I have a little bit of experience with css and php. I also took a java class in highschool. That's it as far as my programming experience goes. I'm very interested in learning more about how to create professional websites. Where should I start?
Read everything you can find on the net. Thier are some good forums and blogs on design so you have plenty to read and learn from
Read Read Read! Check out amazon and buy some basic web design books. Or visit sitepoint.com and check out their books. Bes of luck, Mike
HTML is what you need to learn first. Using your browser, you can view the source of any web page to see how other people have done it. You can then save it and make a few changes to see what happens. The w3schools website is a pretty good resource, but the web has many tutorials
I'd love a good youtube channel to learn the very basics from. I can watch & eat at the same time. Any recommendations?
You have just enough experience to start coding Of course more reading is a plus. But the better way is to join some open source project and to help in a real world life stuff. Even if you don't start right away you will know what to read.
Web Design it's very easy stuff to learn, just you need to do more and more practice over it, you need to think creative,,, than and than you can become a good designer. Dreamweaver is the good software which allows you to make web page, and you will learn easily through it, and if you need help than open help file for the same. Just learn flash, adobe photoshop, corel draw. Best of luck with your designing career.
I handle about Web design.First I start to learn HTML and CSS. With these i am able to create a simple websites and then I learn Photoshop to draw professionals templates. I believe that is best way for web designer.
I recently started to learn the same things. HTML and CSS first. I then read around the internet on SEO. A combination of all three things is needed.
Just make your own website and depending on how good its, you'll get more visitors and then your bound to be noticed by someone who likes it and will ask you to make one for them. Also there might be some sites out there where you can make your own design and ask people to pay if they want to use it.
Web design and web programming are two different things. Assuming you meant web programming start at w3schools with html. Then after you have that down continue working with css and then you can branch out from there. I would suggest javascript next because you can do some very cool stuff with javascript once you learn it.
IMHO getting involved in real-life projects is very important. If you read pure theory without any context, your brain often doesn't pay very much attention to it. However when you try to solve a problem, get puzzled, search for ways to solve the problem and then finally find texts that discuss how to solve this problem, it's a very different thing. So books, manuals and courses are a great source of knowledge but in my opinion it's also crucial to have practice. Open Source was suggested above and it's a good one I think. Also I can recommend freelance sites, register at some of them and try bidding on the most easy projects.
Another advice is to visit w3schools.com and search for what you need. Start learning HTML coding, then PHP, ASP and so on. -clonepal
Yeah, w3schools is great to start with programming from beginning. You can also find very useful tips at Smashing Magazine's site (from design to code).