Quote: (10-14-2012 10:29 PM)megatron Wrote:
Quote: (10-14-2012 10:05 PM)IQVX Wrote:
Get a Bachelors in Computer Science or Information Technology, tout that alongside a portfolio of your web design work. You won't get serious enough consideration without a four-year degree.
Are you a web designer or work in a related field?
Interesting. What you're saying seems to be in direct opposition to what everyone else is saying here.
And while I want to learn to code Ruby, Python for Rails and Java eventually, maybe go into Android App Design, I'm going to focus on web design first.
So you think a good portfolio won't be good enough?
I'm about to graduate with a degree in Information Systems (Basically IT with some business fused in). While web design isn't my main forte, I've met people who were taking new media and web design classes at my school to finish up a Bachelor's they tried to pursue years ago. They'd dropped school in the past and worked little jobs related to web design or development but couldn't find anything steady. If you can afford it, you should absolutely get a four-year degree. Essentially guaranteed a job with a CS/IT/related Bachelor's, and it's one of very few four-year degrees you can say that about.
An exception would be if you're absolutely outstanding at web design and truly feel like your work is good enough that it's not worth the investment of pursuing a degree.