How can I make website design?

Hi there guys,
I'm trying to learn anything I can about website designing. I need some help with the basis. What do I need to desgn a website? ... And other basics too.
If anyone can help me I would appriciate it a lot.
P.S. I really need to learn more about web designing...

 

Are you wanting to do a whole website from scratch (one that is fully functional?) Or are you just wanting to do the graphics side of it?

There is a difference between design and development so I will assume you knew the difference.

I think it starts with Photoshop. I know my first designed website I picked a website that I liked and tried to duplicate the style. I learned a lot by asking people for tutorials on how to do the things I didn't know how to do.

 

I just use templates and edit them easyer. I'm still learning how to code from a design i make.

 

I mean both. Can you help me with any tutorial? Or short guides...

 

I take it you're a beginner? A good graphics editor such as Photoshop or GIMP is the start of any good design. You'll also need a program to edit your code. Try to get one with at least basic functionality such as syntax highlighting and autoindentation. You won't need a web server or a web hotel in the beginning seeing as you can run your HTML files directly by simply opening them in a browser.

My recommendation is that you start learning HTML and CSS at w3schools.com while reading tutorials and articles for beginners. Make sure you learn something about web standards, seeing as a lot of the countless online tutorials are made by amateurs whose knowledge and techniques can be very out of date.

After you feel relatively confident with your HTML and CSS skills you can start looking at a server-side scripting language such as perl, python, php etc. Good luck!

 

Thank You for advices. I'll check that site that you write. Hope to learn smth.

Thanx again

 

Guys please whoever reads this write smth te help me.
I want to learn smth but I dont know how so help me with anything you can...

 

Templates would be much easier, but making it yourself is better because you gain experience and knowledge.
try www.how to make websites .com

 

why dont used in a free template?

 

Since you're targeting both the design and development aspects, you'll need to learn html, javascript and atleast one server-side programming language alongwith photoshop.

 

What exactly is it you're having a hard time and need help with?

 

To get a good background knowledge, you could do a lot worse than reading:
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/

There's also a slowly growing Web Design department in the Wikiversity at:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Web_Design/
The design principles section has a good few useful links.

I also second whoever said w3schools, although it's not the be all and end all for web design, it's a good start.

 

I'd avoid W3schools like the plague. Instead, get a good book that will teach you how to build a Web site the right way such as Build Your Own We Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS by Ian Lloyd. You might also want to pick up a copy of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird and The Photoshop Anthology by Corrie Haffly. The last book proved to be SO popular that they literally sold out, but still offer it as a PDF file (that's how I got my copy).

And for those who think that W3Schools makes a great reference, I gladly point you to http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/ (IIRC, Ian Lloyd is working on the HTML reference while James Edwards is working on the JavaScript reference). (The CSS reference is now available in print as well at www.sitepoint.com/books/cssref1 if you're interested.)

 

They're very expensive books. When I become webmaster I'll buy them...

 

For the graphics side, I would suggest Photoshop or Illustrator. I personally use both. I suppose you can use GIMP its free and all.

For coding wise: I personally code all my websites and such by hand, I use to use dream weaver (Pretty simple to use) and you can also use Microsoft Frontpage.

If you want tutorials the only place I can think of to suggest is good-tutorials and find webpage design tutorials and they'll teach you step by step to make good web site templates. Coding wise, I can't really think of anywhere that has good tutorials. Just go to a book store and look in the web development section. May want to learn mysql, php, xhtml, css.

 

I more interested about coding for now. Later about graphics. I want to learn Html and php, mysql etc.

 

So go to your local public library and see if they have them. Besides, they're not "that" expensive - their cost is actually on par with the other recent books that cover the languages and techniques used.

 

get someone to do it for you lol

 

He won't learn anything that way, which is what he wants to do. So your post is rather counter-productive as far as the thread starter's objectives are concerned.

 

I'll try to find them. Are you sure they are good and will really help me a lot?
I'll buy them that's why I'm asking...