How did you learn Webdesign?

[Twinkie]

I have been trying to learn web design as a hobby since 2005 and have been having trouble finding a good tutorial. I looked at online tutorials and noticed they are all generic and incomplete. Finally, I tried books, which is the best I have seen so far. Which is the best way to learn without attending a paid course? Please specify where you learned.

 

[KentonBomb]

I self taught.

I began learning HTML at the age of 7. I use http://www.w3schools.com for learning every language I need to know.

The younger you learn it, the easier you will pick it up.

 

[Twinkie]

That was my first source, but as I started with books, I noticed how incomplete it was. Although, w3schools.com is a really good reference.

 

[KentonBomb]

The only book I ever read relating to web design was a Javascript book. It was very thorough though.

 

[Twinkie]

I read a JavaScript, PHP and C++ book all from Sam's Teach Yourself Series. I learned everything else from w3schools.com and looking at the source code of websites.

 

[intheclutch]

It was taught as a part of a few classes I took in college. It was mostly trial and error and asking why something didn't work the way I thought it would. That's good and bad...good because I remembered most things, but bad because it was quite frustrating at times.

 

[dwd2000]

I am also self taught. I started in the mid '90's, with some online tutorials, then bought Netscape Navigator Gold 3, because of the built in WYSIWYG editor. I learned to tweak some .cgi and some javascript. I had a few websites up for a couple years, then got out of it for a while. The last couple months I've been catching up and learning new things I didn't have to learn before. Html was very easy to learn, but now I have to learn a lot more. I prefer using a WYSIWYG editor, rather than coding from scratch.
The very first website I went to, to learn, was called, "Nuthin' but Links", but it hasn't been around for quite a while. It had tons of links to tutorials about everything. If one place was too difficult to understand, I went to another. I kept going from site to site, until I understood, or just found an answer to what I was looking for. I eventually found everything I needed from that one links site.

 

[Smith6612]

I taught myself how to code via experimentation in HTML, and right now I'm using some very good online tutorials to teach me PHP.

 

[tgkprog]

online + experiment
Edit:
http://www.w3schools.com/

 

[arkky]

It was self-taught when I first started a blog, and a few free-lance basic sites for my friends. From there on out, it was experimentation with the codes and stuff, to see what I could do.

Planning to take on another language besides my very outdated HTML, heh.

 

[sunils]

Learnt HTML first while in school.
Then my passion turned towards vb,java..
Now again back to webdesign.
Started to learn jsp, javabeans, and servlets, ejb from books since i have to take class in the computer center near my home (good way to study now a days)
then went about learning php since some of the site that has to remodeled for my office were in php. Went through many online books and tutorials. Still in the process of learning it.
Tried my hand in photoshop and flash in my college days (which finished one year back) itself.
Then after getting interested in webdesign now in the process of learning that too with the help of online tutorials and other examples. and experimenting with it.

 

[sumitmehta]

A combination of Sams Teach yourself and w3schools is good and may work for you.

 

[VPmase]

I just studied code from what other people have made.

 

[TechAsh]

I'm self taught. I used a mixture of studying code, and online tutorials.

 

[Dan]

I just learnt it by looking at code. I used to use dreamweaver so would design a website and then go and look in the code to see how it's done...

 

[swirly]

I learned HTML on Neopets hahaa

 

[codito]

I learnt mostly through experiments (online tutorials and google is your friend). Well my first book was HTML Black Book by Steven Holzner.

 

[eagles051387]

i learnt from a book as well as being self thought. i also learned through helping maintain and update my highschool wetbsite

 

[score_under]

Some random woman came to my class and taught me how to do HTML in year 3. It stuck ever since.

 

[callumacrae]

A used w3schools and then bought the "For Dummies" books on JavaScript, HTML and PHP & MySQL. I am looking to get a new PHP book though, because the Dummies one is not very detailed in PHP.