Comments on: On Quality Education

By: Maria Design

Maria Design — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:31:11 +0000

I so far haven’t found a college or university that provides quality program for Web Development or Graphic Design. Or at least one that will make you a professional.
This is bad but it is true. My personal experience shows me that self education in this field is much better that spending years in a college that will show you only the basis. Moreover, nowadays you can find so many professional and most importantly up-to-date courses and tutorials online, some of which are worth even more than a university degree.
Sadly, usually paper books are being published with a bit of delay and it turns out that the web is the right solution if you want to be up-to-date with the current trends and standards.
My advice to those who really want to become professional web designers and developers is to bet on self-improving and constantly search the web for new articles/books/tutorials/useful forums. It is far better than take a university degree and stop your education there.

By: Hemebond

Hemebond — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:59:59 +0000

I’m happy to say that we teach XHTML in my beginning web class, and standards will be included more and more as I continue to gain expertise.

Does this mean we’re going to have even more web coders filling the web with XHTML served as tag-soup HTML?

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RD2 Blog : Blake, You Are So Money! - RD2 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:02:04 +0000

[...] Blake Elshire first caught the attention of EduTF via his comment to our Buzz On Quality Education. We invited him to tell us a little more about his experience as a student in interactive media design. Read the interview“ [...]

By: chima ugwulashi

chima ugwulashi — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:46:31 +0000

quality education is solution to the technological challenges of the 21st century to be planned along school quality.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:14:12 +0000

Quality education is necessary tool and all educational institutions should be privatized to increase the quality of education – speaking of Europe countries.

By: Dheeraj Mehrotra

Dheeraj Mehrotra — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:45:48 +0000

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By: Dheeraj Mehrotra

Dheeraj Mehrotra — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:44:23 +0000

Quality Education is necessary tool for the time today. One must have an access of all the tools of learning, imparting must be done using these TOOLS particularly the IT Tools as it is now mandatory to carry your own image in the cyberspace. Be literate IT literacy is compulsory. Happy Computing.
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By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:36:18 +0000

I go to school at University of Hartford and they teach up to web standands there. I’m in a program called Interactive Information Technology and I’ve learned so much, its a great school.

By: Jorge Pinon

Jorge Pinon — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:52:47 +0000

That was supposed to say “(like the font tag)” above.

By: Jorge Pinon

Jorge Pinon — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:51:36 +0000

I’m a web design teacher (and do-er as well, thank you) at the Memphis College of Art and have found since I started teaching that most beginning web design books, even recent ones, sadly still have large sections that discuss table-based layout, frames, even deprecated tags (like ). Suggestion to writers: avoid even mentioning deprecated tags because they’re, well, deprecated, and you’re book will be outdated as soon as they glue the cover on it.

I have looked at the table of contents in Ian Lloyd’s book. It looks good and I’ll probably be switching to it, but I only wish it focussed more on design (XHTML and CSS) and less maybe on adding a blog or getting your site on-line. In that regard it’s more of a how-to than a text book, if that makes sense. It makes me have to also use something like Stylin’ With CSS to supplement it, thus requiring my students to spend more money.

I still haven’t found that one killer book, maybe the EduTF’s work will encourage someone to put one together.