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i just started learning css grid and html, i happened to see this program, is it for someone who already knows how to make websites or also for new learners?.
By @Zaid231951099ddc
I don't think Dreamweaver provides you with any advantage over any other website editor UNLESS you have access to it through having a full creative cloud membership. If not then you are better off using a free web editor such as VS Code.
Css Grid is complex as it can be written in a number of different ways and I dont think any current editor has the ability to provide all of those options, so to get the best out of css grid you will need to learn to hand-code it, which means any web editor or text editor is all you really need and some good resources on css grid of course.
Do you have any advice for me? I just just started learning html and css grid like 8 days ago. I was mostly into games.
By @Zaid231951099ddc
Below is a resource that may help you with css grid:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
However before learning css grid I would advise you to learn Flexbox:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Flexbox is a much simpler workflow to grasp initially - you will need to use it in combination with css grid eventually, to leverage all of the benefits.
Css grid is more powerful as its more flexible in terms of producing layouts. The methodology it uses does not restrict it to linear columns/rows which makes the placement of items really easy when you are considering how you would like the flow of items to apppear on mobile devices.
Its going to take a while to grasp learning html/flexbox/grid, etc. I don't know what your long term goals are if any but if those plans consist of perhaps a career in development then learning to code IS THE ONLY WAY to progress, despite what you may hear from others about low-code/no code solutions, frameworks etc. Anyone choosing that route is on a dead end road.
Good luck and post back if you run into problems or have any questions.
by Learning to Code you mean i should learn to do everything without using snippets? my goals are a career in web development.
By @Zaid231951099ddc
Snippets of code are absolutely fine, eventually try, as you get more familar with coding, to use snippets that you have created yourself so you become familiar with what the code does and how you can alter it to suit specific requirements.
The reason I say learning to code, in your case, with your goals in mind, will be your best option is because your skills will be more marketable if you need to look for a job. I'm not implying that you dont investigate frameworks like Bootstrap, a front end css solution, as you will most likely need to know that as well, just dont let it or any framework define you as a developer. The landscape is continuously shifting and these frameworks come and go but vanilla html/css/javascript is the core of building websites and apps. If you have good knowledge of those your future will be assured as opposed to following some niche workflow/product which will eventually run its course and you will be left skill-less.
Good luck, I cant say I envy you........I wouldnt want to be starting out now myself, its a lot, lot tougher than when I first started out due to the excessive amount of options you have, which ALL really do much the same.
I disagree on the snippets thing and when we take on Juniors I train them NOT to do this. You can develop in a way where you do not actually understand the code enough. You have enough knowledge to copy and paste things and get an output and MAYBE tweak. People who do that I find often get lazy and continue with that for far too long and thus are time along in their development life and do not have the skill sets they should and throw them the modification requests to take something further and they fall into a googling web hell and even if those developers again solve something with an output - its messy and its not good.
So it would be going into it with cauation and if someone is using snippets to learn what is going on there.
By @Liam Dilley
I absolutely agree, which is why I stated you should use snippets which you have created yourself once you have acquired enough skills where you are comfortable enough to write them. That way you actually get to learn over time what the code is actually doing and how to extend the snippets for different uses. I think its ok to initially start by using other developers code IF you are prepared to allocate time to try and understand it and replicate it using your own knowledge. It's not ok just to keep copy and pasting, you're supposed to be a developer so be a developer.
one of my friends told me that web development has no future because of the ready to use websites that you can buy. but i thought it won't be a loss to learn it, if it has no future i can work in the optometry field.
By @Zaid231951099ddc
Seriously if I had a choice between optometry or web development I'd choose optometry 10 out of 10 times. Obviously if it is not something you particularly like then I can appreciate that and you must follow something you consider is going to fulfill your own satisfaction.
The way I look at it, an optometry professional is giving something useful back to society, those in need, particularly if you have ambitions to further your career in that area. It's a highly transportable and highly respected profession, every country in the World needs optomtrists, whereas there are an abundance of web-developers, plus amatuer web developers 'stealing' work from those who are professionals. You need zero qualifications to practice web-development leaving the way open for 'crooks' to infiltrate the profession and in doing so they down grade it and pollute it.
At the highest level, yes, web-developers can command good salaries BUT its risky and your friend is 100% correct, over the last decade, particularly the last 5 years, there has been an explosion of no-code tools or low code tools which opens the way for anyone to develop websites, very very badly. They have ruined any credibility web-devlopment once had. The industry itself is in turmoil on account of there are so many smaller and smaller groups of developers specialising in different workflows, each thinking their way is the correct way. It's not a great profession to be in any longer in my opinion.
Choose wisely.
thanks guys, it was really informative talking with you. as for the degree, i live in iraq so must companies that want web designers are hiring by experience not degree, they will see your skills and hire you, maybe that's not how it works outside of iraq. currently im studying optometry i will graduate this year, i wanted to learn web developement, one of my friends told me that web development has no future because of the ready to use websites that you can buy. but i thought it won't be a loss to learn it, if it has no future i can work in the optometry field.
By @Zaid231951099ddc
I'm sorry, maybe this comment doesn't answer your questions, and got lost in a market analysis. I did not think while writing it that it was going to take this turn
As @osgood_ said... if it's for a living run for optometry... I share this idea
I haven't went in the middle east since a while, but I figureout that what happenned in Europe will happen there too... soon or later, if not already...
the problem as your friend said, is not only that online services, now produce for free what used to be the core business of small agencies.
The problem today is similar to what the general grocery stores experienced when the big distribution conglomerated in a crusher of small businesses and an unfair redistribution of market share.
so today, at least here in France, the service companies (SSII) which were the big and indestructible structures, and in full rise, ten years ago, became today the small businesses which struggle to exist and to survive... then from there, imagine what can feel a small one-man business !!!
so being small, to live of its creation without having a niche market open and receptive, is a utopia... this is very much in line with what your friend was telling you about free online tools
thus remains the wage-earning,
and to become employee of a big structure, there are two cases of figure...
- either as @Nancy OShea says it... it is the diploma which opens the door to a salary, finally a miserable salary... don't forget that this is the end of the glorious years...
or
- either as you ,@osgood_ and some how @Liam Dilley say, experience... but hey... don't forget that the required level of experience today is very high...
the web is not only based on HTML and CSS, but all the environment as well as technological , strategic and architectural, without forgetting the side of content strategy and communication transversality linked to social networks that gravitates around... and need to be taking into account during the development phases
and for that... this experience is a guarantee of time and practice, and not of a learning in corner of table.
I don't want to discourage you... if, and to come back to the beginning of this comment... it's to make a living out of it, and to feed your family, go for optometry, especially if it's already a given... here in France we are cruelly lacking in ophthalmologists...
on the other hand, if it's for a passion... don't hesitate, roll up your sleeves, and know that even if the road is long and complicated, it's neither barred, nor forbidden... but not only HTML and CSS oriented
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