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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Darkshadow - I can relate so well to what you are saying. May be it's the same everywhere.... anyhow, I am in Australia, and I was looking for a course on how to build a website. The only accredited courses that contained what I wanted were in multimedia courses - which I definitely knew I didn't want to do (I didn't want to do the movies, audio and animation stuff). It was possible to do an expensive short course (around 20 hours total) on web design, but I knew these wouldn't suit either as I already had some knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator from another course that I had done in desktop publishing. Then a local college advertised a web design course put together from individual subjects from a variety of multimedia courses. This suited me just fine as all I really wanted to learn at that stage was some HTML and Dreamweaver. Which I did. However, lots of poeple who started the course dropped out, because they knew nothing about Photoshop or Illustrator, both of which were used. It made me realise that all this stuff is cumulative - you need to start off knowing the basics first then progress into the areas which excite you. I already know there is no way in the world I will ever be a programmer, so I'm not going that direction. In the future, I may consider a course in Flash and take it from there. But that quote - specialisation is for insects - is good up to a point. I think it is almost impossible to be both a programmer AND a designer (graphics) - so specialisation one way or the other is good. If you enjoy Photoshop, then stick to the design side - this can still incorporate Flash or any other program where the coding side is 'done for you' in the same sort of way Dreamweaver can do the HTML for you. If you feel you haven't got the design side in you, go for the programming side, but small steps - don't try and learn everything at once. What you need to work out (and here I cannot advise you) is what are the basics, and where should I go to build on these? Loading...
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