No big business will hire someone who doesn’t have a degree.
To learn it, the best way would be to pick up a teach yourself book about HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and a database book (No professional website doesn’t use some sort of DBMS). Then make websites to practice. To be honest, it’s not something you can just ‘pick up’. It’s a pretty complex field.
Actual design is more of a talent than something you learn.
Personally i can do all the technical part fine, but i have no flare for design. But i can create whatever someone else has designed.
If you want to be actually good at the design part i would study other websites, find websites you think look good, and compare them to those you dont. and pick out all of the aspects that make them look good, and make others not look good.
The advice you got is good, but if you want to be taken seriously by employers, learn computer programming first. (Learning a few computer languages isn’t learning programming.) Get a copy of (every programmer should own at least one copy) and study it. (The guy who wrote it also wrote a few computer languages - one used by the US military - so he knows what he’s talking about.)
Learning languages and calling yourself a programmer is like buying a box of Band-Aids and calling yourself a doctor. You can probably fool clients into paying you to design web pages, but get a real job doing it first, so you learn what NOT to do. (Being on the wrong end of a massive law suit, because the code you wrote ended up costing your client a few million, isn’t fun.)
Haha, this sounds a lot like me 6 years ago
Web Design industry is huge, and is made of a lot of other fields… to be a successful designer you need to learn information architecture, typography, design principles (balance, contrast, etc), color theory, branding, marketing, and some psychology to learn about human behavior… and learn where/how do people spend their time and money online, what people look for online… and give that to them.
Hope I was helpful
Cheers!
Alex Mos - Web Designer / Founder
No big business will hire someone who doesn’t have a degree.
To learn it, the best way would be to pick up a teach yourself book about HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and a database book (No professional website doesn’t use some sort of DBMS). Then make websites to practice. To be honest, it’s not something you can just ‘pick up’. It’s a pretty complex field.
Comment by soneill1986 — November 21, 2008 @ 6:55 am
You can learn a lot of the coding side from
Actual design is more of a talent than something you learn.
Personally i can do all the technical part fine, but i have no flare for design. But i can create whatever someone else has designed.
If you want to be actually good at the design part i would study other websites, find websites you think look good, and compare them to those you dont. and pick out all of the aspects that make them look good, and make others not look good.
Comment by Aerivium — November 21, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
The same as the way to Carnegie Hall.
Comment by dhvrm — November 23, 2008 @ 6:26 am
The advice you got is good, but if you want to be taken seriously by employers, learn computer programming first. (Learning a few computer languages isn’t learning programming.) Get a copy of (every programmer should own at least one copy) and study it. (The guy who wrote it also wrote a few computer languages - one used by the US military - so he knows what he’s talking about.)
Learning languages and calling yourself a programmer is like buying a box of Band-Aids and calling yourself a doctor. You can probably fool clients into paying you to design web pages, but get a real job doing it first, so you learn what NOT to do. (Being on the wrong end of a massive law suit, because the code you wrote ended up costing your client a few million, isn’t fun.)
Comment by colanth — November 23, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
you do search on google ,you can easily get information on college in your location .
but if you want to learn web design online,
this link contain good listing of top web designing sites
Comment by vinay_rks — November 27, 2008 @ 12:31 am
Haha, this sounds a lot like me 6 years ago
Web Design industry is huge, and is made of a lot of other fields… to be a successful designer you need to learn information architecture, typography, design principles (balance, contrast, etc), color theory, branding, marketing, and some psychology to learn about human behavior… and learn where/how do people spend their time and money online, what people look for online… and give that to them.
Hope I was helpful
Cheers!
Alex Mos - Web Designer / Founder
Comment by Alex Mos — November 28, 2008 @ 2:49 pm