Hi folks, this has been playing on my mind for a while now and I thought it would be better to get some other opinions on it.
I'm a web designer / developer and graduated from uni in June. Since then I've been doing a 3 month month contract for a company working as under the status 'Web Assistant' and have been redesigning their website by coming up with a completey new design (which they are extremely pleased with) and then integating it with their existing asp content management system. The contract ends at the end of September but there's a big chance I'll be kept on.
At uni and in my own time i've always focused on the design part of things, for example making websites as easy to use as possible, always following accessibility web standards by learning everything about xhtml and css, and using my eye for design, photoshop and a bit of flash to make them look stunning. As well as this I have learnt the basics of PHP/mySQL and so far have created a very simple content management system for a website of my own.
Using ASP with MS Access is something I've never really looked into as i've never needed to, until starting the contract. I wouldn't say i find it difficult but if I were to stay on with the company I would be asked to make a website completey using ASP, and I really doubt I could do that. I've been trying to learn it from books and so on but it just isn't happening.
I have the choice to go back and do an honours year at uni where I'd be taught ASP.NET properly, but I don't find that interesting, I would rather be a web designer rather than a developer. I don't want to learn all the in's and out's of complex web programming languages when I could be focusing on my passion: human computer interface design, accessibility and learning everything about photoshop, flash etc.
My choices are as follows:
Do people think I will need to learn web programming such as asp, asp.net, sql etc in order to succeed as web designer? ... i'm looking for some serious advice on this one, as I'm stumpted.
Thanks for reading
I'm a web designer / developer and graduated from uni in June. Since then I've been doing a 3 month month contract for a company working as under the status 'Web Assistant' and have been redesigning their website by coming up with a completey new design (which they are extremely pleased with) and then integating it with their existing asp content management system. The contract ends at the end of September but there's a big chance I'll be kept on.
At uni and in my own time i've always focused on the design part of things, for example making websites as easy to use as possible, always following accessibility web standards by learning everything about xhtml and css, and using my eye for design, photoshop and a bit of flash to make them look stunning. As well as this I have learnt the basics of PHP/mySQL and so far have created a very simple content management system for a website of my own.
Using ASP with MS Access is something I've never really looked into as i've never needed to, until starting the contract. I wouldn't say i find it difficult but if I were to stay on with the company I would be asked to make a website completey using ASP, and I really doubt I could do that. I've been trying to learn it from books and so on but it just isn't happening.
I have the choice to go back and do an honours year at uni where I'd be taught ASP.NET properly, but I don't find that interesting, I would rather be a web designer rather than a developer. I don't want to learn all the in's and out's of complex web programming languages when I could be focusing on my passion: human computer interface design, accessibility and learning everything about photoshop, flash etc.
My choices are as follows:
- Go back to uni and learn ASP.NET properly
- Learn how to build a content management system now using ASP now, so to stay on at the company.
- Look for a job in Web Design and continue with what I enjoy, learning as much as possible about Photoshop & Flash & Accessibity in the mean time.
Do people think I will need to learn web programming such as asp, asp.net, sql etc in order to succeed as web designer? ... i'm looking for some serious advice on this one, as I'm stumpted.
Thanks for reading