I am currently working for a marketing / design company as their IT administrator. They have approached me about starting web design side to the company.

 

I know that I will need training that will cover photoshop, dreamweaver and flash. But is there anything else that I should look out for? also can anybody recommend and instrutor led training course that will cover all the essentials, and that good quality course.

 

 

Thanks

 

Guy

Easiest way is to teach yourself, look at tutorials on htmldogs.com and w3schools.com and there are tons of ebooks and vids all over the internet, its really not that hard to teach yourself, I taught myself in about 3 months and im only 17.

you will want to beware of courses in web design, most of them are not up to date, but if you decide to take that route my suggestion is that you check that the course covers css, if it does then chances are that they will teach you properly.

 

if it does not cover css... keep looking

to be honest Guy- I cant think of a nationally recognized web design qualification to train yourself up you need the right books -theres a lot of rather poor ones i'll only recommend books i've bought /read

 

 

html/css

 

html dog-make this the first book!

beginning css web design

css mastery

 

usability

dont make me think

jakob neilson- designing web usability

 

you should be able to get your works to pay for these

 

Carl