hi this is jagath, i have joined as an web desginer before 6 months. Still im working in converting layouts into HTML and tableless degins. how can i improve my layout design skills and creativity? could someone give me links to refer a beginner designs
what i used to do is I visited a lot of free web template website and target one nice template. start analysis about the design and try to modify that existing web template according to my view. and after finishing my template i compared my stuff with others. this is how i am increasing my web designing skills. i recommend you to think a bit about every website you visit and analysis why designer use that sort of color combination and design... and so on so on..... Hope my strategy will help u a bit.
search for tutorials using Adobe Dreamweaver (coding) and go to good-tutorials.com for photoshop tutorials to get better. also use deviantart.com for inspiration for graphics and websites
The best thing you can do is become a guru with what programs you use (Photoshop for example). By doing so, you'll not only have more ideas, but you'll be able to unleash those ideas rather than just wondering how someone did that. Perhaps you can pick up a book like "The Design of Sites" to learn a little bit about visual communication and elements of good sites. From there, just look around for inspiration. And to get even better, keep exploring, learning and practicing. Good luck.
Reading tutorials, and LOTS of them! They will give you great information and new skills. I made a blog post with a massive list of web design tutorials: http://serenedestiny.com/blog/development/the-massive-list-of-web-design-and-development-tutorials/ I hope it helps
here's another good tutorials to make you a very very good designer tutorialized (you need to google it thou) I've been using that tutorial site also. There's a lot of them there. hope this helps you out.
Start with basic, all basic... Don't try to jump ahead... If you're learning photoshop, don't go for high level tutorial, but start from the tutorial that teach the the usage of basic tools, and if you're learning CSS, find out what you must do before code CSS because I've just done the mistake. I've covered some of the topics, from my own perspective in my blog. I'll not post the link and you can find many tutorial out there... Good Luck...