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[Hera]

When you first start learn web design what was about?

 

[Sheebah7]

Web design is an interesting career. I would say research the career first, learn all you can about the industry. There are YouTube videos on the subject that are more than useful. If you research this field I am sure you will find quite a few colleges and universities offering web design or similar programs.

 

[moneyman]

Start here, you'll be glad you did. :)

http://www.w3schools.com/html

Become intimately acquainted with Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe InDesign.

I still prefer to use Adobe (Macromedia!) Fireworks as an alternative to Photoshop, Illustrator, or Indesign. The most recent development release for it was 2013, and at this time Adobe has stopped supporting it. You can still get plug-ins for it and use it as much as ever before, and it does most if not all of what two or three of the above packages can for you. Combine it with Dreamweaver, and you have a strong contender.

While you're on the w3schools site, be sure to pay attention to Javascript and pick it up, too. You'll be using it later, especially since HTML5 is the new wave.

http://php.org is going to be very valuable to you, too. If you plan on doing web programming, you're likely going to find yourself using php, python, or javascript for web projects.

I started with html by hand back in 1996, then started to use Microsoft Frontpage in 1997, but switched and stayed with Dreamweaver since 1998 on out. There are other editors and you can still do things by hand, but you'll find that these packages are some of the easiest and most rewarding ways to get started.

 

[Money Online]

Well if you want to become a webdesigner then you must learn good designing skills and you must be able to produce unique logos, web elements, business cards and many more. More importantly good web pages which should be responsive.

First start with logos, web elements, brochures, business cards and side by side learn html, css, js and jquery.

 

[pwarbi]

While I've never tried web design myself, so I'm not going to say what's the best place to start, what I will say though is don't pay for any so called online courses, at least not right away until you've at least checked the job out via internet searches.

A while ago there was a lot of money to be made in web design but these days I'm not too sure, so don't be paying for a course that promises you'll be rich, because I think when it comes to web design, those days might be over.

 

[SirJoe]

What do you want to do with what you learn, is it for yourself or is it to apply for a job?
If it's to apply for a job I think you should think of doing a course that will teach you, other wise you won't have anything that will show that you have this knowledge.
On the other hand if it's just to improve your abilities you will find loads of torrents with free courses.

 

[hg088]

Well if you have a little bit of knowledge (not much really) already I'd recommend udacity course cs253. It focuses mostly on the back-end stuff but it really helps you understand how the web works.

 

[PenguinManiac]

If you want to get started, then I heavily recommend Codecademy, they have a lot of great courses for web design; otherwise, if you already have basic knowledge of HTML and CSS (you'll also need JS and PHP, but you can learn them on the go), you should just start practising. Think of something you would like to do, maybe a particular layout (make a sketch on Photoshop, if you need), and try to code it. Look up online when you get stuck on something. Integrate new elements you like as you come up with them. That's what I did, anyway, and I can say it helped a lot.
Also, if you see something you particularly like on a website, try to figure out how they did it. Have a look at the source code, get the basics down and try to replicate it as best as you can, and don't give up. Practice makes perfect.

 

[jrhey]

if you want this field, then you must learn the basic of it, html, css and php. then when you already have knowledge about it. you can try javascript bootstrap and other tool that you need for creating website.

 

[Lovely]

To be a good web designer i think you just need to get to YouTube there are good tutorials there or you get to code academy to learn everything about web designing,editing Photoshop and the rest and I'm sure you will gain massively from your acquired skill.

 

[anyona54]

The best to learn from are books. You could download some PDFs on HTML and CSS. The most inclusive is from Microsoft, check their website.

 

[awanama]

If you are more convenient with drop-and-drag technique, you will like Dreamweaver. But if you want to make more professional website, go start learning CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. One of the good resource to learn is w3schools

 

[awanama]

Web design is an interesting career. I would suggest to checkout skillshare and udemy websites. Also in youtube, there are many video tutorials on web designing.

Udemy is a good resource for learning! I agree with it. Just adding, you can also learn from Tutsplus, a good resource for learning both the design and the code

 

[Paigegirl]

YouTube is a food place to start. You can get tons of free videos there for beginners that will take you from the start to finish.

You can also try Lynda.com, although the videos here are paid. However, they are detailed and people who have used them swear by them.

 

[Prajju2124]

Hey
Web design is a beautiful thing. I am glad you chose that.
Initially you need to learn html which is the basic stuff for all the static websites out there.
You can get all the understanding in html in here
https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp.

After acquiring the basic knowledge, you need to style your html elements. Learn to style elements using css. You can learn all the basic css stuff over here
https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Client side animations and validations are a must these days for station websites to look good.
To do there you need JavaScript and jQuery
There is no proper reference for javascript. But you can learn the basics from here
https://codecademy.com

By the way, if you are interested in building dynamic web applications, you need to learn server side programming language(even JavaScript is a server side programming language).

But learning PHP and database like MySQL is very much helpful as my of the web hosting providers support them these days.

These were some of my suggestions based on some of the experience that I had.
Hope this helped you.
Thanks

 

[Five To Eight]

I would pay attention to learning accessibility - making it easy for users to use your site with the use of assistive technology like screen readers. I'm mostly self taught and have been learning for over 17 years. I didn't come across one resource that mentioned accessibility in that time, but it's now becoming more important, especially with new EU regulations.

 

[Tmatibhiri]

Web designing is actually an interesting career to pursue if you are really passionate about it. For me I started using Codecademy.com and learned all the basics from HTML, CSS and JavaScript then I watched some video tutorials on how to design a fully responsive website from scratch at Udemy.com. I found the website to be really useful in providing all the necessary tools for web designing. You can also try other sites like wix.com which allows you to create a fully responsive website with already coded customized elements thus saving you on a lot of coding. But I advice learning the basics first then try the website when you have got all the jargon of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

 

[Brain]

The three outstanding placed you can learn web designing and if you are determined can become an expert are skillshshare, udemy and Treehouse. You can get updated courses all the time from these sites.

 

[NoLimits15]

There's a lot of demand for web design, especially in the freelancing sector. You can try sites like Khan Academy, Udemy and Coursera to help you get started.

 

[hibi3454]

Web design is an interesting career. I would say research the career first, learn all you can about the industry. There are YouTube videos on the subject that are more than useful. If you research this field I am sure you will find quite a few colleges and universities offering web design or similar programs.

Thanks for this information, I too am a bit interested in web designing, so I might as well research the different fields of web designing and yes I will be looking at those youtube videos... thanks!