the general techniques than the particularities of one program.

Knowing a little bit of php would be helpful, and how to set up databases so you can run scripts such as Wordpress. Speaking of Wordpress, knowing how to design themes for common platforms like Wordpress and Drupal would be helpful

There are a lot of other things you'll need to learn to become a good designer: layout design, typography, colour theory, usability, graphic design etc. These are the tough parts!