Web Design Course

mr tommo

mr tommo

mr tommo

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The bottom line is . . . I want to create and design websites.

I have zero knowledge in the area.
Im good with adobe photoshop but not sure how relevant this is.

Is there any courses available, even if its a high cost, where I can go for a week or two and learn as much as possible?

Thanks, Tom
 
With zero knowledge i would suggest choosing a web design software package such as macromedia dreamweaver or microsoft frontpage. I recommend dreamweaver. Then look for online dreamweaver tutorials to help you. I bet there are loads of beginner tutorials for you to start. Also its nice to know about HTML so you can see what dreameaver is doing when you add a table, images, or edit text and colours for example.

Adobe photoshop will help you manipulate or create images that you may wish to include in your website. Photoshop is a very powerful piece of software.

Then once you are comfortable with the basics then spice your websites up a little with xhtml, java script, php etc

If you prefer to do a course then i would suggest looking at your local college for web design courses or try the open university.

Hope this helps.
 
www.w3schools.com

Personally i would start with some HTML tutorials first (shown above) then look at dreamweaver and dreamweaver tutorials. A bit of HTML knowledge will be valueable for any web designer, new or experienced.
 
tonyyeb said:
www.w3schools.com

Personally i would start with some HTML tutorials first (shown above) then look at dreamweaver and dreamweaver tutorials. A bit of HTML knowledge will be valueable for any web designer, new or experienced.
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Agreed. It depends whether your goal is to just get a few pages up in the shortest time possible or actually understand what you're doing. IMO the later is better; start with a solid foundation of the basics (i.e. HTML code) and work your way through CSS and then onto dynamic content etc.

There is no need to pay for a course if you go down this route. HTML is easy enough to be self-taught, you shouldn't even need a book because there are a huge number of free quality tutorials online (see the tutorials sticky). Avoid WYSIWYG packages such as Dreamweaver until you've got the basics down (they're a fantastic tool but distracting for beginners), a decent free text editor is all you'll need (i.e. not Notepad.exe - something that does syntax highlighting at the very least, e.g. notepad++/crimson editor/textpad/etc).


This question ("html/programming: Where do I begin?") comes up time and again in this forum so maybe its about time we put together a sticky? I'd be willing to help out with this.
 
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