Complete newb of web design

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by MCJim, Jun 25, 2008.

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    Hello, I'm interested in learning web design. What specific sources/tutorials do you recommend?

    Thank you very much in advance :) I know of W3schools, and while it is great, its not the best for design.
     
    MCJim, Jun 25, 2008 IP
  2. Xavier_3D

    Xavier_3D Well-Known Member

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    Try Tutorialized.com, what exactly is that you wish to learn anyways? Designing or Coding?
     
    Xavier_3D, Jun 25, 2008 IP
  3. rmiller

    rmiller Peon

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    I'm going to assume you have photoshop, or you have some way of getting it (it's not too hard). I wouldn't recommend using any other program, but if you plan on it just modify my instructions accordingly.

    This is what I recommend. Go through a lot of good web design tutorials (look at the final result first and see if the writer can actually design). Here's a good resource for that:
    http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/adobe_photoshop/website_layouts/

    Once you feel comfortable creating a couple different styles, find some design inspiration site like http://cssremix.com/ . Find designs you really like and try to figure out what makes them good, try to make your own designs mimicking that style, and stuff like that. Don't plagiarize, but I do think the easiest way to learn is to just take someone else's design and dissect it. Once you've done that enough you'll have a lot of design ideas and styles that you can do.
     
    rmiller, Jun 25, 2008 IP
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    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    if you wanna learn web design,i guess you should learn some basis about photoshop first...get a book and download photoshop, play with it and learn the basis.
     
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  5. MCJim

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    Design by coding. I'm fairly good at coding the content of the page. I just have to make it look nice.
     
    MCJim, Jun 25, 2008 IP