I’m pleased to announce that starting on August 26th, I will be an Adjunct Professor at Nashville State Community College. I see this as incredible opportunity, not just because of the ability to shape the future web designers of Nashville (it’s a level 2 Dreamweaver course) but because I will be determining a lot of the course content.
Now, I know that there are certain things I want to cover. For example, 4 out of the 15 weeks will be covering the last chapters of the Dreamweaver textbook given to the school by Adobe. I flipped through it, and it’s a wealth of great information.
One week will be used to cover the schools upgrade from OSX 10.4 to OSX 10.5, and I will add in an intro to the WHY of CSS and not just the what.
That still leaves 10 weeks in which I can pick and choose the top things that upcoming designers need to know about.
- Coding for IE6
- Converting from Photoshop to Dreamweaver
- Converting from Photoshop to Dreamweaver (may need 2 classes)
- Blog/CMS systems (and designing for them in Dreamweaver)
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And that’s what I have so far (which, considering I left the meeting 2 hours ago isn’t too bad). What I need is for you as clients, designers, developers, and every other reader to tell me what you think is important for designers today to learn. Keep in mind that most of the basics have been covered, and these aren’t in order, just as I come up with them.
So, if you see anything you think would be worthwhile, comment or send me a message. Anyone who does will be thanked personally in my Syllabus.
