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Ok I want to get into web designing properly, what stuff should I learn, I know basic HTML and a bit of CSS but what else should I know?

Ok I want to get into web designing properly, what stuff should I learn, I know basic HTML and a bit of CSS but what else should I know?

Tyla's going to have a field day on this one.

Aesthetics and Design
CSS
xHTML (1.0 Transistional or Strict)

That's it really, CSS is the most viable source for styling your site.

Site functionality
PHP + MySQL (You'll need to learn this, it's an amazing resource)
Possibly JavaScript, but I try to refrain from using it

I'd go for ASP and Coldfusion rather than PHP, if I were you.

Learn xhtml and css properly. Validate all the pages you create:

[URL]http://validator.w3.org/[/URL]

That validation things good, thanks
Looks like I have some reading to do then

VenomByte wrote:
> I'd go for ASP and Coldfusion rather than PHP, if I were you.

Why?

because he knows how to code asp?
Personnaly I'm sticking with php.

Yeah same here.

When I did 6-7 weeks of work experience earlier this year with a company who developed bespoke software modules for a CRM package, I had to use ASP.net and C# for the piece of work that they gave me to develop.

Never again will I touch ASP/ASP.net/C#, never again.

I'm a proffessionnal webdesigner and I earn about £75,000 a year. There isn't that much to learn really, just learn the basics of HTML and get your hands on a copy or Frontpage and withing a few years you'll be earning alot more than most people.

I've just finished a massive project with Sony UK on the new PSP mini-site which earned me nearly £25,000. Expect to see it live within a couple of weeks.

h11pipi wrote:
> I'm a proffessionnal webdesigner and I earn about £75,000 a
> year.


I wish!;) Never want to earn more than 50k as the tax is 50% after that!:( Anyway. My basic is £25k + Freelancing which makes me anywhere between £2000/year to £10,000/year on top

> I've just finished a massive project with Sony UK on the new PSP
> mini-site which earned me nearly £25,000. Expect to see it live
> within a couple of weeks.

I dream of bluechips like that. Current project: A site for a Chemical form that makes smells!????


VenomByte wrote:
> I'd go for ASP and Coldfusion rather than PHP, if I were you.

CFML? Looked at it, nice idea using a syntax similar to HTML, but not widley supported or used due to the JREE2 licence needed to run it on the server!

ASP sucks, spent the last 12 weeks working in it, it's a mess and the logic behind it was designed by a dead monkey.

PHP Rocks!