I'm a self-taught website producer without a degree. If you've got an aptitude and a passion for graphic design, you should master the computer tools out there, like PhotoShop, Flash, Fireworks. You would collect fonts and be able to recognise the most common ones and have an eye for appreciating advertising, logos, brands, liveries, websites, signwriting, magazine styles. We're surrounded by it everywhere in the modern world, and it all started by somebody drawing something!