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04-15-2006, 03:10 PM
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Webdesign Newbie
Hi all,
Once thing I have never really gotten into in my years in the computer world is webdesign. Since I will have a little bit more time this summer, I decided that would want to teach myself webdesign and work on a couple personal homepages. Does anyone have some suggestions for some good online guides or books I could follow to get started? I'd also be interested in learning about move advanced topics such as xml, php, css, rss and so on and possibly try to implement some of these into my site. Also, what do most of you guys use to design websites? Dreamweaver or Frontpage? How about Photoshop? Thanks in advance for your help. |
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04-15-2006, 03:41 PM
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As always in web design the place to start before you do anything like PHP is HTML. Without HTML, you cannot code in other langauges as they all rely on HTML in some way. A good book series I would recommend is the In Easy Steps series. Also, a good web resource is www.w3schools.com . When learning HTML, its usually best to start with a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver. The best one that I have tried is Dreamweaver, although people have their different opinions. I actually rarely use those sort of editors now, as I code by hand now. After HTML, I would start to learn CSS so you can keep with web standards. After you have learned a sufficient amount of the two, if you want to create more advanced web pages, I would start to learn PHP. Its an easy language to learn and took me about a few months before I had a decent amount of knowledge with PHP.
Good luck with web design! |
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04-15-2006, 09:59 PM
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I saw this on digg.com the other day: http://www.bravenet.com/resourcecenter/tutorials/html/
Looks to be a fairly good walkthrough guide on html & css basics.
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04-16-2006, 05:36 PM
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a good source is also htmlgoodies.com
A program I use to code pages and is free is 1st page at evrsoft.com |
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04-16-2006, 05:50 PM
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Best books I have ever found are the ones in the Visual QuickStart Guide series. They are fairly cheap and teach you a lot. I have learned everything from them.
HTML: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032...Fencoding=UTF8 PHP: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032...Fencoding=UTF8 DHTML/CSS: 3rd ed. - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032...lance&n=283155 2nd ed - (I like this one more) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020...lance&n=283155 Those should get you started. |
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04-16-2006, 07:36 PM
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I came across this CSS cheat sheet today: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/css/css-cheat-sheet/
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04-27-2006, 04:25 PM
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05-03-2006, 09:13 PM
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Photoshop
You can use HTML or CSS for webdesign and layouts. If you want to do it the easy wasy use Dreamweaver or Frontpage. For a good designing tool use Photoshop 7.0. I use this and I would say it is a nice program.
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05-12-2006, 12:08 PM
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05-12-2006, 12:32 PM
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Another good way to learn is to download a website template and as you are learning, change the code by hand to get exactly what you want done. Also the same goes for say php, javascript, etc. A good place to start is www.oswd.org - for website templates and www.hotscripts.com - for php and others
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