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#26 2006-02-23 9:32 am
Re: The best school online for web design
I look at careerbuilder and monster and just to get in the door in entry level about 7 out of 10 require a BA here in Miami, FL.
I have chosen to attend Miami Dade College for an Associates Degree in Internet Design Technology, after that I will jump at another school for deeper graphic design if I need it..
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#27 2006-02-23 1:35 pm
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Re: The best school online for web design
May I suggest something? Get an education learning how to solve the problems you enjoy solving. Use web design as a tool to solve these problems. If all you ever want to do is write XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc you will be up a creek without a paddle when Oracle buys MySQL and you don't want to learn Oracle's SQL quirks, or if XHTML + CSS morph into something else.
From my experience it is altogether more important to be able to help people solve problems than to make pretty and glossy themes. If you are able to help a client organize their thoughts, color schemes and the like you are of much more worth to them than someone who can just code. (As I've been told, "I can hire coders in Russia for $5/hr.") Then work on increasing your skillset while solving these problems. Or try to compete with Russians for that $5/hr.
I'm getting a BBA in eBizD from the Haworth College of Business at WMU. I am not the most proficient JS, CSS, XHTML, SQL, PHP, ASP coder out there, but I am skilled at figuring out what people want so that when I give a project back to them we can say, "Here's how this webapp solves each of your needs."
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#28 2006-02-23 3:33 pm
Re: The best school online for web design
Ralph the Dog wrote:
In my 30 some years as a professional illustrator/cartoonist/animator, I've NEVER been asked for a degree.
May I please see your degree?
Ha! Now your streak is broken!
Same here though. (though only about 15 years for me). It never comes up.
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#29 2006-02-23 5:37 pm
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Re: The best school online for web design
I just tell people I'm a Harvard grad.
They're usually too intimidated to check, and they end up offering me money just for sharing time with them.
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#30 2006-02-23 6:02 pm
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Re: The best school online for web design
Light Speed wrote:
Ralph the Dog wrote:
In my 30 some years as a professional illustrator/cartoonist/animator, I've NEVER been asked for a degree.
That's because you are a Dog Ralph. Hardly anybody thinks Dogs can have degrees so they forget to ask.
Scott wrote:
Ralph the Dog wrote:
In my 30 some years as a professional illustrator/cartoonist/animator, I've NEVER been asked for a degree.
May I please see your degree?
Ha! Now your streak is broken!
Same here though. (though only about 15 years for me). It never comes up.
I’m callin’ the ASPCA!
jcxp360 wrote:
I look at careerbuilder and monster and just to get in the door in entry level about 7 out of 10 require a BA here in Miami, FL.
I have chosen to attend Miami Dade College for an Associates Degree in Internet Design Technology, after that I will jump at another school for deeper graphic design if I need it..
This brings back a memory from my brief stint at Hughes Aircraft in the mid 70’s where a comptroller said he had no interest WHAT your degree was in. The value of a degree was not the knowledge it represented but, the sheet of paper itself. It was a token that proved you could be trained. If your interest is in doing 20 years at Ubercorp and resigning with a pension, a degree may be of value to you.
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