Web Designing

G0TH1K4

G0TH1K4

G0TH1K4

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Ive recently took an interest in web designing, i was wondering how I could learn and what programmes i must use?
Thanks in advance....
 
CSS/xHTML, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, PHP... all useful skills to have. You should probably try all and see what you're good at. It might turn out you're a great coder but not so good at design, or it might be the opposite.
 
Web design

The whole concept of web designing is new just thought id give it a try seen as im really enjoy designing, and ill buy these programmes and play about with them and see if i should take it any further thank you for the help :)
 
Just out of interest, how old are you? Photoshop, Illustrator, etc... may be a bit out of your reach if you're 14.


...unless you've got rich parents.
 
As a web designer myself who tends to do the visual side, learning photoshop or a decent raster graphics editor is very useful.
 
daz said:
CSS/xHTML, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, PHP... all useful skills to have. You should probably try all and see what you're good at. It might turn out you're a great coder but not so good at design, or it might be the opposite.
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What he said. Although I personally wouldn't use Dreamweaver. I'm much more comfortable coding by hand using Notepad++. Each to his own of course. :) Did a final year project at Uni and initially wanted to code it using Notepad++ but I had to 'evaluate' Dreamweaver so I could justify not using it. Just didn't feel comfortable with the extra/useless code it added making the code bloated and that I could actually get what I wanted more easily when I hand-coded than trying to force Dreamweaver to play ball. :p

G0TH1K4 said:
The whole concept of web designing is new just thought id give it a try seen as im really enjoy designing, and ill buy these programmes and play about with them and see if i should take it any further thank you for the help :)
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If you go into the HGP forum and search you'll find plenty of threads for XHTML/CSS sites and so on. :)

I'm not too bad with XHTML/CSS, any problems and I can google or ask on here but Photoshop/Fireworks/Illustrator/Flash/PHP are all things I could learn for the fun of it and perhaps should learn to increase me employment chances. :)
 
Longbow said:
Some kind of notepad program, and Photoshop.

I hate coding in programs like Dreamweaver.
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It's fine so long as you don't use "Design View" for anything more than a vague idea of how it might be turning out. IDEs like PhpED are far superior, though. You'll write an application faster in PhpED than you will in Notepad++.
 
Others have probably said this already but I would recommend learning PHP/HTML as a starter. Once you got them down get using CCS and Javascript (note javascript is not the same as Java, completely different Coding languages!!)

If you want to start I would recommend downloading Mysql. Your also need to install PHP on your PC and download/setup a Apache server so you can test your work locally.

For basic sites (depending what your going for) your need some kind of photo editing software (photoshop or something similiar) and get a IDE. I use dreamweaver but you can get programs such as php designer for free.

Hope this helps
 
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