What's a good way to learn web design?

I'm looking to learn gain a more complete understanding with web design. I've read through w3schools.com html guide, but it's very superficial. Can anyone suggest a good book?

I have the ebook "The complete reference HTML and CSS" it looks good might be what I'm looking for, but I would like suggestions.

 

Most books you will only use for reference, look in your local paper or community magazine for free or cheap classes in intro web design. It's little money for some base/ hands-on knowledge. I know around here it's $125 for a beginner's web design class.

I'm assuming you've probably looked at purchasing the 'for dummies' books. I remember using a few for other topics that actually *cough* helped.

 

Go hands on. You won't understand anything until you actually do things, see how it turns out, see your mistakes, fix them, and try again. All you need is notepad for it also

 

Listen to me, go to Lynda.com .. There you will become a pro believe me! The courses there are extremely valuable!

 

Any books by o'reilly will be beneficial to your cause. Also, messing around with code on your own and reviewing other code will help. Good luck.

 

Best way to learn is to try and understand your mistakes.

 

Since this thread pretty much answers questions I've had in mind, I'll add a question too.

What are recommended program(s) to use for beginner/intermediate web design?

 

To be honest, most of the things I learned about the internet, coding etc. were all from just my interest. I used to never cared about this stuff, only the internet but one point in my life I realized this wasn't too bad and can actually be interesting to do. I just went into it and started playing around mostly, bits by bits. First place was with forum coding. I made my first forum with invisionfree and started to understand how a site really works. I went professional and bought an IPB board. I then moved onto a website and the same thing, just understanding the code. Sure I also did looks through guides provided and also support from other members with more experience with it.

So overall most is just your way of around it.
You can also take classes at school if you want. In high school I actually had no choice but to take one year of a computer class so I choice webmastering. I actually liked it and even went to a second year. You can learn alot from some who has experience with this.

Freewebs is the best for beginners which basically makes the website for you. You can choose premade layouts, coding etc. you want and see how everything works out. This is only for those that just want a basic website and thats it.

If you want to do it freely then I would use Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver is maybe the best program that I learned to use to make pages and stuff. This, you can freely add code and images etc to it. It does have most of the basic stuff already implented and you can make web pages write from there. You can also look up guides online to help you take it to the next step.

 

I learned by watching video tutorials. You can easily find them by googling or searching on youtube.

 

Hi,
The best way in my point of view is to join a Training Centre. Most easiest way of web designing is to design website in ASP.NET because it needs very less coding and lots of controls are built-in.
ASP.NET web application can be designed by using Visual Studio.
There are following ways of creating web application using vs .net.
1. We can create it as HTTP,so that the application can be saved as virtual directory within IIS server.
2. We can create and store it as file system within any logical drive.
3. Two pages are created by default
• Default.aspx
• Web.config
Web.config is a secured file which cannot be accessed in browsers.
Web.config file is mainly required to give some application settings.
ASP.net web pages are mainly designed by using various web controls.
ASP.NET Web Controls:-
&#8226; Basic Controls (e.g.<asp:Button1>,<asp:Label1>.etc)
&#8226; HTML Controls (e.g.<input label1>)
&#8226; Data Controls
&#8226; Rich Controls
&#8226; Ajax Controls
&#8226; Login Controls
&#8226; Validation Controls
Asp.Net controls are known as POSTBACK Controls
POSTBACK:-Every time page is displayed, on click it sends back the request again back to the server.
Button,Textbox,Calender are also some of the default post back true controls.
In Asp.net whenever the postback from any asp.net control,by default the page_load() is executed.
e.g.
public partial class_Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
Protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Write(DateTime.Now.ToString());
}
}

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I would say if you really want to learn web design.

• - Search google for "cool web designs", "top web designs"
• - Use google chrome's Developer tools to look at html structure, css
  Chrome->View->Developer tools or right click on website inspect element
• - watch tutorials on youtube about design, css, php, html, jquery, javascript
• - use and develop with a good app, like Coda(mac)
• CSS3 - http://www.css3.info/

 

wtp, I don't know if you remember me but I helped you out with a few java assignments a while back.

In any case, what I would recommend you do is: Think of where you want to be, in terms of the technologies you want to know and the quality of the work you want to be producing.

Now, translate this into a project - when I went about doing this I actually decided to do a Real Estate website with online auctions.

This will do a number of things:

• Put some form of perspective on the work you are doing. Nothing worse is than tediously doing work with no apparent goal.
• Give you an opportunity to work with a multitude of technologies - you could use PHP for the sign up process, Java Applet for a chat client, Ruby on Rails for a blog, javaFX for a gallery of images, J2EE for the database management etc.
• You have a finished product at the end, you could use this in a portfolio to employers to show the entirety of your skill set.
• It really is a lot of fun, if you create an ENTIRE website in just HTML, you haven't actually learned that much HTML you've just been reapplying previous ideas.

Now, of course if you have no ground to start at this can seem overwhelming. But the entire idea is to split it up into modules that you can do. Start out by making a homepage in HTML, then learn how to bring PHP into it by having a simple login and continue on slowly.

Maybe I'm just a bit ambitious for you, but I really do feel that having a larger project in mind can give you a nudge in the right direction.

Good luck!

 

Honestly... Use this site:

HTMLisEasy.Com

Go from Basic, Table, Form, Frames Tutors via Notepad html documents. It really helps you. basic tutor is normal shit like fonts and shit, tables are tables, forms are like typing boxes check boxes that stuff, frames are making different links in your site like a directory (My Favorite part). GL