Best web design language/application?

[psi]

I want to do a web design course after I finish my exams in October.

What's the best language or application to do a course in? Dreamweaver seems pretty popular..?

Comments

[jadedgeneration]

Dreamweaver would be a must from my experience in web design. Obviously XHTML and CSS are a necessity and come part and parcel. Action script and VB also pretty necessary.

[spacetweek]

Cute budgies!!

[jadedgeneration]

Thank you :)

Sebastian (above) died this morning OH NOES! He was sick though, so it's ok.

[mekon]

In my opinion, you're wasting your time learning Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver itself is just an IDE, a tool for speeding up the process of writing for the web. It's useless without an understanding of how to write these pages yourself. (And besides, most places I know worth a damn have ditched Dreamweaver in favour of something newer/nicer, like Coda.)

I would say that if you don't know anything about it yet, learn CSS. It's the most important thing to happen to web design in the last 10 years and most people still haven't gotten their heads around it. Get a good handle on that and you're well ahead of the curve.

(If you want to get more advanced, I'd suggest checking out PHP or Ruby - languages for writing actual web applications. Ruby in particular is very much in vogue right now.)

[spacetweek]

Argh!!! Coda is Mac only!!

[mekon]

Of course, who the fuck does any serious web development on Windows, or *spit* Linux?