I'm off to explore new horizons

As a designer who has lived in the world of print, web design has always felt like a foreign world to me. Sure, talk to me of PMS, cmyk, picas, points, die cuts, direct to plate, Macs, and the days of QuarkXpress... and I'll have some stories to share.

I've always wanted to get into web design but I was so unsure of how. I took a Dreamweaver, and a Flash course but I found that it wasn't what I was looking for. What was I looking for? Hard to say. I think that's what I found overwhelming. Print and web are SO different--at least in my mind, they are. There are so many different ways to design web pages and every company might have different programs and hardware that they use. Everybody I talked to had a different opinion--I didn't know what would be best to learn; I didn't know where to start.

So, I'm taking the plunge and I've enrolled in Web Design and Development program from Conestoga College.

http://www.conestogac.on.ca/fulltime/program.jsp?SchoolID=2&ProgramCode=1251&v=1201&p=c

I'm hoping it will be a bit like learning to drive a standard transmission car. It might feel awkward at first, but with time, and practice, it becomes second nature.

I'm expecting that someday soon, that URL that I bought ages ago will have more than just a holding page on it!