It's true that you can only learn so much from school and the rest is all up to you. When I graduated in 2000, my expertise included CD authoring in Director, sound editing, layout design and web design. Anything else that I know to this day, I learned on the job or independently.

Multimedia CD-ROM Development and Flash
Multimedia design is a very broad path, which branches to different areas of design. I used to think that I'd be a CD-ROM/video game developer all my life. I was wrong. I slowly left Director and shifted to Flash - a program I actually learned in more depth while working on the Craigavon CD that I developed for a Northern Irish company in 2002. From there, I developed a few more Flash presentations online and on CD, but I never an entire website. I was always opposed to creating a whole website in Flash because it's difficult to maintain and if it needs to be reworked, it's like drawing a whole new blueprint. I only use Flash as an enhancement on a website when JavaScript and DHTML cannot be used efficiently on a page.    » read next