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Web Authoring

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  • 05-01-2012 8:15pm
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    woodturner
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. I have very basic knowledge of computers and was thinking of doing a web authoring course. I have been laid off from work since August and had thought about web design and that for a while. Is it difficult?


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    [Deleted User]
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    I don't know what exact technology you will cover, because there are so many.

    However one thing I would say is, learn HTML5 and CSS. They are the core languages and you wont do much without knowing them.

    I assume you'll do flash, but maybe not, since HTML5 can do a lot of what flash does.


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    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    What level are you looking at getting into? Building a website is pretty straight forward, especially with WYSIWYG programs like Dreamweaver. Once you've an interest in it you can learn a lot from research on the net. W3schools and Dummy's guide to Web Development will see you go quite far.
    If on the other hand you're looking to get a job in some big web dev type company, you'll need to get all the industry standards and spec function type lark down, which will require some formal training I reckon.

    The Digital Skills Academy run this webElevate course for unemployed people and it seems to be quite a good standard.


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    jujumushu
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    I'm currently studying Creative Multimedia in DKIT and we had a basic web authoring module in first year covering HTML and CSS and although some people in the class found it hard to get their heads around but it's pretty basic. I would reckon it is much easier to learn in a formal environment where you would have practical assignments which definitely helped me and others in my class to remember key aspects of the code so I wouldn't really recommend doing it on your own if you don't have any assignments to help practice.

    Using dreamweaver is fairly handy too :)


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    tricky D
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    Dreamweaver isn't a good way to start learning web authoring as it's rendering engine is flawed and it's much better to learn the under the bonnet stuff first. It is good for production only once you know (x)html(5) and css.

    Start at http://w3schools.com, http://reference.sitepoint.com/html, http://htmldog.com, http://www.tizag.com are all good and free. You can also pick up a few lynda.com video tutorials which are great value.


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    woodturner
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    Cheers guys and gals


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