learning web design

[lookingahead]

Hello, I'm new here(if you didn't know that from my post count lol) well I came here to learn web design so I could work on my business as well as design for others. Well enough about my purpose here. I was wondering what yall would recommend to begin learning.

I'm working on learning HTML right now, since it is the basic form of web design. After I learn that I was going to learn CSS and Javascript since those seemed like the most used languages for design.

Do you think this is logical or should I learn some other language since I'm so new at this. I have a little experience with Visual Basic so I'm not a complete noob. Thank-you for your time. I look forward to learning as much as I can from this forum.

 

[conor]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum! I think html and css is a good start. Once you've done that you could try tackling javascript or PHP.

For learning HTML and CSS or PHP http://www.w3schools.com/ is a good site.

If your going for javascript i'd recommend using jQuery - a free javascript library which makes the language a lot easier for beginers and it's also used by a lot of web developers. Even google use it. http://jquery.com

 

[che09]

http://www.w3schools.com/

I second this recommendation! It's a good site for learning HTML!

 

[lookingahead]

Thanks for the welcome guys. I've been using tizag.com for HTML, though I've heard many good things for w3schools. I'll probably be checking them out next, any recommendations for after I learn these three languages?

 

[conor]

After you've learned HTML and CSS I would recommend PHP. http://php.net http://www.w3schools.com/php/

 

[lookingahead]

Thanx, I'll look into it when it comes time.

 

[saber mogaddas]

http://www.w3schools.com/ best Site For Learning Web Design..Your Welcome To in Web Design World..First Item For Learn Is HTML..

 

[jeanne19]

I'm looking forward to learn more in this section thank you

 

[Faviankacerski]

You can visit here entheosweb.com/website_design/design_ideas.asp and how-to-build-websites.com/ .... It will supply good help to learn basic things about web design.

 

[zipinel]

You can also find useful information about web design on www.lynda.com

 

[benjamin.morgan]

Sitepoint has some excellent books as well.

 

[Edge]

If I was starting out I'd get something like Adobe Muse as it creates the HTML and CSS for you from a design. It may not be code made in heaven but it's a quick way of getting something in place.

 

[lookingahead]

Wow such great feedback from all of yall.

Which would be a better way to learn....tutorials/websites or reading books; or is a mixture better?

sdesign1: Thanks for the tip, thought I'd rather be able to code it all from the get go. I will pass the tip along though cause I know several others needing sites who don't want to code.