Learning Curve

The funniest thing I have heard for quite a while is that schools and Univesities still think that they are teaching to industry standards, when they don't really know how the industry is changing.

I am doing a multimedia course, which I have been told will positively advance my online aspirations along. Now, this is with them knowing that i don't want a JOB in a comercial firm doing humdrum designs for a BOSS, instead I want to work for myself and do the extra things that I want to give to my work.

Apparently, according to the tutors, there is no other worthwhile or industry standard web design program other than the Adobe CS3 suite. Hey, guys, I have never used this program before and I have designed lots of sites that have worked quite well.

To say that we must use this, and no other program can be used is literally hobbling any students into a set system. So when they get out in the real world, and have to use programs other than CS3 or worse still, older versions of the same program, they are going to get lost.

Now, I do some coding in a text editor, some in a web design program that is set up to show the coding in different colours to make it easier. I also have an old.... read as before Adobe took over from Macromedia, and the set up is so different it's not funny.

Anyway, I am plodding along and I will learn the program that is industry standard, but I will not neglect the other tools that are available to web designers everywhere that don't cost a fortune for a small time business to buy.