Web Design Classes?

[mountaineer]

I have an aas in computer engineering technology and have been considering taking online web design classes through my local community college. They even have a certificate course in web marketing I may look in to. It never hurts to try and improve ones work I guess.

I am good with the basic html, and photoshop stuff, but I want to start making things a bit more flashy.

I was wondering how many of you have taken web design classes, or have a degree in information technology? Do you feel that it has helped you succeed?

[Ramster]

I have not but have considered doing so and still might! Design skills one could always use.

[ArtWilliams]

Originally Posted by mountaineer

I have an aas in computer engineering technology and have been considering taking online web design classes through my local community college. They even have a certificate course in web marketing I may look in to. It never hurts to try and improve ones work I guess.

I am good with the basic html, and photoshop stuff, but I want to start making things a bit more flashy.

I was wondering how many of you have taken web design classes, or have a degree in information technology? Do you feel that it has helped you succeed?

In my former life I was a professional accountant then I went back to school and took web programming (not design) -- a 6 course diploma from a community college. I have no regrets.

I think there are two advantages (for me) to doing that. One, I learned things that otherwise I would be too lazy to tackle (i.e. PHP, javascript). Two, when working with mainstream clients it gives me more credibility because people like to see credentials.

[cthulhu_waves]

Investing on education is never a waste of money, time and effort, my Dad used to say.

:-)

[LD]

I've always done computer stuff by the seat of my pants, asking people questions, tackling stuff I probably have no business doing, fucking things up an begging for help...

...but I enrolled in a community college working toward a degree in computer science (I have a degree in a non-computer related field), and I think it has helped me a lot. I highly recommend it. I only go to class twice a month at night, all the rest is done online.

It's fun, and if nothing less makes me feel young again being in class with hot college babes. (of course, these days there are milfs, matures, grannies, and most everything in between.. )

[mountaineer]

Thanks for the replies I feel a lot better about taking these classes now.

[Toby]

I have a Bachelors in Comp Sci, and even though it pre-dates the existance of the Worldwide Web by more than a decade, I still find it very useful in my day to day web site work.

[StrokeKing]

I've been thinking taking classes too. but time management is my main prob.. but if i do i would probably take Video Editing or web designs. There is always a room for improvement...

[housekeeper]

I got my bachelors degree from the School of Hard Knocks, and did undergraduate studies at UCLA (University at the Corner of Lennox & Amsterdam)
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I would recommend formal training or night classes to anyone in this field, myself included...
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Particularly with respect to design or acquiring programming skills..

[RedCherry]

I have two degrees, a Bachelors in Accounting and a Bachelors in Information and Computer Systems. Unfortunately, I got them in 92, before the internet really was available.

What they did do though was give me the basics in coding. We studied Basic, COBOL, Pascal, and Fortran. None of which I used after I graduated, but I can look at PHP code, and follow it because of that base. I can also modify it. And if I lived where I could go back to school and take a class in php coding, I would.

It also opened doors in the mundane world to jobs because of the degree, I wouldn't have otherwise had. When I lived briefly in California, I saw kids that knew how to program JAVA pulling in a lot of money too.