How do I learn web design?

[randomo]

I want to develop some of my domains into nice-looking web pages (not the poor-quality ones I make with Microsoft Publisher). I am in awe of the pages I've seen many NP members design.

What is the best way for me to learn how to design & program websites?

I am a very experienced PC user, but I don't know PHP from Perl from JavaScript ...

Should I try to learn from a book / CD? Should I take an online course? What's your best advice?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[AzN]

king web standards http://zeldman.com/

Best references (Web Standards)
http://zeldman.com/dwws/
http://www.cssmastery.com/
http://www.transcendingcss.com/
http://www.csswebdevelopment.com/
http://csszengarden.com/
http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/

Thanks, nice references.

 

[bijaybd]

i can say that you can search in google and search for the tutorials and from there you will find some good links where you can learn web designing esily

 

[eukristian]

i would recommed a book for html , xhtml and css . if you learn these languages you'll be able to create awesome pages and sites . you don't need to know these languages very well , you only need to understand them .
while you're still a beginner , download free templates from oswd.org and openwebdesign.com and edit them in Dreamweaver .

 

[randomo]

Thanks for all the ideas. I will probably start with a book and some online reading, and take it from there.

 

[vatsan]

Thanks for all the ideas. I will probably start with a book and some online reading, and take it from there.

Thats just not how it works. I would rather recommend you to buy one cheap hosting / a free hosting somewhere and go play around with it. Reading books just dont work! If you are stuck with something just google it and someone would have written up about it somewhere.

Good luck!

 

[himiZ]

it's good

CSS : Cascading Style Sheets.
HTML : Hyper text markup language
CMS : Content Management System
cPanel : Web panel manager used by any good host
Fantastico : It installs scripts for you, so you enter a username and password and it automatically installs instead of you manually doing it.

Sites like http://tizag.com , http://w3schools.com , http://php.net , http://csszengarden.com , http://cssmania.com , http://pixel2life.com etc.

If you don't understand a term, then if you just go to google and enter "Definition:<TERM>" you will get a result

If you Don't have access to cPanel and want to use fantastico - PM me and i can set you up with a free hosting account to try everything out

:hehe: