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> Just becuase you get taught something doesn't mean you have a
> responsibility to use it.
Very true, I pretty much disreagrded everything I learnt from Software engineering anyway. Other than the practical stuff, like building SQL queries into databases, which I use most days in my job.
> On a seperate note...I learned HTML, XML, JAVA and Flash at
> University, but I've never bothered even attempting to make a
> website, other than the ones which we had to do for coursework.
>
> Go figure.
I learned UML for three years. I've never even used it for any sort of analysis.
Just becuase you get taught something doesn't mean you have a responsibility to use it.
Go figure.
> I could show you the results I acheive with no 'real' skills but
> frankly I couldn't give a flying Fook what youthink.
Jesus. You've got a hostile crowd in here Marz. Start off with Dreamwevaer by all means, but have the code window open too. In time you'll find yourself writing directly into the code window and ignoring the editor, then after that, you'll look at CSS and the like and Dreamweaver will never be used again. You'll use either notepad or something with syntax highlighting. CSS as a first step in web design / coding, with no previous knowledge would be an incredibly frustrating thing to do.
Damn, everyone starts from somewhere.
I'm just assuming that "woah look at what I made with my illegal copy of Dreamweaver!" doesn't really qualify as having any 'real' skills.
> okay then. There's people in the web design forum who are making a
> pretty-penny from freelance work. I don't know about the industry in
> general though, I'm no expert, but the ability to code definitely
> offers more flexibility/possibilities which results in better
> websites and customer satisfaction, which should eventually result in
> more business and money.
In the long run, yeah. But don't go too anal with web standards, or you'll be staying up every night seeing what W3C have shoved in their latest standards paper. If you can, milk your "skills" as much as you can.
> learn to code HTML properly u noo b
Couldn't have put it any better myself.