How should I teach web design to students ? Use Dreamweaver or notepad ?
Sunday, February 28th, 2010I’m an experienced freelance web designer and I’m going to start teaching web design at a small computer center. If I teach using Dreamweaver, I’m afraid the students will not bother to learn up HTML. But if I teach html and css coding with notepad, it seems to difficult or too tedious for beginners ?
Sometimes Dreamweaver will screw up – for example you make a selection in design view and it will grab part of a closing tag.
Because of this I like to work in split view. You should demonstrate this so they understand why it’s important to know the tags. Also demonstrate how copying text or code from a web page can lead to problems unless you paste into notepad first.
I will be showing you how to create a simple web design in photoshop. There may be a second half to the tutorial on how to code this, but I am not sure yet.