[Free] Become a professional website designer & Script coder.

[greenovni]

Hello all

W3Schools is the largest website developer site on the net and has everything a person could want about learning and becoming certified on website design / scrip building.

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Best thing - it's free!

[Ron Killian]

Great resource, thanks for posting

No offense but it takes more than that to be a professional, anybody can just slap some open source code together and call themseleves a coder and anybody can grab up a crappy html editor and proclaim that they are a designer. Fact is that does not make you a professional coder or designer.

Being a professional means knowing how to make things work from scratch, build it 100% from the ground up, having creativity, master the art of user friendlyness, knowing how to talk to clients, being respectful and helpful even to those that are rude to you and etc...

I understand your post and you are trying to be helpful but your title is very misleading when it says "Become a professional" This title reminds me very much of those many junk ebooks, marketing websites, wso's, and etc that say "Make a Million Dollars in a Week" ....

James

[davemiz]

lol if you think just taking those courses makes you a designer, good luck. lol

Originally Posted by davemiz

lol if you think just taking those courses makes you a designer, good luck. lol

My point exactly ....

James

[Bill Farnham]

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

No offense but it takes more than that to be a professional...

Being a professional means knowing how to make things work from scratch, build it 100% from the ground up, having creativity, master the art of user friendlyness, knowing how to talk to clients...

I had to chuckle to myself when I read this because it is so true.

Being a professional also means having a track record of producing profits for your clients. I know this because I are one

Being a product designer for many years before retiring from the business I was fortunate enough to create products that sold in the millions of units with many millions of dollars of profits for the companies that used my designs.

I'm not saying that to brag, only as a point of reference. Being a professional designer does indeed require you to be well rounded in the field and also means you have an understanding of what folks will pay money for. If you can't produce a profit for your clients, you can't call yourself a professional. You're just a hobbyist or a student. Nothing wrong with being either of those, but the 'P' in Professional stands for Profit.

KJ

Hey KillerJoe,
Well honestly I thought twice before I posted but I just could not let that TITLE of this thread stand like that. Much like you I have been here for years and even before I was online I was in management and I did the sales designs for some of the grocery stores (you know the weekly sales paper that you get in the mail) .

This is NOT something you just learn from some website or ebook....

James

[greenovni]

Guys, the website is geared towards newbies with a "from the bottom" approach. The headline... I have no clue where it came from so early in the morning

[AndyBlackSEO]

Particularely with design, I thinks that's a 'talent' you are born with and is embedded in you naturally. Then to be a good designer is just a case of those naturally talented learning how to use the tools in order to design.

I used to re-draw complex logos etc for my offline business before I went full time into IM and creating apps. Although I could use the tools, it didn't mean I was a great designer. Even with websites, creating really nice designs is not my strong point. I can though create functional sites and do have very good ideas. So an ideas man, yes! A natural designer, no!

I think that applies with a lot of things. Acting, painting, people skills. The talent will either be there or it won't. Learning the skills is just a means to enhance and action the talent you are born with.

[calvint]

thanks for posting that seems like a great place if i get stuck on something like sql data bases and other tricky things

[JohnMcCabe]

James, KillerJoe, no disrespect intended, but there is another definition of "professional"...

It simply means one who gets paid to practice a skill or perform a process. With some diligence, many could learn the skills to provide useful services for money.

Since golf is such a common metaphor, I'll use it for an example. Both Tiger Woods and the pro down at the local country club are considered "professionals" - they both get paid to golf. Are they in the same league? Hardly.

There are reasonably competent copywriters out there who, while not in the same league as a Makepeace, Carlton, Bencivenga, etc., can put together a promotion that makes a profit.

I believe the same thing can be said about web design and coding.

Sometimes bringing highly talented and experienced master craftsmen to a task is overkill; it's like hunting bunnies with a bazooka...

[ny_mariposa]

w3schools is a good reference with a bottom-up approach. Everyone has to start somewhere, and it is a good place to get your feet wet. Professional comes later.

Personally, I prefer the Head First series of books for learning a new skill. They are easy to follow as well as entertaining. But what I learned in those books was only a start. It was through practice and further research beyond those books that got me where I am today. And I have much to learn yet!

I don't think there's any one resource by itself that will teach a person all he needs to know... except maybe a university. Even then there's still more to learn.

[bthurman]

Thanks for the link.

Obviously it takes more than just working through this site to become a "sought after" designer this is a great place for newbies to explore some of the things available. Besides that it's fun to work through some examples and get some sense of accomplishment.


Bob