Few days off to learn, what should it be?
I have a few days off from the hustle and bustle from my main job and am looking to learn a new language which would benefit me the most in web design. I am fairly well knowledged in HTML, FLASH Design, Graphic design, javascript, (dreamweaver, fireworks, flash). There are a lot of programming langauges out there which I have no clue about and it's been a while since I had time to learn a language.
ANy suggestions on a code/language/program that would really give me another edge in web desing?
THANKS
IkeWeb posted this at 16:43 — 27th December 2004.
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(besides spell checker!!! LOL)
Troy1960 posted this at 17:17 — 27th December 2004.
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CSS would be fun to learn I guess. That might be a quick one to look into.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 18:30 — 27th December 2004.
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Try to combinate XSLT and CSS.
That's the future.
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 19:17 — 27th December 2004.
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Actually, learning Chinese is the future, as their economy is set to overtake the US and Japan in the future.
Apparently, most of the money will be in translator contracts.
That's what I'll be learning at my next school
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 01:31 — 28th December 2004.
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What heebie means, of course, is learn XML, because you'll want good internationalisation and Unicode support.
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 11:31 — 28th December 2004.
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Yeah, yeah, course. That's just what I meant.
*suspicious cough in background*
Phil Tanny posted this at 16:55 — 14th January 2005.
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This is definitely not a weekend job, but learning Perl has been one of the most fun and interesting chapters of my webmaster career. You could get a good start in a weekend by a first read through Perl For Dummies. You can do a lot of useful fun stuff with just a basic understanding of Perl.
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CptAwesome posted this at 10:46 — 16th January 2005.
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Well, the only problem I see him having with learning Perl is that it isn't inline with webpages, and he seems to be more focused on the front end.
If you are looking for something to merge the front, and back end, you might want to read up on http://smarty.php.net/ which is a php based templating engine, and if I am not mistaken has full php function support, so you could try merging that with your existing skills, and then learn the basics of Smarty, then the basics of php, then get more complex from there.
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