I feel really really really dumb. How can I not get this. -_____-

Most people don't get it.

It took me a couple years to really understand coding, so don't worry if you don't get it right away. I usually don't use any special programs to code, it's more of test-until-it-looks-right sort of thing for me d: Usually taking apart someone else's coding and messing around with it a bit helps me learn what the code affects, and from tehre I build my own codes. Just keep trying ^___^

i do only website layouts and designs, simple to complicated, and i'd hate to break this to you but you won't learn web design by asking around others nor will you master it in a few months, first it takes years to learn, and there's NO LEVEL OF MASTERY in web design, every year, new stuff comes out, new software, programs, codes, scripts, techniques, and who knows what else, what i did was start reading good site tutorials and experimenting slowing with small codes, then they got bigger, i started making templates, then i added on features like images, animations, css scripts, javascripts, etc. etc.

and i started 2 years ago. an i'm still very new to all this.

It takes time. Practice makes perfect. So what are you using to learn? Did you use w3schools.com?

Like I said I just started here and went through all 43 pages. I read 5 pages a day and made sure I soaked it in. And I tried using every code as I went. I then did the same thing in css. I am now fluent in html/css and I can just sit down and type up a whole site and then make the images and put it all together. Then I troubleshoot until it has the result I want. Then when I actually got a website I learnt about php includes. That way the content on every page is different but if you want to edit the navigation it changes it for every page and it makes every page the same. It makes life a lot easier. Also i put every page in its own folder for organization and so it makes the page website.com/contact instead of website.com/contact.php



New web technologies come out all the time, but just html doesn't change a ton.

I guess I am a fast learner. Cause I mastered coding in a month. Since then, which must have been 2 years ago I have been working on graphic design.

I don't know. You guys make it seem way more complicated than it needs to be. He's just trying to learn css and html right?

Yeash.

Web design/coding/development are all very very broad terms. You have to pick a place to start then work from there. Ask yourself a these questions first:

- What do I want to do? Do I want to do it all or just one specific thing?
- Where do I want to start? Myspace? Xanga? Personal websites?
- How much do I want to learn? Do I want to stick to the basics or work my way up to the most complicated things?
- Do I have the proper tools? (An image editor & coding software)
- Should I get a mentor?

From my experience it's best to start small then move on to a the harder things. At first I started hacking away at the hard stuff and ended up screwing myself over. Myspace and Xanga are great places to start but when you move on to working on a website you'll have to learn how to properly validate things because Myspace and Xanga aren't so strict about their HTML & CSS like it should be. (Trust me I learned that the hard way it's a little hard to break your bad coding habits once you start them) I suggest starting with your own website and keep it simple. When you work with HTML & CSS do all the HTML first then do the CSS/styling. Leave out all the flashy designs first and just do the "blueprints". Before you even start decide on how you want things to lay out. I'm sure tons of people probably already suggested w3schools to you which is great because it's one of the best resources out there. Don't worry about memorizing every code I've been using HTML and CSS for the past 5 years and I haven't even memorized everything.

Uh I'm starting to blab so I guess I'll just cut myself off here. Feel free to message me if you have questions or anything.