darkwing2k6
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
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May 04, 2011 - 23:41 |
 
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hello folks, i will shortly be enrolling on a Web Designer and Developer course to help me in a change of career and i was wondering if there are any Fumbblers that currently do this for a living? Would be nice to have a chat with people and get some "real-life" feedback on what the job is like.
Thanks
John |
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koadah
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
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May 18, 2011 - 11:42 |
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WhatBall
Joined: Aug 21, 2008
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May 18, 2011 - 15:58 |
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Poor old off-topic, it got put beneath the Archive. 
I've done some web design, but very little development. Drop my a PM if you have questions and I will try and answer. |
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darkwing2k6
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
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May 18, 2011 - 22:05 |
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hello gents  i dont have any technical questions as such but i would appreciate your thoughts on the learning package and qualifications i will be doing over the next year..
1st year Courses-
1. Learning HTML, CSS, SEO, XML and Javascript
2. Adobe Photoshop Associate qualification
3. Adobe Flash Associate qualification
4. Adobe Dreamweaver Expert qualification
2nd year Courses-
1. SQL Express
2. Relational Database Design
3. ASP.Net in VB 2008 or C#2008
4. MCTS .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Applications
5. MCPD ASP.NET Developer 3.5
6. MCITP Database Developer
7. CompTIA A+ and Network+
well thats pretty much it. im just really after someone to confirm that having these qualifications will give me a good starting base from which to work with. are any of these skills something you have been asked about in interviews etc?
ive just found out that a friend on one of my car club forums is a freelance web designer and he has none of these qualifications and is purely self-taught. so his portfolio of work i imagine must be pretty impressive to help him get jobs without formal qualifications.
thanks for taking the time to read this
cheers
john |
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koadah
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
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May 19, 2011 - 00:09 |
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Sutherlands
Joined: Aug 01, 2009
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May 19, 2011 - 01:11 |
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Self-taught freelance designer doesn't mean anything. Good code is good code and bad code is bad code. Both get jobs, unfortunately. If you don't have anyone holding you to standards, you can write however you want. As koadah said, do you want to be a designer or a developer? the first year courses will help you with design, the 2nd year will help you with development. Although if you start for any large corporation, there's no way you'll be using all those ones in the 2nd year.
If you want to free-lance and work on small projects by yourself, you'll find most of those courses useful, except maybe the networking (although maybe still the networking).
If you join a corporation, you'll probably need one or more of these skill-sets, depending on company size:
Image/logo design - photoshop/flash
Website design - html, css, xml, javascript, asp.net (+ maybe dreamweaver)
Back-end/middleware development - .net, c#, vb (ugh), knowledge of sql
Database development - all the database stuff
Networking - networking
The last 3 generally don't have much to do with the web development, but in a small company, or developing by yourself, you'll need to do more than 1 role. |
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darkwing2k6
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
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May 19, 2011 - 10:13 |
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Thanks for the replies. Personally im not swaying to either designer or developer. I am going to complete the courses and along the way i will know what is interesting me more but will still have a good foundation in all aspects.
The training is provided by the National IT Learning Centre www.nitlc.co.uk
aswell as training they also do career transition to help you with cv and finding a job. |
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