HTML/CSS useless on it's own?

[Askade.my]

Hi OP. HTML/CSS are far from useless, theyre still the foundation of most websites, especially if you put the effort into learning HTML5, which is quickly getting better at doing things you would have required another language for a couple of years ago.

Learning these provides you with the base skills required if you want to get into web dev. True that if you'd like to create dynamic sites a language like PHP or asp.net would be necessary, but i wouldn't recommend learning these until you already have a handle on HTML/CSS.

A lot of the PHP code you would write is there to manipulate HTML anyhow (looping for correct tables etc).

Stick to the basics, once you have them, look at your options.

xoxo

[sdesign1]

From an employer's view I really want a designer who can do HTML and CSS as well. If you think about it every design takes a few days - but the build takes a couple of weeks. this means my developers have more work than my designers. To correct this imbalance my designers need to be able to at least do some front end dev.

[daytona]

From an employer's view I really want a designer who can do HTML and CSS as well. If you think about it every design takes a few days - but the build takes a couple of weeks. this means my developers have more work than my designers. To correct this imbalance my designers need to be able to at least do some front end dev.

I feel pretty aware of this and as a uni student its great to know that i'm making myself more employable, but im just lacking projects to practice what im learning at the moment!