So i have been learning web disign for maybe 6 months now from google and various other web sites, have started my first main project of which i have designed from scratch in photoshop and now putting it together as a site, which i very rewarding. It is far from finished but feel free to leave comments of likes and dislike if you wish. mattbarber.primaldesigns.co.uk/site Now the thing is i feel i have got to the stage were i know a enough to keep me keen and intrested in web design ,and would like to try and persue it further but i would also like to try and save myself time and not learn the wrong things and if possible be pointed in the right direction of what next would be a good thing to learn or what i seem to lack/miss etc. (i hope you can make sence of that hehehe). Please advise. A very gratefull SeventhSin.
Looks nice! I think you're pretty good in web design, better than me for sure Next logical thing to me would probably be php and sql since these are the main things when creating a website with a database (members only sections and so on).
Well i know a very tiny bit but yes that could be a good start, as tbh i only know how to create a database add users etc then install php scripts that ahve lets say install.php (the easy way ofc, not the indiviual file way) Any other suggestions guys keep them coming.
hey, nice design! how about trying to learn some javascript frameworks - scriptalicious, jquery, prototype - then you can add some cool ajax-type features you could look into codeigniter for learning php also, drupal and some other open source cms are good to know
Maybe u should try joomla, wordpress... or visit: http://php.opensourcecms.com/ there you can try a lot of different CMSes online.
Thanks for your input so far guys any more as i will have a detailed look into all these suggestions.
i would like to lean javascript etc, but i seem to see alot about joomla and word press now days is that possibly the wau foward
It seems the width are breakout . It is nice design . From the site, I thought you had learnt web design for at least 2 years .
Sorry to ask, but i was a little confused... Did you mean judging from my site you would say i have been doing it 2years? if so massive thanks. It seems the width are breakout. <- what is this? do you man when u click the links the site moves aliitle out of align?.
SeventhSin, you are doing a lot better than me and I have been web designing for about a year (not whole heatedly). The website looks great and if I were you I would learn some jQuery, PHP and SQL next, followed by Wordpress and Drupal/Joomla.
ok so i have had a littlle browse around, and this jQuery looks like something i would be really intrested in, would any of you guys know of any good sites to learn jQuery??
Well, there are a few good tuts on NETTUTS.COM, but I think they are more advanced, check them out anyway.
Check this in your HTML; <link href=" body.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> Code (markup): And change to... <link href="body.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> Code (markup): The logo image 'alt' text says 'Go back home'but there is no link... Looks good though, maybe add a faint border with a bit of padding to the image in the white space. It does look good though considering the time you've put in learning.