This document contains advice from various people for students graduating in a year. The advice includes to pursue your passions, get hands-on experience through personal projects and open source contributions, maintain an online portfolio, participate in online and local communities, attend conferences and events to network, and start a blog to demonstrate enthusiasm and initiative.
7. (X)HTML
<p><strong>Hello</strong>,
world!</p>
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8. Be Strict
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//
DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//
DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
strict.dtd">
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9. Semantics
the meaning in your mark-up
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10. Headings
<h1>The main heading</h1>
<h2>A sub heading</h2>
<h3>A sub-sub heading</h3>
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18. Older browsers
Internet Explorer 6 - I’m looking at you...
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19. Main IE6 issues
CSS bugs
Lack of support for some CSS properties
No Alpha PNG support
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20. “Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with
Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning
for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had
very little chance of reading a document written on
another computer, another word processor, or another
network.”
Tim Berners-Lee
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21. Graded Browser
Support
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/
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22. Other devices
Phones, screen readers, the iPad, whatever comes next
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60. “[...] let me know what piece of advice you would give
to someone who will be graduating in a years time,
what would you suggest they are thinking about now to
help them be as employable as possible upon
graduation?
http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2010/02/27/your-top-tips-for-students/
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61. Love what you do
“I truly believe the most important thing a web
designer/developer can have is passion, because if they
are excited by something, they can learn it.”
- Ryan Townsend
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62. Get real experience
“Get your hands dirty building and designing things that
see the light of day. Maybe its not a site, but an iphone
app, or contributing code or small UI enhancements to
a favorite open source project.”
- Chris Casciano
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63. Your own site
if nothing else, start a blog and/or portfolio site – most
employers will be looking for enthusiastic and proactive
people, and a potential web designer who hasn’t got a
personal website is neither of these!
- Rick Hurst
Friday, 26 March 2010
64. Community
...take part in as many online communities as possible,
ask questions of other people about what you are
doing, help people out when they have problems you
know the answer to. This work will become your
’social signature’
- Tim Parkin
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65. Networking
“Many web events offer good student discounts and I’ve
attended FOWD and going to DIBI for very reduced
rates and students should be encouraged to attend
these and any local events.”
- Graeme (current student)
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