I am currently a webdesigner.I know photoshop,dreamweaver,css and flash.I want to develop websites rather than design.I want to start it now.Should i start right now or after some time and with what should i start?I am since six months into this field.Please help me.
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I think you should start now if you're interested in it. They say there's no time like the present.
Galwegian
2010-07-14 13:31:39
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Read about Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP, Java Servlets, ASP.NET. Decide which you think most suits your needs, capabilities and workflow.
Artelius
2010-07-14 13:41:20
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As comments and another answer have said, "yes". However, I don't see you explicitly listing HTML under your skills. If all you've done to create HTML is Dreamweaver WYSIWYG stuff, I would recommend getting a better understanding of HTML as well - if not first, then at least concurrently.
GreenMatt
2010-07-14 13:42:14
I'm guessing that this person probably knows HTML based on them saying that they knew CSS. I personally couldn't imagine writing (good) CSS without a (very good) knowledge of HTML.
sigint
2010-07-14 13:58:55
@sigint: Likely true, but I thought I'd mention it.
GreenMatt
2010-07-14 14:27:45
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I personally feel that it would be beneficial to both you and your career if you could take part in the coding of a site as well as it's design. And as you learn more about web-coding (I'm assuming you have no coding experience) your view of how you approach webdesign will change as well (for the better).
Depending on where (front/middle/back respectively) you want to develop most:
Try installing XAMPP if you want to run a full development server locally. XAMPP
Best of luck.
sigint
2010-07-14 13:49:59
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Here's the book I started with a decade ago:
Highly recommended if you're just getting into development. PHP is a very popular language to start with.
MattB
2010-07-14 13:57:47