Comments on: How hard is it to break into the web design industry? http://digitalinsanityms.net/how-hard-is-it-to-break-into-the-web-design-industry Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: K-milk http://digitalinsanityms.net/how-hard-is-it-to-break-into-the-web-design-industry/comment-page-1#comment-177 K-milk Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:41:34 +0000 http://digitalinsanityms.net/how-hard-is-it-to-break-into-the-web-design-industry#comment-177 Not hard Start by learning HTML http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp then go to java,flash, php, peral, CGI-bin, and all others lol Not hard

Start by learning HTML

http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp

then go to java,flash, php, peral, CGI-bin, and all others lol

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You need to have the artistic skills and creativity to design cutting edge web pages, and be able to bring multiple pages together into a website.

You need to understand the social network, and have an elemental understanding of marketing.

You need to have good tech skills. HTML, Cold Fusion, PHP, whatever. Dreamweaver probably.

Then you start building a portfolio. Build out a website of your own. Make it look great. Offer to build a few friends a website. Volunteer for a church, or fire station, or something like that.

Then you have creative skills, technical skills, and a portfolio of your work that people can look at.

Print some business cards up, and constantly network. Hit sites like Craigslist and look for work.

Its not a hard career to break into, it can be a hard career to excel at, and make good money in.

However, it can be done.

College doesnt mean much. I would prefer a web designer with an art degree versus IT degree, and frankly it doesnt matter. Most great web designers are self taught.

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