HTML/Flash Where to start?
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- spookykat
I'm a graphic design student that graduated last year and realized how saturated the design market is with Web requirements. Any suggestions on where to begin learning the basics, shortcuts, avoiding pitfalls?
Web has been something I wanted to learn but too lazy to actually take the time to learn it. Before I started learning graphic design in 01', 6 years have passed and I know jack sh@! about it now =/
I plan on going back to school during the fall 08', and any help/ideas/comments would be greatly appreciated.
- airey0
i've always found these books pretty useful:
flash:
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.…dreamweaver:
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Drea…
- JSK0
http://ceregistration.newschool.…
take a basic web course. i dont really believe there is a solid web course out there. you can take NYU's digital communication which covers everything as a BA .
- JSK0
- spookykat0
I am in NY, but too poor to take anything from NYU. I'll probably try to get a certificate or something out of it so its not just a class.
- spookykat0
Both New School and NYU look really interesting but its really costly. Do any of you guys think web design can be learned by learning it from books/internet? I probably will take a course but it will be from FIT or SVA.
- JSK0
try other SUNY schools or CUNY..
do a search on web 101. learn some basic fundamental principles of web, how it works etc. more on the technical end.
- JSK0
I mean, even looking at this will help you.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/web…
I learned about the web from this site years back.
http://www.webmonkey.com/
- ukit0
"Do any of you guys think web design can be learned by learning it from books/internet?"
Yes, absolutely. My base of knowledge, it's probably 5% what I learned in school, 95% learned from the web or from work. You just have to learn what the good sites are and immerse yourself in it.
- JSK0
Also, you have to a curious mind. Think how does that work? Where do I start? Who can I ask? How can I copy that (you can learn lots from trying to copy what someone else did).
- ukit0
http://alistapart.com/ has some good basic tutorials
- spookykat0
I think I absorb information rather quickly so that should help. Yeah I looked at webmonkey long time ago lol. But never really really used the tutorials. Is it still up to date?
- JSK0
It is pretty basic and I think they did a refresh of their stuff.
- Jnr_Madison0
- lynda.com is good tho.Jnr_Madison
- First lesson > HTML ... then you can move on to CSS & XHTML.. then you'll know where to go.Jnr_Madison
- ismith0
http://www.alistapart.com/
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/
http://www.htmldog.com/
http://www.csszengarden.com/The last one is fairly a good reference once you're looking at source code to understand how things are done.
- These are very basic though... there are many more with more specialized interests.ismith
- spookykat0
This is awesome, thanks for all the input guys.
- kieguy0
more web/html/css resources...
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http://www.sitepoint.com/
http://www.alvit.de/handbook/flash...
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First place I'd start is the great starter tutorials built-in to Flash itself.
Another thumbs up for lynda.
and Adobe TV...
http://tv.adobe.com/