I might have asked this question before, not sure, might have been another forum.
But yeah, is it a necessity these days that 'designers' know how the ins and outs of web development? I mean, I did 4 years at university, first year was computing and we did a module of web, second year we were able to choose a module to build upon for our degree, and I chose web because I was *okay* at the front end stuff. Second year it was completely different, it was all the back end stuff and I hated it. It was all PHP and MySQL, ActionScript, which was just horrible. I ended up changing to something that was closer to what I liked doing (and was half decent at, at least more so than web), and had to spend an extra year at uni.
Now, when I'm looking at jobs I see, along the lines of;
"GRAPHIC DESIGNER, must have an eye for design etc. etc. be competent in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and have knowledge of WordPress blah blah, must have experience of MCV framework, software patterns, test-driven design, and version control. HTML 5, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, PHP, MYSQL is required etc."
That's just an example, might have over exaggerated some skills needed but, pretty much every design position I see includes some front and back end web developer skills.
So my question is, am I gonna have to start learning web? At least CSS, HMTL (again) and WordPress?
But yeah, is it a necessity these days that 'designers' know how the ins and outs of web development? I mean, I did 4 years at university, first year was computing and we did a module of web, second year we were able to choose a module to build upon for our degree, and I chose web because I was *okay* at the front end stuff. Second year it was completely different, it was all the back end stuff and I hated it. It was all PHP and MySQL, ActionScript, which was just horrible. I ended up changing to something that was closer to what I liked doing (and was half decent at, at least more so than web), and had to spend an extra year at uni.
Now, when I'm looking at jobs I see, along the lines of;
"GRAPHIC DESIGNER, must have an eye for design etc. etc. be competent in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and have knowledge of WordPress blah blah, must have experience of MCV framework, software patterns, test-driven design, and version control. HTML 5, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, PHP, MYSQL is required etc."
That's just an example, might have over exaggerated some skills needed but, pretty much every design position I see includes some front and back end web developer skills.
So my question is, am I gonna have to start learning web? At least CSS, HMTL (again) and WordPress?