{"id":201,"date":"2007-09-18T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2007\/web-designers-study-guide\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T21:31:50","slug":"web-designers-study-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2007\/web-designers-study-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The technologies you need to master to be a complete web designer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web design has been transformed over the last many years. In many ways, the skills a web designer needed in 1996 are totally different from the skills you need in 2007 &#8230; and the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go into what you needed in the past, because it matters not. So let&#8217;s talk about what you need to know today, to be a complete and competitive web designer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Web Designer&#8217;s Study Guide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>HTML<\/li>\n<li>CSS<\/li>\n<li>PHP<\/li>\n<li>Javascript<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Comments:<\/p>\n<p>I think the first two on the list would make sense to most. But #3 is probably confusing the heck out of some of you, so let me make a few quick points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY WEB DESIGNERS NEED TO LEARN SOME PHP<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nIn a nutshell:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most web projects will require some basic dynamic functionality that PHP makes easy.<\/li>\n<li>Blogs and CMS software &#8211; read below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, it is becoming more and more common that web sites are based on a blog or CMS package. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Drupal<\/li>\n<li>Mambo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To take full advantage of these, you should be able to dig into the code so that you can make the changes for your clients particular needs. Not all blogs\/cms are written in PHP .. but many are, including the ones listed above.<\/p>\n<p>I go into more detail about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killerphp.com\/articles\/evangelizing-php\/\">php for web designers<\/a> on my dedicated PHP site for web designers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killerphp.com\">www.killerphp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web design has been transformed over the last many years. In many ways, the skills a web designer needed in 1996 are totally different from the skills you need in 2007 &#8230; and the foreseeable future. I won&#8217;t go into what you needed in the past, because it matters not. So let&#8217;s talk about what &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[27,100,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}