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i have a degree in computer science - have limited experience involving web site design / macromedia products about 4 years back !!

i have been working various administration posts in the meantime-i have been located in limerick generally but as far as i can see there are not many opportunities locally unless one has extensive experience in specific areas

im a bit at sea as to where to start
approach companies directly / register with agencies ?
what skills are in demand ?
companies that would offer training ?
opportunites outside of dublin ??? namely cork limerick clare ?
 
its been my experience that you're better off compiling a list of potential companies and mailing your cv directly to them (with covering letter explaining your position). A company employing you via an agency will have to pay the agency for hiring you and this means they will generally be more picky about your experience. Its also important to persist. When I started programming I had to send tons of mails out before I got some interviews and a job. you could always offer to design a website for a business for free in order to have some kind of track record for potential employers.
 
IT is a huge area. What specifically do you want to do. What did you cover in your degree?
 
Why not set up a few websites of your own - for practice and to show potential clients? Also - you could earn money from them from adverts if you get enough traffic . Google adsense is probably the best . Many people make a living from it.
 
Can someone tell me what the most commonly used software is for web design? thanks
 
For VB.NET ..c# then its can be macromedia Dreamweaver or Visual Studio 2005.

For flash website Macromedia Flash ...

For pure HTML Microsoft microsoft expressions is a nice package even has a spell checker for those of us programmers that can't spell ...

but there are so many languages out there and each having it own ideal package ...

PHP ... JSP even Ruby on Rails has it own development tool.

the package you use should be based on complexity extendibility
no point in using aspx when the webpage you are designing is static and the client only willing to pay 40 euro ....


If you had experience from four years ago well one thing about web technology it changing rapidly ... some of the c# commands are different there are new version ASPv1.1 ASP 2.0 and ASP 3.0 have seen significant changes ...

Hope this helps




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Pique318 said:
For Web Design ?? I think not !

Frontpage or Dreamweaver seem to be the commonest.
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How do most people look at websites. A Browser. Most people use IE. So when designing developing a website your going to spend a lot of time in IE testing your site.

As for other software depends what kind of design/development you are doing. Even what kind of design.

No matter what you do on the web you'll be using IE at somepoint.
 
thats a very good point for sure different Browser need to be tested for example a flash pop-up behaves differently on Firefox than it does on IE...

and as for testing well the designer should really never fully test its own webpage .... once I got a 10 year old daughter of a friend of mine to test a webiste I was developing and offered a 1EUR (meanie I hear you say) for every error she found .... she was the best bug finder I ever saw

and as for testing ease of use I got the grandmother to test it .. no point in having a website that is too complicated to use .... I can think of a lot of e-commerce websites that either don't work ( haven't been test) or just too complicated to use ... and what’s shocking was that one of them is a large [FONT=&quot]business [/FONT]that depend on on-line selling!...

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Having been in IT for the last 15 years, I think you're mad.
You should seriously consider doing a trade.
 
Or you could buy a book on php and mySQL -

as regards "doing a trade" - I have been in programming for 8 years and I have to say it can be a punishing environment - always tons of pressure and the rate of technology change means a lot of your experience can go up in smoke. On top of this if you work in a large company (and small companies usually pay less) it can be fairly boring work. Overall if you like a lot of pressure & really love the area (e.g. wanting to take work home) then you'll do well. I know people who come in and do their job and go home at the appointed time but who are viewed as under performing as they cannot compete with those who often stay late and spend their free time reading IT material
 
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