Studying Web Design and Web Development?

Can I study in the US both together or do I have to finish one and later start the other?





I want to study a bachelor of both but I don't know if I have to study 4 years of web design and later 4 years of web development or both at the same time. I don't mind waiting 8 years but I don't know if is possible to study both in just 4 years. I don't want to study an associate's degree.





I have never done a website before (I always try to but never knew much) but I just love looking at different websites everyday and their designs and I always have ideas of how I want to do mine too and this is what I want to do as my future career.





I want to design websites plus controlling where the next page will go after you click an images (I think that's what a web developer do). ^ ^





For those that studied both, what did you do?





**I'm not good being creative when I draw (but I'm good at looking!). Do I have to study an asso/bache of arts before I study both?





Please help me and thanks!

Studying Web Design and Web Development?
Currently I am working on a bachelor's degree for IT/Web Design. Because Web Design isn't a big degree plan, most schools don't offer a bacherlor's in Web Design only. (that's what I was trying to do at first).





Right now, web design and web development are intertwined into my degree plan. There are many many schools that do this.





Someone mentioned above that there are many sites that teach this in just a few months. That is true, however, that's only really good if you want to freelance. Most businesses are asking for atleast a bachelor's degree now to design for them.





I have to tell you that I like taking IT as well. It makes web design easier to learn. There are many different areas of computers that are incorporated with Web Design that if you do find a school that offers web design only courses, you are at a disadvantage.





Some of my previous IT classes have been programming and advanced programming languages. This helps so so much when working with some web design techniques.





Really, you get what you pay for when you go to school for both.





If you want to try some online classes at a University I recommend Kaplan University or University of Phoenix. Both schools offer bachelor's degrees in IT/web design.





♥ Happy Designing!
Reply:You sound like you really want to do this but I'm afraid that it might be boring for you.





Web Developers have to know the most common languages in use to day they would be...





Databases like Oracle or SQL(My, Portage, Lite, etc).





Scripting languages like PHP, Ruby, Perl, ASP, etc...





Markup Languages like HTML, XHTML, WML, SXL, etc





In order to be a good designer you need to know how to work with the above languages.





There isn't alot of drawing in web development cause there will always come a time when you have to put aside programs like DreamWeaver or NVU and code by hand to achieve the desired results.





About the part on finding work...





There are a lot of people doing web design so trying to find a job is difficult. You can either work for a company and be told to do a site or go freelance and then wait for work to come.





I didn't mention all the hacking you will have to be doing to achieve browser compatibility.





I don't know about degrees cause I'm self taught but 4 years for all this junk is a waste of money in my opinion. You can learn everything there is to learn online.
Reply:there are many free sites that will teach you both web design and web development in a few months not years
Reply:Just go to a local community college and learn there, it will save you money compared to a 4 year school and you'll learn just as much if not more.





Here is a book that can help you learn the basics.


http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksea...