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| Fatman War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Best way would be to get a book on web designing or searching for some online tutorials. If you're really new to web designing, finding a class to attend would be a good way to start but if you learn well from books, like me, go to a local bokstore and find a good book.
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Niagara Region, Canada
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start here: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials |
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Canada
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if you really want to learn from experts, try going to these two sites: Grafpedia - Premium tutorials for beginners to advanced users of Adobe Photoshop. Psdtuts+ | Adobe Photoshop tutorials, from beginner to advanced. awesome resource for experienced or new designers alike. I am a member of both and do not regret the purchase. Grafpedia especially, their support is 200% above the competition. Razvan of Grafpedia is quick to respond support queries and technical issues. I have not had any issues with tutsplus.com yet so cannot comment on their support desk, but they have a huge library of tutorials and plus member extras to learn from that spans about 6 or 7 sites in total. Even experienced designers can learn something new from these guys. |
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Oh so if I want to be an astronaut I should go to a NASA type website."I want to know astronauting, kindly advise?" In the age of Google and the Internet this question proves your a lazy idiot.
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You looking to know only web designing or also development ?
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| Int Marketing Expert War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Planet ZILE
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You can start from using dreamweaver, read some ebooks, or just browsing on warrior forum and learn a lot. There's also some free software that you can use
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webdesign and web development?
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| Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA & Montreal Canada
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Seriously, Karen's suggestion is the way to go IMHO - W3 Schools is a great place to get a foundation in all aspects of web development. I'm a developer, not a designer, so I can't speak for the sites that VisualWebEffects advises but I'm sure they're a good route to go as well. Happy Holidays Bill | |
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I personally use Dreamweaver, i have actually attended a course, (introduction to Dreamweaver) & now have a webite up & running, (a14ebooks.com) & got it to PR3 so far! If i am not sure about something, or want to try something out, i will open an untitled document & play about with that until whatever it is i am trying actually works! I find Dreamweaver very forgiving. |
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| HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Stockton, North east, UK
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dreamweaver is probably the best for a beginner, just google dreamweaver tutorials and your golden. Photoshop on the other hand I would recommend Photoshop Top Secret - Photoshop Training Good luck Dave |
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| Fatman War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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I've used Dreamweaver. But does anyone have any opinion on Microsoft Web Expression 3.0? I am thinking of getting it. Thanks. |
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But in many ways this is also the problem with these products - they allow you to be a "designer" without really knowing what goes on "under the hood". They also tend to write code that is somewhat bloated. I'm not trying to knock these products as they have their place, I've even been known to use Kompozer to whip up a quick "Under Construction" filler for a site while I'm developing it. But if you truly want to be a professional you need to know how to work directly with HTML and PHP code. I'm not advising you to avoid WYSIWYG design products. But I do feel that in the long run you would benefit from starting at W3 schools and learning the fundamentals of XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. After that you can move to a development environment if you wish to, armed with a well-rounded background and a knowledge of how websites really work. Happy Holidays everyone! Bill | |
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Bill, You're right about knowing the code. Knowing the code helps cut down bloated code when working with WYSIWYG editors. I started my web programming in 1995 armed with a text editor on a UNIX shell. I programmed HTML, JavaScript, Java, PhP and MySQL by hand in my younger days. Then I found Dreamweaver. Problem was I lost my copy of Dreamweaver when my hard disk got corrupted recently. And after talking to the Adobe people, it was obvious they were not going to give me my old license back. That is why I was contemplating on Microsoft Expression as an alternative to Dreamweaver. I like DW because it allows me to look at the source code and cut out un-necessary junk from it (DW doesnt create bloated codes but I know Microsoft products tend to do so). So I was wondering if anyone here has had some experience with both DW and MS Expression. Thanks Bill. Regards, Kenneth Quote:
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Ok, Im an ahole I know. Really W3 is a good resource but I find the layout lacking for the newbie thought process. How did I start? I took a html book and changed all the graphics. Wow,I said! This is easy. Again the, "HTML Black Book". I see them on Amazon for like $5! The layout is really good for the noob. You just go chapter by chapter! I mean really dude HTML has got to be the easiest code one could ever learn. Just dig into it. A free, easy one page wysiwig, "WebDwarf". My code editor of choice has always been "Crimson Editor" Now called "Emerald Editor". Again FREE! Paint.Net Again FREE! Are you seeing a pattern here? I only use GNU or Open Source. Why pay for it? All of my pictures are either mine or Commons. I really love government websites for pictures. The tax payers paid for the pictures therefore I feel free to use them. Sue me. Dude just get in there and learn it or be a "designer" your choice.
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Check out tutorials and just practice.
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| The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Sexy Web Design Recommended reading. Buy the ebooks, it is cheaper and faster. |
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I suggest you used Dreamweaver then, you can view it in 2 way codes or design view more user friendly if your a newbie on web designing. Try to find some web designing tutorials also. |
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