I Need Your Help, Serious question...

Hey DP
Thanks for looking

Here is my problem,
I am tired of paying people my hard earned money for web design/coding that does not mount up to their portfolios.

SO

I have decided to go at it myself...

What do I need? Books, online resources, schooling, natural talent, software, hardware, etc??

Here is what I have so far:
1 MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo w/ 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM w/ 250GB HD
1 MacMini PowerPC 1.8GHz 1.0GB RAM w/ 80GB HD
2 20' Flat Screen Monitors
2 BlueTooth mice & keyboards
1 Office
1 Large Desk
Prior Business Experience in Finances/Insurance/Forex/Stocks/Inter.Business
1 Mind full of ideas
100% Determination
100% Open Mind

Shoot me some suggestions, anything helps please!!
Sincerely,
Dan

 

Your going to need adobe photoshop for web design, dreamweaver for coding and you could probably download some e-books to guide you throughout the process. Theres tons of tutorials on web design as well so research a little bit and youre good.

 

You need to be more specific on the coding side, will you need CSS, XHTML or Ruby on Rails and PHP etc. I can tell you some good books if its CSS and XHTML.

 

if you have a bittorrent client you can download thousands of good ebooks, and you should probably look for ones regarding XHTML, CSS and PHP & MySQL; if you can learn those languages well then I'm sure you can make yourself a great site.

 

Apart from the sources as listed out by our friends above, dp too is full of resources. Select the topic you want to master and find the appropriate section and read the useful posts. If you have any doubt, post it in the concerned forum. You will get suitable reply. What is required : Patience to go through the threads and cleverness to choose the appropriate one. Good luck

 

Thanks to all for the advice, which is a good bit torrent place to join? Any good books on the things mentioned above?
Thanks again
Dan

 

Just start by reading a few eBooks and experiment. Choose what language you want to learn and research.

 

after reading some ebooks. try to apply everything you've learn.
practice. practice. practice.

 

Good luck but in my opi nion nobody should try to do evrything by himself

 

I agree in delegation, but if my standards are not being up held then I have to do something about it.

I guess the quote, In life you need a good banker, a good accountant, a good lawyer, and a good friend... should include a good webmaster! No joke.

Thanks