web design development

from a whirlpool forum,

Best way to start getting into web design would be to learn(in order):
(I say this because if you dont understand the basics of html then there is no point of doing dreamweaver when you dont know what the code is for something)
- HTML: The starting building blocks to web design
- CSS: Layoutting which makes formatting a webpage to a certain font and colour, and size etc easier

-----------------------Any web design elective in a TAFE/Uni course will cover this
- Javascript: A bit more advanced on html which lets you create some more complex functions on your webpage.
- PHP: Even more complex then java, which uses scripts that perform functions on a website

-----------------------Any web design/programming course will cover this
- SQL Databases: Which php websites are integrated into. Knowing FTP will be handy with this also.

-----------------------More advanced, There are electives for this in TAFE, but it depends on how far you want to go

Programs: Microsoft Frontpage was originally a popular choice but now that Dreamweaver has released cs3, cs4 it is by far the better option, and the industry standard. Again learn doing html in notepad before working with dreamweaver.

Courses:
Seeing as web design is becoming easier and easier to master, many places dont offer 1-2 year long courses, rather short courses that go for a few days
So for TAFE i found
26410 Basic Web Design (Front Page) – TAFE PLUS Statement
19046 Web Design Skills – Statement of Attainment (NRT)
26078 Web Design Using Dreamweaver – TAFE PLUS Statement

I had a look on some other sites and found interesting stuff
Web production Course: http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/web-production.asp
PHP and SQL: http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/php-mysql.asp
Dreamweaver: http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/dreamweaver.asp
Introduction to html: (Ideal for beginners) http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/html.asp

With all that said, its really upto you on how far you want to go. Doing the more complex php and sql courses will get you bigger websites from clients and bigger bucks. But if your happy doing just html and css sites for small clients then thats cool too.
There is also the choice of whether you just want to design websites or do all the extra stuff, like do the hosting, setup domain etc. Of course the more you offer the more you can change.

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what other people are saying about love,

at a thousand words, i can read, everything you love to hate via ffffound

and all because i took at least one,

pencil me in

ever since i was little i have been in love with stationery

(i can still remember visiting my dad's studio at work. we'd go to a special chest of drawers and he'd open up the pencil drawer - the smell of pencil wood would rise up and fill me with anticipation of drawings soon to emerge)

i'm still convinced it will help save my life

i am realising that i need to "draw" my demons out ...

exorcism by pencil & crayon perhaps

art and about

a (slightly unrealistic) art trail of the eastern suburbs of sydney taking in the following: paddington

• roslyn oxley 9, 8 soudan lne, paddington, 10-6
• kaliman gallery, 56 sutherland st, paddington, 11-5.30

bus to vaucluse/watson's bay, ferry to circular quay, bus up to central, and then continuing

surry hills, darlinghurst, paddington

• ray hughes, 270 devonshire st, surry hills, 10-6
• the artery, 2/221 darlinghurst rd, darlinghurst
• urban uprising - 314 crown st, darlinghurst, 12- 6
• australian centre for photography, 257 oxford st, paddington, 12-7

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123 how-to DIY

well, we got all married up

and DIY'd it

other DIY ideas ....

paper flowers in a jar

pom-pom vines

flower garlands

chintzy table ideas

on top of the cake, wedding gifts for guests

graphic design

fffffound

wasted rita, via this isn't happiness

on ffffound

ffffound,
graphic exchange

ffffound, i love dust


ffffound - lovely stationery

this reminded me of the ace 3-d neon on high st, thornbury

sadly the business is out of business but the sign lives on!

sydneyside

eating locally

kings cross organic food & farmers market, every saturday morning
bourke street bakers, 81 Macleay Street - opening in October, they're in surrey hills though. look yum

la buvette, 35 Challis Ave nice atmosphere .... ?
hole in the wall coffee joint

• peaberry espresso - 166 Riley Street
• room 10 - 10 Llankelly Place

cafe two ants,
70 Elizabeth Bay Road - very good poached eggs (apparently)

mere catherine

166 Victoria St, Potts Point

There's a daggy-sexy candles-in-the-wine-bottles vibe to this old gem. It's honest home-style food snuggled in a cosy corner of Sydney. It ain't the hippest kid on the block but it sets the mood faster than you can say "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"

The battery
St Margaret's, Shop 15 425 Bourke St, Surry Hills
2000 says,
darlie laundromatic at 304 palmer st, darlinghurst
open from 11 am, lunch & dinner
ooh steak sangas for $14 look good!

art

52 suburbs exhibition
museum of sydney,
Corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, NSW 2000
9.30 - 5 pm; $10 grownups

shopping

Pure & General
114 Brougham st
Potts Point

collector store

473 Crown Street, Surry Hills.