learning to design websites

gifford · #1 September 23rd, 2003, 11:18 AM

[font=Arial]Hi ppl

i am going round and round in circles with web designers and all sorts and have been thinking about going into it myself.

What is the quickest and easiest way to learn to design your own websites.

Im very good at watching other people and learning from them but pretty crap at doing it myself from books and stuff.

Ideally i want to learn the scripts not using a tool like dreamweaver or others

Anyone got ne suggestions please.

Cheers

Jimbo

renegade600 · #2 September 23rd, 2003, 12:15 PM

Each person learns a different way. If you only want to use scripts then just start trying to create pages in notepad.

However, the wysiwyg type software is a great way to play around with codes to see what they do. When I was learning, I got frontpage, download several working pages with just html, and started messing with the code in the html portion of the software just to see what it did and how my changes affect the pages. It was a learning experience. Especially since FP is not non-msie browser friendly. This forced me to learn html so pages created with fp will work for all browsers :-)

You can do almost the same with notepad and a browser, download a page onto your computer, open the source with notepad, open the page with your browser and start making changes, refreshing the browser to view how your changes affect the page.

Also I have a nice thick book on html which comes in handy at times. I found at times it is easier and faster to find answers from a book than from forums and google searches :-)

disclaimer, the above is my way of doing things, it may not work for everyone and may seem foolish :-) but it was effective for me.

**degsy** · #3 September 23rd, 2003, 04:16 PM

Learning HTML and learning a package are two different things.

Firstly, you should know (X)HTML, CSS and possible limited Javascript.
You can buy teaching books, such as (X)HTML in 24 Hours or similar.
There are also plenty of websites.
http://www.w3schools.com

Then there are the packages such as Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver can be very complicated, but when you've learnt it you could create a decent page in minutes. Dreamweaver, as with all Macromedia products, have excellent Help & Tutorial files to teach you the finer aspects of the program.

**rockboy** · #4 September 23rd, 2003, 09:23 PM

Much of the software is only a shortcut for creating web pages and getting the content online which ultimately is the purpose. If you want to learn more about creating web pages, you need to at least learn basic html. If you get beyond that then there is more and more to learn. You could start here:

http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/makapage/index.html

I suggest you get a basic text/html editor that you can use much like Notepad, but better. This can help you edit pages using basic html. I like Note Tab. There is a free version that is excellent. http://notetab.com/

gifford · #5 September 24th, 2003, 11:26 AM

tks peeps

ill have a look at those web sites if ne 1 has any other suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated

:-)

jimbo

IMadmin · #6 September 25th, 2003, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gifford

tks peeps

ill have a look at those web sites if ne 1 has any other suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated

:-)

jimbo

Well what I did to learn HTML is:
I searched "HTML Tutorials" on goggle.
Another method I used was to use a WYSIWYG editor, such as MS FrontPage, and like renegade, just play around with differen't things in there and then click on the HTML tab (in MS FrontPage) and see what it does, then preview it.

Or as the traditional way of doing it... Go to your local store and get some books on it, Or buy it online. But becareful with those credit card numbers! Their are some sneaky people online now days!