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Web design skills?please help?

Which computer skills you should know to be a successful web designer?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Web designers are graphic artists who often know how to code somewhat. Web developers are the coders who make much of the information gathering and manipulation happen.

    To be a web designer you need a creative eye and the computer skills to edit graphics in Photoshop, GIMP and other fairly hefty photo editors, and you'll often need to know how to animate your images in Flash, silverlight, etc., and if you work for a smaller company you would at least need to know x(HTML), javascript, and DOM manipulation.

    As a web developer you would need to know x(HTML), javascript, PHP, DOM manipulation, and most likely database structures. Right now you would need to know programming methodology, but you wouldn't need to know much about programming paradigms.

    .. But, technology is always changing and as technologies that combine programming languages and scripting languages increase, ( like Rhino achieves), and as websites become more powerful you may need a computer science degree to deal with the architectural and engineering challenges involved.

    Look into a Web development baccalaureate now, but study computer science in your electives.

    You can use this link to look up the programs universities offer:

    http://www.bachelordegrees.net/directory.asp

  • 1 decade ago

    There is web design and then there is web implementation. To know how to implement the design into an interactive then there is definitely some coding and programming you need. And with every skill about 100 hours is needed to perfect it.

    Source(s): Web designer http://www.newleafconcepts.com/
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    4 years ago

    it is going to count number on who does it and how complicated that's. For $a million, you at the instant are not likely to get a lot. and additionally, you do not many times could pay a internet fashion designer for each web site. you may pay the fashion designer for the 1st web site plus possibly a pair extra. After that, fairly much everyone can create further pages based on the 1st ones. once you're turning out to be the artwork for $a million in line with web site, that's a intense college baby whipping some thing out and hoping for some extra money. You get what you pay for.

  • 1 decade ago

    To succeed as a web designer you need to know XHTML, Css, JavaScript, AJAX and PHP.you also need to be creative to be a successful web designer. There are many site which provide you free tutorials for these subject, some of the websites are:

    http://www.w3schools.com/

    http://www.tizag.com/

    http://www.onlinetutorials4free.com/

    Apart from learning these languages can also learn how to manage and maintain CMS (Content Management System) like Drupal, word-press and joomla to name a few. Learning how to maintain these CMS will help meet the client requirements. Some of your clients might want you to make a website based on the CMS platform.

    Now a days every one who owns a website wants their website to be on the top of search , so it would be added advantage if a web designer knows SEO. If not everything about SEO at least basics of seo.

    I don't meant to scare by asking you to learn every thing under the sun but web designer life is fun and full of creativity.

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  • 1 decade ago

    The most important one by far is html that is all the text, colors forms and stuff like that. I recommend also learning php and mysql. They are more for email, databases, and you can put html in php which comes in handy! I would know look at my web design web site at http://www.asearcha.com/

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You need to have a logical way of thinking, learn quickly and be adaptable. You have to pay alot of attention to detail if you dont want it to be all go wrong. You dont really need computer skills as such, just to know how to use a keyboard.

    Look at these online tutorials and see if its something you'd like to do

    www.w3schools.com

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