Web Design Home Study Course ?

[Barakka]

My wife is interested in learning about web design as a possible career direction change through a home study course. Anyone had any experience with one/some ?

She currently works as an AutoCAD engineer so is more than computer literate and (IMO) able to tackle something like this. But she's also not under the impression that after completing one 3 month course she'll have a new career, it's a matter of her getting the grounding to understand how it all fits together and see if she likes it to take it further.

She found a course on the internet, well two courses as a bundle: http://www.distance-learning-centre....ING_BUNDLE.htm and from looking over them they seem to cover off the basics like HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScrpt, hosting, standards, and touching on apps like Dreamweaver and Flash etc.

Anyone heard of Distance Learning Centre ? Or know of any other courses you could recommend ?

TIA

[kaillum]

howdy... My firm favourite is the Wrox Stuff. The Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS is a good grounding.. together with Notepad

Once she's happy with how everything works, its then time to think about the accessibility of the code. making sure your meeting at least WAI AA standard, aiming for AAA.. really need to be running your code through and studying results from the accessibility checkers (taw and cynthia are the main ones I use... together with the Firefox Web Developer plugin)

After that, when she's decided on what way she wants to go, whether she wants to concentrate on the web design, or move to web and application development

ASP .Net is my preferred 'poison' and is the most 'marketable' in a big corporations... whereas PHP and MySQL is more of the smaller independant design houses...

Unfortunately, without projects to work on, web design theory is pretty boring...

If you want any more info then drop me an email to kaillum@hotmail.com...