Hi guys, it's nice to finally join this wonderful forum. I'm a cs graduate from johns hopkins and am thinking of making a shift in career into Web Designing. I have some experience back in college in regards to coding, so i think the aspect of web designing wouldn't be too alien to me. html and css are pretty much the most important things i need to know and master first right? html is a given, but what are some other things that are a must know? A friend of mine mentioned a few things to me such as css , adobe flex, dotNet, Csharp, expression blend, flash/silverlight.... From your experience... what would be your personal approach to learning web desgining? html first of course, then css ? and what next? Reason i'm asking this is that i know absolutely nothing about any of these products/technology other than html, and i would appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction and maybe share some of their experience. In addition, what are some software you guys would recommend for a web designer? what's a very good html editor, what are the nice tools that i need to acquire. Finally, does anyone know of any good sites for learning the stuff i need for becoming a good web designer? sites that have tutorials and guides on html, css, or anything that might be helpful for a guy who is just getting his feet wet? thanks in advance.
Depends on what subject you would like to focus. If you say you're good at html/css, php, mysql, I probably won't doubt a lot. However, once I heard that somebody was a master of html/css, php, asp.net, perl, ruby, flash/as, xml, blah blah blah... almost everything I ever heard in web development, the word liar came up to my mind. You can't be a master of all, in fact I barely think anyone could, for there're too much in web design. graphics/ui, coding, programming, database... each has many branches. Choose your way to go, if you're diligent enough, you will be an expert in that certain field. At the very beginning, I suggest you reading this curriculum, for some basic information about web design: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur/ Code (markup): Hope this is helpful for you to make a decision.