lol..really? How do you expect to make it as a web designer if you don't even know what design skills you have, do you even have any imagination? You will need plenty of that to be a web designer. Professional web designers spend years honing their skills, Probably not the right career choice for you.
#malky can you give some advices to start collect some skills, I think that i have skills like using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I start learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP, but I found this way is very long.
If you want to be a GOOD webdeveloper (not -designer), then you need to start learning HTML and CSS to begin with, then a server-side language, like PHP, and then javascript - always to complement what you already know. Noone good uses Dreamweaver, it's a crutch for people not knowing how to code properly. Photoshop is what you need the least for creating good webdesign - photoshop should only be used for very small tasks, preferably not at all for webdesign, as you'll be better off using a proper vector-based program, like Illustrator. And seriously, if you think learning HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP is "taking too long" then you should not be a webdesigner. There's plenty of bad designers out there already.
If you want to design websites and only be a designer, then start designing sites in Photoshop. Find a site that you think looks terrible and redesign it in Photoshop for practice. It's fun and easy to get web design experience. Build your portfolio and then start applying for jobs on upwork and freelancer.com. If you want to develop websites, you need to learn html, css, javascript, jquery and php. That's just the beginning, you will likely need to learn more frameworks and so on.. but really, don't get intimidated. You can learn this stuff fast if you stick with it and build your own practice projects. It all depends on how dedicated you are to becoming a web designer or developer. I recommend learning HTML and CSS regardless, because most web designers can code their designs into static sites these days and it will help you get more work.
Nothing against Cronik, but I would not waste your time designing websites in photoshop. That may have been the case 10 years ago, but not today. Websites today need to look amazing and have quick load and response times. You need to learn how to style as much as you can using css, and not rely on images. I do believe knowing how to design amazing looking graphics in both Photoshop & Illustrator is a necessary skill, but you shouldn't be using those programs to design websites. No one is going to hire you to redesign a site in Photoshop if you can only show them what their site "could" look like. Learn these languages in this order: HTML CSS PHP - server side scripting JavaScript - client side scripting How long it takes is up to you. Web design is really an acquired skill that takes time because you never stop learning and you are continuously improving your skills with every project. It can be very challenging at times, but it's a lot of fun and very rewarding so keep at it and don't get discouraged. Best of luck.
I completely agree with you. I've worked with many agencies and I am often tasked with coding their designs, as they like to have both designers and coders. I was just saying he can go either route, it's up to him.
Alaa-Eddine I beg to differ with you. First time I ever did a website from scratch, I used html and css for the design, and that part took me much less than 24 hours. That is hardly considered too long. Of course I'd been looking at codes and practicing codes the week before, and already had the 'look' of the website I wanted in mind. It is one of those things that you either love or you don't, and if you love it, it's going to be a breeze and always look like it ended sooner than you wanted it to. PHP would take longer such you want to make sure your code is clean, to avoid future problems. But if you think these (the easiest in my opinion) take too long, then your missing the most important trait of a web designer/developer----> patience. The guys above gave you great advice, So see which one suits you best, it's kind of fun to design and develop websites.
Be careful using the word "Designer" as it is increasingly having a negative connotation attached to it in certain circles; said places being where things like accessibility, speed and functionality take precedence over "gee ain't it neat" pretty pictures that are often nice looking, but make the site harder to use. The problem is that most of the people dicking around drawing pictures in Photoshop do NOT know enough about HTML, CSS, bandwidth, emissive colourspace or accessibility to be designing jack ****. They are graphic artists, and that they have the giant pair of donkey brass to call their halfwit BS "design" can only be chalked up to two possibilities -- ignorance or just plain scam artistry. As others have said in this thread, focus on content, HTML, CSS and accessibility. If you do that, you'll make far better websites than any of the bloated halfwit garbage the artsy fartsy PSD jockeys who call themselves "designers" ever will. It's also a different mindset -- the focus is on the content and delivering that content to users across a wide range of devices instead of just "what it looks like on the screen you are seated in front of right now". MOST of the people sleazing out pretty pictures and waving their pricks in everyone's face to call it "Design" don't think outside that screen, or if they do they waste endless time drawing endless pictures NONE of which are the least bit viable if you actually care about people using the resulting site. (there's a REASON 99.99% of the "templates" at places like themeForest and templateMonster are scam artist bull). With the plethora of screen sizes, resolutions and pixels per inch, much less that not all users or user-agents are even SIGHTED screwing around with the appearance of a site before you have the content in a logical order as if HTML doesn't even exist, then marked up semantically (your HTML saying what things ARE, NOT what they look like!) is completely back-assward. The very notion of screwing with layout and appearance before you have semantic markup of content (or a facsimile of future content) is so completely back-assward, that it's become an industry norm just proves the ignorant halfwits and outright snake oil doctors who give a shit about their clients or the people visiting websites have taken over the industry. Most such "designers" having all the business legitimacy of Amway, Tony Robbins or Charles Ponzi... or if you prefer all the scientific legitimacy of crystal healing and "organic" foods.
Hire yourself out to a web developer as a web designer NEVER makes good websites. Left uncontrolled, "designers" can render any environment totally useless. --- Found on the web ---