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For all your goober needs
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Coventry, UK
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose. - Thomas Edison
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Hi All, I'm new here! I'm a amaeture web designer and can build a basic page with links, tags, etc. You know how it was when you first started. I'm wanting to learn it all and figure out how to do this for a living. Any suggestions. Meijer |
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Design Student
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 9
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Hey! I'm new too! I've been teaching myself HTML and CSS for a while now and and I am wondering what to do next. Learning the tags and the properties is one thing, but do you have any suggestions on finding raw data to try out designing? About the only thing I've been able to think of is a myspace page (dislike the site, and they have a hideous implementation of CSS). |
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Thank you very much for this thread. It was because of this thread I started poking around and learning about using div's instead of tables. Now things have really gotten interesting! There's still so much to learn, and the links you posted here have been a great resource. So yah, thanks! ~B |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
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Don't think of it as "divs vs. tables". Use the right HTML for the content - semantics - chunk it up with divs when you need to, and use CSS to make it pretty. Find good advice in the beginners web design thread.
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Bristol
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I've just started learning html/css and feel relatively comfortable with the basic concepts - so now I'm looking to try and study another discipline related to webdesign. (I need loads more time to be confident with html/css - but I can get by). Flash is the most attractive candidate - since being an artist it suits my brainpan (and using art software for years it's pretty intuitive) - but I'm also interested in php for the functionality it would enable me to add to client sites, and also javascript. Of the two latter languages, I'm more inclined to study php for it's practical application in e-commerce -but it's not that pleasant to set up.... Any recommendations which would be better to study? |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
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JavaScript is really becoming an essential tool. I'm still trying to catch up. Although libraries/frameworks like jQuery are making it much easier. Find good advice in the beginners web design thread.
patrick o'neill web developer | blog | spam humor |
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shiro
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Posts: 1,306
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Flash - make your sites look flashy! PHP - make your sites dynamic. Entirely functional, not visual Javascript - spice up your sites and add cool functionality. Somewhere in the middle of flashiness and functionality. Flash is the most likely to appeal to a design based person, where the other two are more likely to appeal to a programmer type person. So look at those and decide which one(s) look most appealing to you! |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Bristol
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To be fair, I don't really have any direct interest in php personally - my personal list of interests would be in this order: Flash Javascript DOM . . . . PHP - but I get the feeling that cart functionality will be a common request, and it's not something I've ever done before so I figured an understanding of PHP would probably be a default requirement for a web privateer. Still, thanks for the advice. Think I'll tackle Flash first, then worry about JS/PHP decision. |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
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You're doing front-end stuff - JS/DOM is front-end, PHP is back-end. Does it make more sense to continue to focus on the client side or jump over to the server side? DOM also comes before JS. You can't effectively learn JS without learning about the DOM first! Plus you need JS to load Flash, so there. Find good advice in the beginners web design thread.
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thank you guys, this is very useful for a noob beginer like me (its also my first post so hi so my first noob questions are, if dreamweaver's not the best program for webdesign what do you all think is? what do you use? and what do you recomend for a noob like my self? any help or thoughts are massively appreciated |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
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From there head over to HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles | HTML Dog and get your learn on. Start with the HTML Beginner tutorial and work your way through. Find good advice in the beginners web design thread.
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