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Web Design
Tom Courtney
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Basically, I am slowly venturing into the realm of web page design, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend me some good programs to try out.
Also any advice or knowledge you can send my way would be greatly appreciated.
Also any advice or knowledge you can send my way would be greatly appreciated.
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www.w3schools.com/ is a great resource for tutorials and reference guides.
I learned web design first from playing around with Blogger Templates and then getting my own webpage and playing around with Wordpress templates.
That said, I don't actually know anything about web design.
You can do whatever the hell you like with wordpress, as long as you're hosting it on your own server using the download avalible from wordpress.org . Not sure about the service from wordpress.com, though.
Are you looking to learn to code, or just to do web design and let someone/something else do the code side for you.
If you want to learn to code, do not use dreamweaver. It won't teach you, and it spits out ugly, clunky code. Get notepad++ and some html and css books (or online tutorials) to start with. Once you're good with html and css, you can start looking at teaching yourself javascript and php.
I'm not sure what you should look into if you don't want to code, though.
I am currently in my second semester of Software development, so I do know some java. However the only way I get to apply it is database creation and other boring things.
Doing both is great. You'll need some sort of visual editor to design the graphics, and some sort of code editor. If you're on PC, notepad++ is a great free code editor; or for mac there's hyperedit (not sure if it's free), and coda (which isn't). You can also code in just plain notepad/wordpad; but a code editor is pretty helpful (mostly because it colour codes sections of your code for you, which can make it easy to read).
Depending on how you learn, I'd look into getting some books or finding some online tutorials. Web Design in a Nutshell is a pretty good one, and will cover all the basics. Your school library should have some books you could try.
For some programs to use, I personally just use Notepad for the most part. I've heard good things about Notepad++ though so I suggest that.
For someone dabbling in web development as a hobby, then w3schools is fine. For someone who wants to make it their career, they should stay far, far away. It teaches too many bad habits.
That's the first I've ever heard of that, what in particular do you have beef with?
Same, I've never heard that before. I've only used W3 Schools as a quick reference though, but from just looking at it, I don't really see much problems with it.