I want to develop software skills that are desirable to employers but also learn all I can about designing web sites. I want to design for myself and for others. I have used Dreamweaver and Front Page a little bit both but want to know where to concentrate my learning and learn one program in depth, but want it to be the one that will get me the furthest.
What is the best software to learn to market yourself as a web designer?
July 25th, 2010 by admin Leave a reply »I want to develop software skills that are desirable to employers but also learn all I can about designing web sites. I want to design for myself and for others. I have used Dreamweaver and Front Page a little bit both but want to know where to concentrate my learning and learn one program in depth, but want it to be the one that will get me the furthest.
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Avoid Front Plague. Use Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop. Consider looking into Flash and AJAX.
try idnesign,Dreamweaver8,HTML. OR GO A COLLEGE……..
Go to college. If you want to be self-taught, go to and spend as much time as you can reading and asking questions there.
Also you can try to enter the contests, they will give you experience and you could even get some money.
I’m self-taught myself and I’m working as full time freelance designer, I learned a lot in those forums.
If you want to master specific software, I would say Adobe Photoshop and dreamweaver.
Learn HTML. Learn to code HTML in notepad. Then you can use FP, DW, etc etc if you want. All programs like that are is ways for inexpereienced people to make a website, or expereinced ones to make it quicker. You need to know the syntax. what’s important is things like
CSS (language for defining styles)
(x)HTML (Language for creating viewable pages)
XML (Language for creating extensible files that can be viewed in pages, that really jsut store information, not the actual “page))
Java and Javascript (Client side Scripting languages)
Active Server Pages (Server side Scripting language)
PHP (Server Side scripting language)
SQL. Especially if you can query an Oracle db, MS DB, MySQL Db, then you pretty much got it, I would think, although there are a lot of protocals for workign with databases, that at least gets you started.
A Good place to cehck out the languages and thier standards is
When we hire people, we look for folks with the following background:
1. Java
2. HTML
3. Deamweaver
4. FrontPage
If we want to hire a peson to take care of the graphics side, we look for:
1. Flash
2. PhotoShop
3. Acrobat