I have been learning about html, CSS, and JavaScript so i can become a freelancer. still very new to the world of web design, but i really like it. i feel that i have hit a wall with all the reading and online exercises and that i can learn more by actually taking on projects. i still have a ton to learn and that makes me nervous about actually trying to get clients. what if they want me to do something i don't know how to do? what if its something i should know how to do? but i don't feel like i'm pushing myself like i would if i were working for someone though. so i'm asking people to describe their first time (with web design) and the process they go through with a client. or just any advice they might have. thanks
To be honest, i have almost the same experience with you, my work is related with HTML, CSS and ect. They are not something i am good at, but i am very willing to learn them. I have solved many problems that I have no idea about. But by asking and self-learning, i am quite positive and believe that if you are really like it, it is no way you couldn't do it excellently. Believe yourself, and work harder, also ask help from your expert friends.
Good that you two are interested in HTML and web designing stuffs. I am also interested in learning. And my source of learning is w3schools.com. Hope you would also get some help from there.
Read this before using W3Schools to learn anything. Start a site on a free hosting account and write a site. You'll learn a lot. Once you can create a decent site, offer to create sites for free for some local companies. (They still have to pay for a domain name and hosting.) That will give you experience in dealing with real clients (and you won't lose money while you learn).
Learn to code HTML and CSS by hand in order to master those languages. Always validate the pages you produce using the appropriate W3C (HTML/CSS/XML/RDF/RSS) Validators and correct all errors. Validation enhances Interoperability -- correct rendering in all user agents. However, web pages can, and do, fail validation and still display pretty much as expected in graphical Browsers anyway due to their built-in Markup discrepancy compensation -- thereby relying on the often unreliable error correcting properties of individual graphical Browsers. Validation does catch many easily corrected Markup errors and the resultant code is consequently easy to maintain or change. Pages containing invalid Markup may not display or function correctly in Screen Readers, BRAILLE interpreters and Textual Browsers or when incorporated into other applications. As we move toward the Semantic Web, the rigors of XML will result in a greater requirement for Valid Markup. Valid and well formed Markup also bespeaks careful craftsmanship and that appeals to many web authors. JP
You need to be brave and have confidence. Read the client's specification and ask if there's anything they left out before accepting project. Start off with project that you are confident you can complete, this will build up your reputation and let you have more work experience. If you are new to the site, you can show a brief sample before they accept bid, this will show that you are dedicated and you are willing to try. I start off like that too and everything is going well so far now. I'm sure you can do that too. Do let me know if you have any questions. Good luck!
Saves me the time of ripping a new hole in the backside of every dumbass who goes and suggests that outdated, invalid, and incorrect steaming pile of a website known as w3schools. It was web-rot a decade ago... now?
Well,you see how the experts do it,or get a degree in Information Technology like me,you can also read books like Web Design for Dummies.As Far as i know the only company that leads the industry of Web Design is MobiMonster .