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stubby43
stubby43 aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.
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studying web design - anyone know a good school?
Recently I've become really interested in new media and internet theory, I'm constantly reading about what's happening in the net and how things are developing and I have a few ideas of business's I want to start myself.

My problem is my programming skills are some what lacking and the type of stuff I want to do is higher level programming.

For example I want to build an etsy escue market place but I'm aware that this is pretty high level code.

I wouldn't mind studying web design and programming but I'm not interested in learning programming languages that arent to do with the net (like visual basics or c++) are their any schools that cater to just that area?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Phil

ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Oct 28 '08 at 12:58pm
might be easier to just team up with people who know about programing?
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Oct 28 '08 at 1:00pm
EricDiaz
EricDiaz on Oct 28 '08 at 1:00pm
I went to school for Graphic Design and in my third year ended up doing a 5 month internship at a web design company. I learned a crap load of stuff there. I did zero programming though, looking at codes all day would drive me nuts! I studied in Holland so i wouldn't be able to help with suggesting a school, i'm useless.
stubby43
stubby43 on Oct 28 '08 at 1:01pm
Maybe but a website like that his highly complex and requires alot of server space, its a fairly large investment in terms of time and money.



Theres always the open source option but how do you get people interested? and what about the issue of revenue (I'd be using the ebay/etsy model which is to take a little bit of money off of each transaction) plus it would be part of a larger site that would allow the uploading of members videos, photos and articles to the site.
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Oct 28 '08 at 1:01pm
sorry. i don't know why i posted that here. huge mistake.
lunchboxbrain
lunchboxbrain on Oct 28 '08 at 1:02pm
i don't know of one college that's better than any other when it comes to web design but there's a shit ton of resources on the web for everything from css to php.
ginetteginette
   ginetteginette on Oct 28 '08 at 1:03pm
going to school for the few things you want to learn might not be worthwhile. lunchbox is on the right track with his suggestion i think, you'll probably learn quicker and be able to focus on the things you want to learn rather than follow a school criteria.
stubby43
stubby43 on Oct 28 '08 at 1:12pm
It probably is the better option and in all honest I dont want to go to school again but I'm not very good at learning on my own which is why school was good because I was pushed to do stuff.



Having said that if there was a lot of other stuff I felt I didn't need to know I'd be bored.



Its just my lack of programming skills is holding me back, I'm not in a position to go to an investor and ask for money to build a company, they'd atleast want some evidence that I can build an audience/market.
sonmi
   sonmi on Oct 28 '08 at 1:16pm
i don't think there is one college, per say, that really excels in web design. i'm pretty sure any technical college will give you the training you need. just take a class in web design and it should teach you the basics.
stubby43
stubby43 on Oct 28 '08 at 1:20pm
Well by college I mean a course.



My problem is the way the UK system works is that you pick your degree then thats all you do, so I only take film classes if I wanted to take a web design class I cant unless I decided I wanted to get another degree.



There are course's you can do after work but I doubt they'll be as higher level as I'm after.



P.S I sound like a brat, thanks for all the help and advice everyone.
psherman42
psherman42 on Oct 28 '08 at 1:21pm
Not sure where you're at programming wise right now, but I'd recommend checking out W3 Schools
evercurious
evercurious on Oct 28 '08 at 2:03pm
you're in canada at the mo', right? i think vancouver might have some decent looking courses - i wasn't looking at them for this area, but i think i remember browsing past them (those courses that fall somewhere between evening classes and degrees).
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