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Beginners web design course

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  • 29-05-2012 9:08pm
    #1
    RainWing
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    I'm hoping to take a beginners course in Dreamweaver. Can anyone recommend a course in Cork or in Dublin? For Dublin, I would be interested in something like an intensive week (or couple of weeks) long course, as I won't be able to afford to stay up there for much longer than that :o

    For Cork, the shorter the better too. My main thing is a good course over cost or anything else. I've tried a cheap course before and it was so slow that it was useless.

    Thanks!


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    #2
    Cork24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Cork24


    Why not use W3schools,

    or http://www.lynda.com/ they offer training videos..


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    #3
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Dreamweaver is a tool. While it's not a bad tool it doesn't do a great deal more than free programs like notepad++ and firebug. If you want explore web design then learn HTML and CSS (5 and 3 are the latest versions respectively). These languages for the meat and bones of websites, and you would be better off concentrating on them rather than learning the quirks of a particular tool.

    There are a bazillion resources out there to help you. Dive right in.

    PM me if you want some advice.


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    #4
    tramoreman
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭tramoreman


    you should try and do a course in html and css rather than dreamweaver i did a fetac level 5 web authoring course and found it very good


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    #5
    RainWing
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭RainWing


    Thanks for the suggestions!

    At the moment, I'm aiming to do a course rather than using the online guide. I've used the online before and it's great, but I think I'd stay motivated if I could get out and start training in a class.

    Which course did you complete, Tramoreman?

    I'm looking for a video-editing course too, incase anyone out there has ideas for that :)


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    Cork24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Cork24


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    Dreamweaver is a tool. While it's not a bad tool it doesn't do a great deal more than free programs like notepad++ and firebug. If you want explore web design then learn HTML and CSS (5 and 3 are the latest versions respectively). These languages for the meat and bones of websites, and you would be better off concentrating on them rather than learning the quirks of a particular tool.

    There are a bazillion resources out there to help you. Dive right in.

    PM me if you want some advice.

    Dreamweaver it doesnt do a great more than free programs :eek: what planet are you from ?

    Firebug is for debugging....

    notepad ++ if you want to type everything

    Let me see, with Dreamweaver i can do Ruby on Rails... PHP and have a build in ecart... which also allows me to use Adobe Contribute which allows me to link my PayPal account with my PHP site also i can do a MySQL database link with Dreamweaver.

    So some how i think Adobe CS5.5 has a great more detail to it then some sh**ty notepad..

    also with Dreamweaver you can have a Live view of the design without running IE or firefox.


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    tramoreman
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭tramoreman


    i did a
    fetac component Web Authoring Level 5 course

    i can say by using dreamweaver and notepad ++ that you do need to know code some people code some dont you should do which ever you are comfortable with

    fas run part time evening courses for dreamweaver


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    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Cork24 wrote: »
    Dreamweaver it doesnt do a great more than free programs :eek: what planet are you from ?

    Firebug is for debugging....

    notepad ++ if you want to type everything

    Let me see, with Dreamweaver i can do Ruby on Rails... PHP and have a build in ecart... which also allows me to use Adobe Contribute which allows me to link my PayPal account with my PHP site also i can do a MySQL database link with Dreamweaver.

    So some how i think Adobe CS5.5 has a great more detail to it then some sh**ty notepad..

    also with Dreamweaver you can have a Live view of the design without running IE or firefox.
    FC is looking at it from the OP's perspective and his intents and purposes ie. a beginner. Once he is past that stage, then your comments are apt.


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