Professional Web Designers!

Professional web designers are constantly changing theirs skills because the web is constantly changing.

the web has a fast-paced nature, and some people considered this a good thing. because this can open up opportunity. others on the other hand hate it simply because they need to learn new web designs skills on a regular basis.

… Personally, I see it as an opportunity with a headache!

The following is what you need to know as of right know to be a web designer.

Some Basic elements:

• Domain names
• Hosting
• FTP and HTTP

Web design skills

HTML

• The basic core tags
• Basic HTML concepts
• Which TAGS not to use
• HTML tables
• HTML forms
• Proper page and web site structure

CSS

• The core CSS properties
• Basic CSS principles
  • Adding CSS to pages.
  • The cascade in CSS
  • CSS page layout
  • Getting around CSS cross browser conflicts
  • Understanding CSS limitations

Misc. Skills

• Basic design principles – white space, fonts, alignment
• Image types used on the Web (JPG, GIF, PNG). The pro’s and cons’.
• Basic image editing/creation for the websites – sizes and optimization. Photoshop is a good place to start.
• Web site usability – how to make websites more user friendly.
• SEO – making websites more search engine friendly.
• Basic PHP
• Basic Javascript – Jquery
• Web design software: Dreamweaver or Expression Web .
• Understand the web design work flow.

Optional Skills

• Flash for Web animation and web application development.
• Get to know a blog or CMS engine. For example: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla.

Thanks for reading!