On all graphics design we have many visitors enquiring about the many aspects of a design education. What schools are good, what they will study in a design education curriculum, is it worth the money, what area of a design education should they focus on, and what are the differences between the different areas (graphic design education / web design education / web development education / multimedia & animation education), what design school should they choose? Of course many of these questions boil down to individual opinion and circumstances, but to the extent we can we'll explore these questions about design education. Design students and potential design students often don't understand what the difference is between a graphic designer and a web designer. In the internet age where so many people are obsessed with the web, there doesn't seem to be anything else out there. The truth is though, that most design work is still done on projects that will result in a physical product. You end up with a sign, letterhead, business card, billboard, package, or so many other things. All of these items have passed through the hands of a graphic designer. Within the field of graphic design there are many paths that you can take. People specialize in areas such as packaging design, designing for bulk mailing, or corporate identity design. I say this because graphic design is about using images to communicate messages. That is really what web design is all about. It wasn't until people wanted to expand their means of expression that the internet boomed and became common on college campuses. It was graphic designers and artists with vision who turned the web into a powerful tool instead of just a glorified text book.

So are all web designers also graphic designers? The answer, in my opinion, is that most web designers are trying to be graphic designers. The opposite however is not necessarilly the case. When a web designer creates a website, they are trying to use a combination of text and images to convey a message. When the web designer does not have any skill in graphic design that message is often lost. A web site designed by a good graphic designer who has specialized in web design can be a work of art in its own right and it is much more likely that the graphic designer will be able to convey her message. Problems come up when a graphic designer does not specialize in web design but they are expected to make web sites anyway. Graphic designrs without any web design experience are going to have similar problems to the web designer who doesn't know their way around graphic design. There is a lot that goes into a good website that isn't just on the surface. The graphic designer isn't going to have a background in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), the graphic designer isn't going to be able to tweek their HTML (instead relying only on WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver or G-d forbid Frontpage) ... this can cause all kinds of inconsitensies on the page. Not to mention the troubles with making sure that the page works fine in multiple browsers. While a graphic design education and a web design education often overlap, an education in web development does not overlap with one in graphic design. Web development unlike design is not about images and it is not about communication. It is about making everything work behind the scenes. The web developer is essentially a web programmer. They take a design created by a web designer and add programming to the design to give the site additional functionality. It is the web developers job to add shopping carts to a site, or login pages, or chat. The web developer makes the web interactive using languages like JAVA, PHP, PERL, ASP and many others. It is helpful if the developer knows something about web design because it makes it easier for the web developer to commuicate with the web designer, it is often not essential though.

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