How did you learn web designing?

duzst said:

Amen brother.

As a User interface designer at least I know the basics of my industry needs so i can find suitable devs and designers for my projects. You don't have to expertise each of them one by one.

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Problem is with entrepreneurship and freelancing if you aren't English native speaker, not very doable.

I had 0 opportunity to speak with natives.

So I need to start there.

Then work on sales skills.

Or learn how to get good 9-5.

My 2 webmaster/ coding jobs were disaster. Worked among inexperienced individuals on many projects. Harmful experience. Now I'm not rushing it.

I shouldn't work with my nation. I had much better results working for the US.

I watched a shit ton of YouTube videos.
Used freecampcode
Got a WordPress account and a figma account and started practicing.

Self Taught
Learnt With Free Videos On Google AND Free Courses BEFORE I invested in paid courses!

I spent my computer classes in middle school building websites on FreeWebs instead of doing the class excel work. I don't know how I graduated.

That evolved into WP skills by building some sites. Now I want to learn more about SEO to get people to my sites, but the WP skill saves on development charges.

Web design is not a big deal, but most people do not know how to do it, you can learn to do WordPress websites, or Wix or any other websites easily by watching videos.

Boostero said:

Curious as to why you regret taking the course? Was it because most of them were things you could also learn through self-study?

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No teacher was great and class was half teaching and self learning not difficult problem was the project, needed to work with other 4 lazy guys that were telling we will add this and more features but they were not working, I told at the engineer at that moment I was doing project by my self and teacher said continue working this happen in real life so had to safe the project by my self that is why refuse to go back to that hell hole, and still many things can be searched and learned by your self, creating websites is funny and love I still od and learn a few things sometimes but that bad experience don't allow me to go back there but you can learn by your self there is a lot of documentation and step by step on the web, as a suggestion to learn do a e-shoping site, you will put everything in practice there start only with HTML, then Javascript then CSS and lastly AJAX if i'm not wrong I believe is for websites optimization but this was almost 10 years ago so not sure if that is used.

Boostero said:

Interested to know how you learned about web design. Did you take a course? Studied on your own? Share your experience here

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You can learn web design in many ways. The best way is to start with YouTube. There are many YouTube videos and playlists about Web design.

I've started learning myself to apply for a web development job. But in the end I gained practical experience by building websites for other companies as well as a website for my own pest control business .

I learned web design through online tutorials, practice, and experimentation with various tools and techniques. Additionally, I studied books and took courses to enhance my skills. By continuously building and designing websites, I gained experience and improved my abilities over time.

watching tutorial videos and pdf's

I got started in lockdown. Started in Shopify for an online business when I was bored. Got pissed off how restrictive Shopify was so moved onto Wordpress, using Elementor. I soon realised how shit Elementor was for performance etc. so I moved onto Oxygen builder, now I use Bricks Builder. Ended up getting a job at a Digital Marketing company just off showing them my designs.

I watched videos on Youtube along the way for some stuff, other times I'd search online for answers. Eventually you'll get there, but you need to put in the work, and build sites... a lot of sites.