I need to learn web design Options

[rickysaurus]

I know next to nothing about wed design and coding, and it's high time I start because nowadays you can't get anywhere without being able to do web design. I followed a tutorial to make the website on photoshop which was all fine and dandy but when it came to coding it was a complete fail.

So that being said, I just wanted to know how you guys got started in learning how to code and such because I know there are a lot of coders out there on this forum, hopefully I can gain a few good insights from your stories, and maybe a few absolute beginner links would be helpful too. Thanks.

[rickysaurus]

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

[Maccabee]

I feel really really really dumb. How can I not get 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

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.

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.