Hello, first my name is Tom, I am fairly new to website design well taking it seriously I have made websites in the past from following Tutorials, I have Photoshop CS5, Dreamweaver CS5 etc, I can code HTML and CSS fairly well along with PHP however when it comes to designing I am not very good, I always have a block of inspiration and even if I do get an idea I have trouble getting it from my head to the screen. I am looking for some beginners tips, things to do that will help. Anything that you believe will help. Thanks, Tom.
Yeah I planned on learning Javascript and jQuery soon, I was just wanting to get a good design at least started so any tips on the design side of things?
These are just a few suggestions. Â I'm not saying that they're the absolute best ways or that everyone will agree with me; just my two cents for what it's worth. Read the tutorials on Six Revisions. Â Look at free templates' code and analyze how/why they do things a certain way. Â Read the W3C tutorials as xtrashots9 suggests. Â Buy a Lynda membership and watch their screencasts on web design. Â Participate in design contests on CrowdSpring to build up a portfolio and to get feedback on your designs.
Desiging wo wo wo !! I am a coder myself and despite over 15 years of programming experience, i am still not good at graphic designing. I not saying you wont be good either. Its just what i know that most coders aren't creative enough to design graphics. Similarly Graphic guys try hard to code, but are never as good as we are !
When you see a website and you see an effect or something you like, ask yourself how it's done, try and figure it out and then if you don't quite understand it - Google it. Try and mimic it and create something similar for yourself - you will soon pick things up.
There is no tutorials for creativity as here u r speaking abt that. You just do what u want to create. The first time you may not be satisfied, then recreate that in some other way. keep doing. you can achieve the best.
lot of devs are better at programming than design. Â But, practice makes perfect and I would say just keep trying to be creative and possibly test out some things too to see how they perform. Â landing pages maybe?