mtt19

In Italy the universities teach a lot of things that will never be useful for the working fied, in fact italian graduated are required in UK most of the time for research jobs or teaching. In this moment I don't even have the money to go in another city to study something useful, so I can't go in UK and take the university that is very expensive. Maybe a college diploma in development, but later and not now. Now my only possibility is to focus on the study of web development, on my own Did you have experience in the field when you took the internship? I would love to do some internship but I'm worried that without some experience I can't.

Hi guys, In your opinion, is it necessary to have a degree to become a good web designer/front-end developer? In my country (Italy) there aren't bachelor for this field, so I'm studying on my own, in UK what is the most important thing to obtain a job as web designer in the company/web agencies? The portfolio or a degree? What did you study to become what you are now?

I really appreciate your advices, I've already read a good italian css3 book and I've bought "HTML5 The Missing Manual" and "jQuery: Novice to Ninja" that I'm going to study soon. Other books you think should I read about html, css and javascript? As I said yesterday, my biggest problem is the graphic, so, can you recommend me the right road to improve my graphic skills and design theories? What books should I read?

Hi, thanks for the answer. I'd prefer to be a web designer or at least a front-end developer, but in Italy the people who want to do this beautiful job have to know graphic design, front-end development and usually back-end one too (as a freelancer, I mean, and in this time is the only possibility, no one is assuming in my country), so I'm a bit confused about my career. The fact is that with my experience (almost zero, I'm just a student with basic adknowledge of html, css, javascript and php because I've studied IT in the high school, but in a really poor way, so I have to re-learn almost everything) I can't find partners, so I should do the entire websites on my own, for the moment. How the things work in UK to become a web designer (or front-end dev.)? If I specialize in ONE field, like front-end development (html, css, jquery and a some cms like wordpress) how can I do a good portfolio to come in UK? Do the company take people without experience in the internship or Should I have first a really good portfolio with my works? Hope you can solve my questions and sorry for my bad english

Hello everyone, like I said in the presentation thread I'm studying web design (and I also come from Italy, so I don't speak english very well). Up to now I've studied basic html, xhtml (Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)), css3, usability (don't make me think) and a bit of tipography and color notions (The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 2nd Edition). In the last years I've studied at school html4, css2.1 and a bit of javascript, php and database so I'm not totally extraneus to this world, but I'm completely ignorant in the graphic field. How can I solve this situation? Could you give me some advice about the experience to do and the books to buy? Thanks in advance for the - I'm pretty sure - really good advices, bye!

Hi guys, I'm Mattia and I would love to be a web designer. I'm from Italy, so my english is really bad, but I'm studying both this beautiful language that web design. I found this forum on the web and I hope you could help me with my study. Goodbye!