How did you learn Webdesign?

[Gouri]

I know html from books. I learned my self by experimenting.Then java script, like that, one by one

now working on php.

 

[FalseHope]

I learn everything I know through the internet.

 

[wolf693]

It's a combination of self-teaching and online tutorials for me. w3schools helped me greatly!

 

[Twinkie]

I didn't know w3schools was so popular. It seems then there is nothing more I can do than attend a paid course to learn more, and look at the PHP Manual. >.< I recommend Sam's Teach Yourself books because they are all written in a common layout, and are very thorough. Thank you for your help, I repped all that I could

 

[Jesse]

at first i learnt from my self but as i go farther i read books on the internet, etc.

 

[Twinkie]

I will be making my own tutorial site eventually, and it will be as thorough as the books. Also, I will include information from all the different sources I learned from.

 

[Zdroyd]

Mainly as I studied C++ on my free time (With books) I picked it up. There was references to it in the books and as I started to go on the Internet more

I started looking at source codes for web pages, and the Forum tags helped me learn the basics.

 

[flurgal]

Im self taught - but every now and again i use tutorials. Funnily enough i got into web development by programming. I started C# when i was 7 when i was given a pc. Then i learned C++ and then i moved onto HTML. Now i use PHP . Im starting to get into ASP now.

Its really sickening for me - im only 14 and theyr teaching the BASICS of html. I asked my teacher real nice if i could go off and do wha i want (web related though) And everyone is like - "Gutted..."

 

[Sohail]

To be honest, i just learnt web design by messing around wit everything and now people actually think i'm quite good when it comes to web design now and for once, i agree . So just mess around and read articles of the internet, and always keep the "Web Designer Mag" with you as it can give you some interesting information =]...

 

[Twinkie]

I should have included trial and error as an option =)

 

[Nightmare Demon]

got in to webdesign by being on a few web sites a few years ago and they didnt have any web masters (coders) so they asked if people would help out and over time I became a few sites sole web master and did all there work for them from there started making sites for people and had a few myself untill my 1st kid was born and my time on the net was cut down but now they grown up im back on net and coding again lol

 

[calvinvandermeer]

I personally learned web design from web tutorials. I used w3schools for the most part, I really liked them because they had a "tryiteditor" which let you edit the code and see what would happen. Unfortunately, it is a little out of date (although how can anything stay up to date these days?) and it can be difficult at time to find a specific piece of information - but if you do the entire tutorial in one straight shot it is quite useful. I don't think that books on webdesign can be as useful as websites because the publishing process takes way too long and by the time the book is out the information is already outdated. So for any newbies (myself included) who are looking for information on web design I would say just google it.
Calvin

 

[Agenator]

I do mostly experimentation. I learned CSS by using w3 schools as a reference and going through a couple of wordpress templates and changing images and so forth to what I want. I sugest you try the same....

 

[jetmav]

Hi, Guys! My first post.
I started learning about Webdesign way back in 1999. Going online was quite expensive at that time in my country and websites were quite simple then. Somehow the thought of putting up mine kept bothering me until I tried to learn about HTML - that's when I saved a webpage on my computer and accidentally it opened up in Frontpage <default HTML editor on the computer I'm using> and saw the codes. Whew!

Somehow I kept doing that - saving webpages that I find interesting and while I practice editing them on Frontpage, I got to the point of tearing the contents of the webpages apart until the effects that I'm interested in were the only ones left. That is when I discovered about CSS and Javascript then later ASP for accessing and querying web databases <MS ACCESS>.

After going around the web for turorials and reading books and live webpages as a guide, I managed to put up my own websites in 2000 - 2004 for myself and some friends. I sort of hibernated in 2005 - 2007 for lack of time and resources to maintain them but now I intend to put up one or two again for some special projects. Thanks to x10 for the hosting.

 

[satheesh]

I learn Webdesign by Online Tutorial.

 

[eagles051387]

if u have any questions feel free to send me a pm and ill repsond in an orderly fashion

 

[KentonBomb]

I just borrowed a Sams Teach Yourself PHP from my local library, and I must say it is very thorough as well. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[angmor]

originally my grandpa told me how to do html, he gave me a ftp program and a html coding program and showed me some basic stuff i went from there. i learned that by taking the source code of websites and messing around with the values of things u can see what code does what. after a long time i learned about xhtml and flash made websites and .css files, and how easy things can get! and since i'm fairly good with photoshop i some-what have an idea of how i could make a layout, and then cut it up into individual images that would create the graphic layout of the website.

i personally think some basic instruction is all ya need, html is very easy and simple compared to other languages. plus if you're motivated and enjoy it, then u learn that much faster.

 

[Daniel S]

I learnt by experimenting and looking at coded that already have been made and a mixture of online tutorials and For dummies books.

I would like to learn how to program games and visual basic.

 

[FalseHope]

VB is an old code. Quite simple to be honest. It looks like most people learn from either online tutorials or looking at stuff that has already been coded. Both good ways.