Web Design Skills
This seems like a long list and it is but I’m not bragging. I love doing every single last bit of this stuff, even when I’m tearing my hair out trying to code a layout that works across all of the browsers (including IE). I’ve worked *very* hard on this stuff and I do *not* know it all. I still have a *lot* to learn. But that’s life and here’s the list:
- Web tools and technologies:
- xhtml (extensible hypertext markup language): basic language for building web pages
- css (cascading style sheets): styles and/or positions web page content
- javascript: scripting language that adds interactivity and functionality to web pages
- DOM (document object module): the logical structure of an xhtml document — can be manipulated by javascript and other scripting languages
- MySQL database language
- Coldfusion: web application development software
- php: don’t know it yet but it’s on my list
- WordPress: blogging software
- CMS Made Simple: content management system
- Imaging and other applications:
- PhotoShop
- Flash: learning fast
- Illustrator: can hack around and do decent wireframes, etc.
- Audio and video processing: learning Garageband and can hack around in iMovie
- Concepts and methodologies:
- Project management: small-scale
- Web site requirements analysis, information architecture, wireframes, user personas
- Usability/accessibility-related deliverables: user test report, usability inspection, task analysis, style guide, accessibility inspection
- Office applications — yes, these are important too, I use them all the time:
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel (er, actually, I’ve been an Excel user since it was called Visicalc ;-))
- Microsoft Powerpoint