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Old 07-05-2008, 11:47   #12 (permalink)
texo
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Originally Posted by shmay
I am a newbie designer. I've gone through sitepoint's Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS and HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, so I know the basics.
However, each site I attempt to create looks like garbage. I just don't know how to design good looking sites.

HTML and CSS are not used to design sites, and that is perhaps why your designs are not turning out well. A well-designed site always starts with a blank piece of paper and a pencil, or a blank canvas in Fireworks (or photoshop or whatever you prefer) and progresses from there.

Only once you have the site looking good in your graphics program, does the html/css come into play.
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