How Did You Learn Web Stuff?
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if they are print designers then they need to get their head round websites and useability as well as the technical sides of things.
you can be as technical minded as you like but if you are creating sites that people cant use well then theres not much point.
i did multimedia as a support to my graphic design at art college but i learnt the most in my first job working with shit hot peers. even then i was just designing and handing over stuff but i wanted to get into and learn flash so i got shown the basics and went off on my own to learn more. then i got my own site to use for my experimenting and obv needed to get into dreamweaver so i could put it all together. but i knew a basic bit of html from the mid 90s.
best thing is to find and mould a designer with a PASSION for new media and turn them into your web guy.
its different from print design cos thats been the same (really) for the past decade or so since computers were introduced instead of pantone pens. whereas new media is constantly evolving and you need to keep on learning things - and sometimes wont get the time to learn this during work hours. so if that person enjoys it then theyl be more likely to be more proactive outside work hours, working on their own personal projects.