Online learning...

[Ben]

Does anyone know of a DECENT web design online learning course with a recognised qualification at the end, would prefer if it was affilated to a distance learning program run by a univeristy or similar rather than these ones that just make you use google for £2k.

Any recommendations welcomed.

[Southie]

Something like this Ben? CLICKY (http://internet.homelearningcourses.com/Internet%7Eand%7EWeb%7EDesign/Adobe%7EDreamweaver%7Eand%7EFlash)

[Prey]

Sounds like a stupid question but do you want to learn to build websites properly or just be able to build them drag and drop style? If it's the former then anything with dreamweaver in the description should be avoided!

[Ben]

Its not for me but my mrs, she has moved out here now and has a lot of time on her hands so i suggested she learns something new, She is pretty good with computers and likes designing stuff so seemed like a good move.

Would rather it be a proper qualification incase one day she could use it towards a job if she liked.

[Prey]

Sounds like it would be a good move then, personally I wouldn't worry too much about the piece of paper at the end of it and more about what they will actually teach you - most jobs will go on portfolio rather than anything else.

Not sure how good an online course could be, there's a lot of material out there anyway. Possibly get google reader set up with a load of industry feeds and tutorial sites and work through those. Stuff like this comes up pretty regular, it isn't super basic but it's the first one that I came across from a quick search, to give you an idea: http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/web-development-tutorials/psdhtml-conversion-code-a-clean-business-website-design/

[Ben]

Thanks for the advice

[Asa-James]

nothing with the open uni?

[Mike]

Open University is the best bet.

[sulphur]

It's not exactly what you asked for, but how about your Mrs teaching herself using online tutorials?
CLICKY (http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp) might be of use, worth a look imo. :)

[Jon_nova1]

Why web design?

I used www.distance-learning-centre.co.uk When i did mine, the first course you basically got taught the HTML and created the websites with notepad and saved them as html files, later on in the course you were shown basics of a webshop, dreamweaver, flash and multiple URL images, the second course was learning web design programs mostly

[Stuart]

A graphic designer friend of Carlys is doing a course with HomeLearning and she says its crap.

She would reccomend a course with Adobe and now wishes she did that oen straight away lol

[phazer]

A graphic designer friend of Carlys is doing a course with HomeLearning and she says its crap.

She would reccomend a course with Adobe and now wishes she did that oen straight away lol

Those courses will only teach you Adobe tooling though, granted the design world revolves around them but it will not give you indepth, transfereable knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS/whatever web tech.

Learn the underlying technology and you can transfer your skills to whatever your employer/design house prefer to use.

[Stuart]

well yeah, there is that....


tbh setting up an apache sever and installing php/mysql is pretty easy and loads of online tutorials cover it. Good way to start playing with the nuts and bolts before jumping into the pretty stuff.