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Nov 21st, 2007, 13:05
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Greetings from a newbie
Hi y'all!
My name is Misty and I just joined the forum. I am looking forward to learning much about web design/development. I am currently a COBOL mainframe programmer for a large insurance company. A year and a half ago I lost my job of 18 years at a major telecommunications company due to the outsourcing of the programming work to India. Since losing my job, I have become more and more discontent with mainframe programming (a mid-life crisis, I guess). I have always loved to express myself artistically. I feel like web design would be a good outlet for that creativity while still making use of my programming experience. I am currently taking an Intermediate Web Development class at a local college and am learning Microsoft Expression Web (the school was too cheap to purchase Dreamweaver). I am hoping though, that after learning Expression Web, that it will be an easy transition to Dreamweaver since that seems to be the tool most companies (including the one I work for now) uses. I look foward to getting to know everyone. Happy Thanksgiving!!!! 
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Nov 21st, 2007, 13:12
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome to the zoo!
 Sorry to head about the job loss but ... I guess you are not the only one nor the last that will loose their job to cheap India. Anywho ... about web design... I'll tell you right now ... Expression Web is probably not the best way to go about learning how to create website. Learn to code by hand using Notepad. Sounds like a nightmare I know but, you'll thank me later when you can solve your problems quicker  There are few good stickies in the Beginners Resources section you should have a look at First one - Resources for learning HTML and CSS Then ... you can tackle CSS layouts - Resources for learning how to use CSS for layout Check out the newsletter in December. I have a tutorial coming out on how to create a website from a to z hth
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Nov 21st, 2007, 13:37
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Thanks for the tips. I will check those resources out very soon.
The very first web development class I took (Intro to Web Development) taught us how to code HTML by hand as you have described. My instructor gave the same reasons you did for learning how to do it by hand first. Guess he knew what he was talking about after all! Thanks and have a great day!
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Nov 21st, 2007, 13:40
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Well... that's a relief! Seems like you might have an instructor that actually *knows* HTML
Good luck and if you're stuck, ASK on the forumz! 
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Nov 21st, 2007, 13:57
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome to the forumz Misty!!
Being a programmer, I bet you've heard of Formal Specification and Object Z.
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Nov 21st, 2007, 14:11
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
I've never heard of Object Z, but I just Google'd it and I see it is an object-oriented language. I am a COBOL programmer (procedural language). I have taken a beginning VB.net course, but that is the only exposure to object oriented programming that I have had. Are you a 'Z' programmer?
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Nov 21st, 2007, 20:10
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
I have to learn it at uni because we had a chap from IBM come in to give a talk on software development and he said that out of a team of 20, about 5 people could read Object Z and only 1 or 2 could write it.
I've heard of COBOL but never used it. I have used Pascal before a couple years back as well as Visual Basic and am still learning Java
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Nov 21st, 2007, 21:44
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome mate!
Last Blog Entry: 3D Chess in your browser! (Mar 14th, 2008)
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Nov 21st, 2007, 23:02
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome to Webforumz!
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Nov 24th, 2007, 01:17
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome to WebForumz! Happy Programming...
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Nov 24th, 2007, 19:11
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome to the Forumz!
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Dec 2nd, 2007, 04:44
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Re: Greetings from a newbie
Welcome to Web Forumz! Glad you joined us....
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