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Future Skills for a Budding Web Designer?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-should-I-learn-next? dept.

ericdfields asks: "One of my lifetime career goals is to establish myself on some decent level or another as a well-rounded, (mostly) standards-based web designer with some backroom web development knowhow. The problem is I have no clue where to begin. HTML, CSS, JavaScript are an obvious start, but what about other web-driven languages? PHP, XML, SQL, Perl... the list goes on. Should I be looking to grab hold of some Flash and Director skills? What abilities will be needed on the horizon that I can get an early start on learning today?"

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  1. Most important things to learn... by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's important to know how to use the french fry timer, so your fries don't burn. Also, you will eventually need to know how to operate the cash register. Fortunately, they usually have pictures of the items on the keypad, so it should be a quick study for nearly anyone.

    1. Re:Most important things to learn... by Squatchman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everyone knows that you start by washing the lettuce. After a few weeks there, if your skills start to show, they try you out on the fryer or grill. Years of hardwork down the road and it's a management city full of easy streets for you.

    2. Re:Most important things to learn... by numbski · · Score: 2, Funny

      I worked as a manager at a Burger King when I was 17. They had a tomato slicer that the blades were dull on. I mean REALLY dull. You'd slap a tomato on there, and ram the tomato through the blades as hard as possible, and inevitably, every time, the tomato would get stuck in the blades.

      You'd have to pull the handle back, and take your fingers and push the tomato through with your bare hands. Now you tell me what happens when that tomato finally gives?

      Uh huh.

      Over and over this would happen. They even provided a chain-mail-like glove to wear while using it, rather than just getting a new tomato slicer. Of course, with the glove on you couldn't possibly get the tomato pushed all the way through, so you'd take the glove off and...yeah.

      How often do you think that thing was properly sanitized too? Bleh. I hate tomatoes.

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  2. I say this with a smile on my face. by numbski · · Score: 1, Funny

    Remember to salt the fries.

    Hone your customer service skills.

    Become handy with a spatula. :)

    (Sorry, I don't have anything constructive to say here. I know HTML inside and out, JavaScript, CSS, Perl, and MySQL. Couldn't be hired as a web designer to save my life. So I'm a Unix Admin instead.)

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  3. WEB DESIGNER? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    Go back to say....1996 in your magical time machine

    Join the HTML Writers Guild

    Get a copy of HTML For Dummies

    Move to California

  4. Most important by BigChigger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Learn to speak Hindi. BC

  5. Re:....JavaScript? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    JavaScript has it's place

    An apostrophe has its place. And that wasn't it.