What is the best order in which to take web design classes?

I want to take dreamweaver, flash, photoshop, and whatever else i can find. Is there a certain order I should take the courses in?

What is the best order in which to take web design classes?
When I started out, this was a few years before adobe acquired macromedia (dreamweaver, flash...), I first took an intro to web design class. In that class, we didn't learn much programming language (HTML) but we did learn some dreamweaver, we learned web design trends and techniques, and other introductory stuff about the internet web design, and basics of development of websites. I actually learned photoshop, illustrator and fireworks long before I started learning dreamweaver, I'd recommend you do it that way because you can make websites using photoshop and imageready (a program that comes with photoshop) without knowing dreamweaver or programming language, but it does limit your abilities to create certain cool things. I then learned dreamweaver.





These days, I can create and entire web site prototype in photoshop meaning the look of the overall website is established, but the links, animations, rollovers, buttons or anything don't work yet, and to put it in simple terms, once the overall look is done, photoshop, with the use of its exact sister program called image ready, can export that photoshop file as HTML. I then open it into dreamweaver, and that is where I activate links, import flash animations, activate cool rollovers, create a template for the header and footer and make the other pages that go on the website.





Its actually VERY easy. So here are your steps for classes:





1. Intro to Web design or intro to graphic design (you'll be exposed some of the programs like photoshop, illustrator, maybe even dreamweaver.





2. Intro to Dreamweaver - you'll learn dreamweaver, it builds the HTML for you.





3. Any other programs you need - more photoshop, more illustrator... you'll learn how to create your own unique graphics for print AND web, but most importantly you can make CUTTING EDGE graphics and use them to import into dreamweaver or adobe go live.





4. and lastly, take flash... its considered a modifier in web design because you can still create GREAT designs without it, but the more expensive websites have them.
Reply:i'm doing multimedia and we do flash, htlm, photoshop, illustrator, in design, maya, premier, and after effects. i would recommend you start of with a strong knowledge of photoshop, move on to dreamweave and then to flash, thats if you wanna do it in steps. We just go all out and do them all.





hope this help..good luck
Reply:I would start with dreamweaver then photoshop then flash. You need to know how to use dreamweaver to use the other stuff. You will need photoshop for photo editing basic stuff before you can get advanced with flash.
Reply:Take the programming language courses... DW is only an extension, a WYSIWYG.





XHTML(HTML)/CSS


Photoshop


Flash


PHP/MySQL





That should be enough to keep you busy for quite some time.





Learn the NEWEST in web technologies, not old, archaic, and monolithic ways to do things like;





Tables are NOT for layouts. Tables are for tabular data.


Web Standards is a good thing and can be your friend.


No, doing stuff on MySpace is not real web design.


There are easier and better ways to build sites.





Good Luck.
Reply:I would recommend Dreamweaver, Photoshop and then Flash.