Hello from cali, questions about web design

Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums, I've been doing web design for about 7 years as a career and hobby. I want to ask all of you though for your help, I'm doing a research survey on web design, and I have about six questions for you all, if you dont mind answering. You dont have to go into great detail, general answers are ok. Thanks in advance.


1.If you had to relearn your web design skills all over again, in what way would you want to learn them?

2.If you had to relearn your web design skills all over again, how long would you want it to take?

3.If you had to relearn your web design skills all over again, where would you go to start learning?

4.If you had to relearn your web design skills all over again,
would you take a class or read a book?

5.If you had to relearn your web design skills all over again,
what programming languages would you want to learn first? What languages would you want to learn after that?

6.If you had to relearn your web design skills all over again, what graphics software would you want to learn first? What

techniques would you want to learn first?

Thanks again.

--Jonnydangerous

Id just come to webforumz.com and learn it all.

Hi and welcome!

I don't think your questions are quite relevant...

If by some freaky situation, I lost all my knowledge of web design then I would want to re-learn as quick as possible and take the faster route through all your questions - class, swatting, etc.

I think better questions are "how did you learn, what did you do".

I got into web design by playing with HTML in school and it went from there to my personal life and grew. I learn everything I can by playing. It's as simple as that. Books are good for reference and examples as well as sporting differences between similiar activities, but other than that I try to do as much as possible myself - That's the best way to learn as you understand HOW things work not just that they do.

I've been learning since I was 12. I'm now 19 and I'm still learning. Granted, I'm not learning HTML, or much in Flash, but I'm still learning in Photoshop, which I've been using for about 4 years. I'm still learning almost every programming language I know as I don't think you can ever know a language 100%, just because of all the different ways there are to do something.

As for what languages I would learn first... Those that appeal most. Simple as that. Either they appeal more because you know that someone could use that skill and you could make money, or you want to learn because you can make use of it yourself, etc. At the moment I think most people would want to learn (for web) PHP, ASP and ASP.NET because that is where the money is to be made, on the whole.

I think you would definetly have more luck asking us (as most of us already know something about web design) how we learnt, etc, as opposed to what we would do, when we have already done that and the situation is now different.

Yeah, have to agree the questions probably won't get you anywhere with us. Not to mention we'd rather talk about something like not answering them than spending the time to try to.

So... ASP.NET rocks, but it's not the simplest thing. You'd need CSS, HTML, SQL, and basic javascript too. I learned everything from books and trial and error, wouldn't change that. I've always hand coded and used Homesite to do it with, though I've tried all the major programs from time to time. Photoshop will do 99% of all you'll ever need in graphics. Illustrator covers the other 1%.

If I was going to bother taking a class I'd take one in art and not in programming.

Final piece of advice. There's a million people with some web programming skills. Almost none of them spend the time to study basic graphic design theory (traditional print design, etc - NOT web design). The ones that do almost always stand out.