Adobe - King of web design

Way back in 2000 I was thinking about getting into web design but I wasn't entirely sure how to go about it. It just so happened that I went to this party and was talking to a female friend who was working for some internet company and knew a fair bit about the subject.

She said she used these products from a web development and graphics software company called Macromedia - namely Dreamweaver for web development and its sister program Fireworks for graphic creation and editing.

I thought this would be a good place to start and as luck would have it I was a student at the time and was able to get a student discount on Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4 (and some other programs that I never really looked at) bundled together for a reasonable price.

With these programs I was able to create my first website with some help from a book with a companion CD-ROM from Lynda.com and some tutorials combined with what I was learning at tech.

Today I own both Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS5 (the latest versions) from Adobe (who took over Macromedia in 1995) and am able to create websites fairly easily combining both these superior tools.

Even though these programs are a bit expensive and many programmers I talked to along the way told me they just hand-coded in Notepad or a similar basic text editor, I think that these 2 programs are a web designers dream and I simply can't live without them. Check out the whole Adobe family!

They really rock, save you time and are just brilliant!

Web Design is fun!

Web design is something I am really passionate about. This does not mean I am an expert on the subject of the internet or particularly advanced at complicated web design. It is just really fun!

I enjoy other people's web pages, especially those about web design. I thank those people that taught me and allowed me to reach my particular level of expertise; and I hope by writing this blog I might be able to help other people beginning to learn about web design attain the same level of knowledge that I have (or hopefully surpass it!)

There are many good websites about learning about the web, articles, technical solutions or code examples of HTML, CSS etc. and I intend to link to these to help other web designers and also act as a log or history of my own learning evolution.

It is still a learning process for me ... I don't think you ever stop learning or discover more efficient techniques to help you reach your goal.

This blog is, of course, only my opinion, and is nothing particularly new. Its been done countless times before but i think this blog will make it all clearer for me and just maybe it might assist people in the same position I am now or was a few years ago.

Anyway, here goes ...