What Is The Best Way To Learn Web Design/ Blog Design?
I am an artist. I graduated from college with my BFA about 5 years ago. I am currently interested in learning how to design web sites/ blogs. Where can I find good and trustworthy material to learn about these types of designs? Any websites or books would be helpful. Thanks.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 am
Well, first you need to know what to look for. As the site gets bigger and better, you will have to know more of these:
HTML
XHTML
CSS
JavaScript
Ajax
PHP or Perl or Python or Ruby or ASP or ASP.NET or JSP or Coldfusion
SQL with MySQL or Oracle or SQL Server or some other DBMS
Adobe Flash/Flex/Actionscript
XML/XML languages
Then, you need to know what software to use. I can help you find their sites if you need, but here’s a list of their names: NetBeans IDE, HTML-Kit, Eclipse IDE, OpenOffiice.org, FileZilla, Paint.NET, Inkscape, Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer.
Then, you need to know where to learn it. For that, check out these sites:http://www.w3schools.com/http://www.ebooks-space.com/http://www.scribd.com/http://www.ncsacademy.com/default.cfm?re…
Feel free to email me if you have any questions. Good luck!
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 am
As an extension of the other guy, It’s okay to learn ajax, but not quite important. Because jQuery is a new language extended off of javascript, you’d want to learn that as well.
AJAX is when you execute something on a server without have the page refresh (Like submitting a form that shows “submitted” when you enter the form, instead of having to reload to a whole different page).
In AJAX, you’d have to have like 10-20 lines just to do that, in jQ, just 5-6.
ie
$.ajax( -the submitted data- ); and that would be all.
You can learn jQuery at http://www.jquery.com who’d have guess heh.
But yes, if you are a beginner, start at w3schools.
If you get serious about web design, use Microsoft Frontpage (free), or Adobe DreamWeaver (Free… if torrented).
On your artistic side for website graphics, use Adobe Photoshop (again, not free. Unless… =] )
I also suggest Learning PHP (skipping perl until late), and MySQL, there’s a tutorial on w3schools for learning sQL as well.
As for making your website browser compatible, focus on FireFox, Internet Explorer and Safari and you should be good. Don’t mind about Chrome, since Google Chrome uses the same website parser as Firefox.
Good Luck.
PS -> If you find this to be mumbo-jumbo talk, email me and i’ll make it clearer for you =D
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 am
The best way of learning web design is by actually doing rather than study. You will learn faster because people who browse your site will provide you with feedback