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Alright, so coding isn't crucial for a web designer?

 

My goal is to take a few months to become a good designer, practice doing sites for people for free/experience, and applying for some web design obs at local businesses to be a web designer.

 

 

 

Thanks.

Coding isn't crucial depending on the job availability :) Especially with small businesses, you're often looking at filling a coder and designer spot.

 

With Flash you'll want to learn Actionscript, Java would be a good language to know, Perl/CGI. Build on that CSS and pick one of those languages as a specialty, someone you're really good with and like using.

Alright, so coding isn't crucial for a web designer?

 

It really depends on what you are looking to for. There is a lot of overlap between the visual appearance, the typography, the quality of the code, the structure of the information, the front or server-side scripting. They are all quite different, but inter-related, and require different types of skill and knowledge.

 

Some people have mediocre skills in several areas, others are experts in specific domains, and a lucky few are expert in multiple domains. Different companies or agencies will also look for generalists or specialists.

 

Personally, I started off trying to do a bit of everything, then focused on html/css a lot. Now I am happy to look to learning DOM Scripting and other things. Just do what you like the most and see what happens from there.

 

You'll have to see what advice more experienced people have, because my circumstances might be peculiar!

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