Learning Website design

shanky garg · October 4th, 2008, 10:03 AM

hi !
I am new to the website design. How

to start with it ??

Thanks,
Shanky

Rob · October 4th, 2008, 10:30 AM

Hi Shanky....

What have you done so far and what do you WANT to do. There are many areas of website creation and it would help me to point you in the right direction.

D3niss3 · October 6th, 2008, 12:37 PM

Hi there Shanky!

Welcome aboard mate!

Any specific aim at the moment?

JasonStanley · October 6th, 2008, 06:44 PM

Start with a book. A book provides structured learning and if you get the right one it will be really comprehensive. Learning online can be very much hit and miss.

As for what the book should be about its up to you. You want to design websites right? If so HTML + CSS is the way to go. You should also look into Photoshop/Fireworks if you want to do some website designing. The rest is just practice.

mercurybiz · October 14th, 2008, 02:03 AM

Basically, all you need is being creative. Learning tools and technologies are very easy but being web designer , I think this came from own knowledge, it is gifted..

once you have the basic foundation all you have to is to play with scracth work, make some point of view and sketch your prefer design. then go along with Photoshop(any version). Using Photoshop is very easy, just search into google or yahoo such as "how to..." and you will able to see the different tutorials about web designing.

Once you have an idea on the output you will be able to design.

Then after you create good desing using photoshop , you may now apply it using Adobe Dreamweaver. In this case, you need to chop your image using photoshop then place to dreamweaver.

AlanUrb · October 15th, 2008, 04:19 AM

Hi
I started by using a book - a simple 'Teach Yourself HTML' and once I had this mastered bought an HTML bible to refer to when I wanted to do something new. That way you get the basics and learn the syntax and protocols and can build from good solid foundations. A good knwoledge of HTML has stood me in good stead over the years.

I have then added on more knowledge in the same way. Get a basic book/site resource get the principles and buy a 'bible' on the same subject for reference.

The other investment is...time! You can achieve anything if the time, dedication and effort is there - and of course forums like these!

If you need any help feel free to PM me.

Cheers

welshstew · October 15th, 2008, 04:44 AM

there are lots of online tools to help you start learning, such as w3schools and htmldog. these will give you a good basic understadnign of html and css, from there it's just a matter of practice and experimentation.

what you do from there, as rob said, all depends on what you want to achieve.

sakhan24 · October 20th, 2008, 02:57 AM

For Html i would recommend w3schools and to learn css i would recommend sams teach yourself css in 10 minutes it's a very handy book to start with css

11Sale · October 20th, 2008, 05:14 PM

If you are new, use the ready-made programs... like dreamweaver or frantpage to design pages.

devguru · November 13th, 2008, 04:45 AM

To be a website designer you have to in a creative manner.First start photoshop, flash, pagemaker and image ready. Take an intiative with abook and you will be a good website designer.
Thanks

zooki · November 14th, 2008, 12:10 PM

I don't think you necessarily have to start developing with a program. When I started out I would download free templates, open them up in notepad and adjust things to see what it affected. Then I moved on to a program..a lot of schools here in the states start you out in notepad. DreamWeaver and the others sometimes become a crutch due to the design view.