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web design equiptment

  • 15-11-2008 7:43pm
    #1
    duncanb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭


    I am just starting a web design course...and do not know much on the topic to be honest.

    Upon completion of the degree course, i hope to set up a small business designing high quality web sites.

    What equiptment and software does a web designer need to make good quality websites commercially....and how much would it cost to set myself up with this equiptment??

    thanks in advance.

    duncan


Comments

  • #2
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, A decent text editor and you're good to go really.


  • #3
    duncanb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭duncanb


    Mirror wrote: »
    Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, A decent text editor and you're good to go really.
    How much would all that cost?

    What sort of computer is best?

    thnx


  • #4
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    i'm not sure, search them on the adobe website or amazon. as for the pc, anything relatively up to date should be fine. a bit more ram if you plan to run more than one of these at a time. and a decent monitor so you can see what you're creating the way everyone else will see it.


  • #5
    stevire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭stevire


    You could go open source:

    Instead of photoshop, use Gimp

    Instead of flash, use OpenLaszlo

    A decent text editor use Notepad++

    A good example of a website using OpenLaszlo: http://worrydream.com/


  • #6
    p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    duncanb wrote: »
    I am just starting a web design course...and do not know much on the topic to be honest.

    Upon completion of the degree course, i hope to set up a small business designing high quality web sites.

    What equiptment and software does a web designer need to make good quality websites commercially....and how much would it cost to set myself up with this equiptment??
    Sounds like you're getting a bit ahead of yourself here. Expecting to complete the course and to be able to design high quality sites is a bit unrealistic. Better to work your ass off at the course learn all you can about design, typography, interaction, user psychology, colour theory, layout and then work in a few web design studios to hone your skills. If the course is short then you'll only learn a tiny fraction of that stuff. A degree in design or multimedia would be something you might want to look into.

    Learning to design high quality websites will take a few years, but if you put the work in, it's well worth it.


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