Web Design Degrees

Time was when you could design a standard website using basic HTML and some skill in graphic design. In fact, there wasn't much else available. These days, if you want to make a living from web design, you need to master much more. Modern commercial websites feature not only top-flight graphic design but also interactivity, animation, multimedia, and programming. If you want to get into web design professionally then you will find that web design degrees are what you need to learn all the necessary skills and make yourself a serious candidate for web design jobs.

What opportunities will web design degrees create for me?

The Internet and ecommerce are major growth areas, so graduates with web design degrees should have bright futures. Web design houses and companies with in-house Internet and ecommerce departments need employees with an array of web design skills. You might undertake website design as a specialized graphic design job, where you are responsible for visual layout and graphic content, integrating multimedia, or use XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets to format a web site style. As a web site is often an important component of corporate identity, designing sites that reinforce that corporate identity can be a key part of business marketing.

What kinds of web design degrees/courses are available?

You will find quite a choice of web design degrees and diplomas. As your interest is mainly in design, and you may study at a graphic design school, you will probably not study languages like JavaScript or VBScript in depth. Your focus will probably be on areas such as

• Computer animation
• 2D and 3D design
• Graphic design
• XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language)
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Colors and image manipulation
• Multimedia design

Study in these areas offers a well-rounded portfolio of web design expertise.