learn a to z about web designing free?
August 10, 2010 by
Filed under web 2.0 design
hi i don’t know squat about web designing is there anywhere i can get started .where i can find basiic info about whats html and web 2.0 all that i really need to find my ground level so i can work my way up any info thanks guys.
Buy books like:
“HTML for Dummies”
“CSS for Dummes”
“Php / MySQL for dummies”
“Web Designing for Dummies”
or
Learn HTML + CSS from (to design the basic layout of site – including text, images, tables, forms e.t.c):
http://www.html.net/
Learn PHP from following sites (to program web applications, like: email system, guestbook, forums – you need to have knowledge of HTML+CSS are they are needed to require the basic layout)
http://www.php-learn-it.com/
http://www.phpbuddy.com/
Learn MySQL and its integration with PHP from (to enable database function in your site):
http://www.phpeasystep.com/
and finally, goto http://www.awardspace.com and grab your free account to test your knowledge… (Btw, u can practice/test ur HTML / CSS knowledge offline too.)
Terms:
HTML: The basic language used to create a page containing text/tables/links/images/forms. It can be aided by Javascript (bit un-necessary and complicated) and CSS (to make layout style sheet – HTML can do some, but CSS can be used to take control of all elements). To check some sample HTML codes, right click in your browser window and select view source.. Its very near to english language so you can easily learn it…
PHP: Used to give actions to objects so that u can make some applcations.. like, When you create form with fields (name, email address, age, message.), you need PHP to define what to do on submission (either to save it in text file, save it in database or email it to you)
MySQL: Database software (used to store large amount of data – like: logins/passwords/products/names)
Web 2.0: Combining HTML + CSS + JS and a modern browser will give u Web 2.0… Nothing special…
You also need some 2D graphics designing skills (Like: Photoshop, GIMP, Pain.net) so that, u can create exciting images for your website..
Regards!
Yes,
What you should know. First off, if you want to know ‘everything’ about web design, you are going to be busy for a while. But to get an introduction to the point where you can build, style, and functionality, as well as buying, uploading and managing your site is something that you can learn within a couple months. Here is a basic intro:
HTML – html is easy. What you want to do is cruise through a basic tutorial fast, just learning the basic mark up, how to do links, document headers, insert images, titles paragraphs, headers, forms, tables, lists and separate out your page with div tags. Basically, you are going to keep learning html as you learn everything else, but don’t waste to much time ‘studying’ it. Understand how it works. HTML describes the ‘what’ of your page…i.e. this is a header, this is navigation. It is important to do your html by hand, and not on a program that does it for you. Later you may want to use programs like that to speed up development, but in order to understand how everything else mentioned below works, you need the foundation in good html. When you are ready, start to understand html from the w3c website, so that you can remain at the cutting edge of it. I find myself on those pages almost daily. Use their html validator, its a great learning tool.
CSS – Initially you will probably find that CSS is a real step up in the learning. Actually, a lot of it is also really easy. The main thing that becomes very tricky is getting the positioning right. Actually, that is very tricky and even more so if you are trying to get it right in different browsers and monitor sizes. CSS what it’s name says, it styles your website. Make your page red, make your table have borders, make your titles bigger.
JavaScript – or other browser scripting languages. JavaScript has really become ‘the’ language of browser scripting. You may read stuff about why you want to avoid JavaScript because of lack of support on some systems…well these days almost everyone is keeping JavaScript enabled, and basically every major browser is using it. If you start to develop stuff for other use, by that stage you will know what you are developing for.
So basically a page with html and css DOES nothing. It’s almost like a picture on the wall. You can read the content, but you can’t do much else. JavaScript gives your pages some interactivity. Actually, initially you may feel like there isn’t much reason to learn it, but trust me, as you get into web development, you will want really sound knowledge of JavaScript more and more. If you don’t you will start hunting the web for scripts all the time and not know how to modify them to your needs anyway. Just learn it VERY, VERY well right from the start.
Throw Ajax in there while you are at it with the JavaScript. This group of stuff is the basics of DHTML.
Server scripting – PHP, Perl or various others. I am going to recommend php, not because I can compare it to others, but simply because I started with it, and LOVE using php. Server scripting is doing stuff before your page gets sent out to the user. It is the ultimate in web development, as you can create pages based on user input automatically. Scripting is really light weight programming.
I guess that you need to get and learn Flash. Everything else mentioned here you can have and learn for free, but Flash is proprietary from Adobe.
xml and especially how to work with RSS. – syndicate content from content management systems
From there the programming side of web development can just take off.
But the next thing you want to get your head around is working with servers and a bit of networking, using cpanel, ftp, and working with site tracking and stuff like that. Simple basics, but it can get very complex.
Then you want to learn about SEO and website management – how to make sure that your website is doing well, getting viewed, getting found on search engines like Google,
You have lots of work ahead of you…bookmark the links given in the source….get cracking!
The ultimate goal is to provide the web 2.0 compatible web based solution. Now if you want to learn all basics then you need to spend lots of your time in learning. Instead you can learn open source scripts. There are multiple open source scripts available for all of your web based requirements. You don;t need to redo the work. You just need to configure the scripts so it fits the requirements.
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