How hard is it to learn web designing?
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Techxan
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How to learn HTML.
With HTML, you create sections on a web page and give them names. Then you use a style sheet to tell the browser how to display the section. Then you put the contents into the section. The sections are called divs.
To start to learn, try this. You tube is your friend.
And this course as mentioned above.
1 Download an html template.
2. Download HTMLkit.
3. open the index page with HTMLkit
Change what you want, then look at the last change you made.
If it is ok, make another change. If you screwed up, use undo. Save often
First command to learn is
.
This is an ignore command, and anything you put in there will not displayed. When you want to remove something, use this command until you make sure you have done it right. Check the effect, and if you did it right then delete. IF everything went to hell, you probably took out an extra DIV.
In HTML. display instruction are placed in the CSS. Sections of the site are in <div></div> tags
Practice removing entire sections until you understand how divs work.
With these tools, and an HTML cheat sheet, you should be able to modify an HTML template within a week, if you try to learn and have any tech ability.
Each div will have a name, and the CSS will have a section in it that has the same name and sets up the styling for that section.
The HTML contains what is displayed on the page, the CSS contains how it is displayed.
It takes no longer to learn basic HTML than it does to really learn wordpress. If you validate your pages, you will learn faster. using this method, and the how to do websites link above, and you should be making template based sites in short order.
Don't let anybody put you down for using templates until you learn to code. The are probably using themes and WordPress anyway.
This will not turn you into a web developer,but you can build learn to build any IM site you want fairly fast, and you have control over everything.
Use firefox and the web developer toolbar, and look at the div order to id the sections you want to change, then search for this section in the HTML code.
With HTML, you create sections on a web page and give them names. Then you use a style sheet to tell the browser how to display the section. Then you put the contents into the section. The sections are called divs.
To start to learn, try this. You tube is your friend.
And this course as mentioned above.
Code:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/member-downloads/568827-get-become-web-developer-scratch-complete-course.html1 Download an html template.
2. Download HTMLkit.
3. open the index page with HTMLkit
Change what you want, then look at the last change you made.
If it is ok, make another change. If you screwed up, use undo. Save often
First command to learn is
Code:
<!-- XXXXXXXXXXXXX -->This is an ignore command, and anything you put in there will not displayed. When you want to remove something, use this command until you make sure you have done it right. Check the effect, and if you did it right then delete. IF everything went to hell, you probably took out an extra DIV.
In HTML. display instruction are placed in the CSS. Sections of the site are in <div></div> tags
Practice removing entire sections until you understand how divs work.
With these tools, and an HTML cheat sheet, you should be able to modify an HTML template within a week, if you try to learn and have any tech ability.
Each div will have a name, and the CSS will have a section in it that has the same name and sets up the styling for that section.
The HTML contains what is displayed on the page, the CSS contains how it is displayed.
It takes no longer to learn basic HTML than it does to really learn wordpress. If you validate your pages, you will learn faster. using this method, and the how to do websites link above, and you should be making template based sites in short order.
Don't let anybody put you down for using templates until you learn to code. The are probably using themes and WordPress anyway.
This will not turn you into a web developer,but you can build learn to build any IM site you want fairly fast, and you have control over everything.
Use firefox and the web developer toolbar, and look at the div order to id the sections you want to change, then search for this section in the HTML code.
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weenyhutjr
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Hello. If you are a hands-on learner. I recommend psdtuts. Look it up on Google, because I cannot post links yet. However great, great graphic artists and web designers submit very well-made, easy-to-follow tutorials on Photoshop. The tutorials range from button-making, to effects, to web design.
The website helped me greatly. I never even bothered with books or anything like that.
The website helped me greatly. I never even bothered with books or anything like that.
srb888
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Web designing: Either it's very easy, or it's extremely hard, depending on what you want to learn, and how you want to begin learning it, and then keep on learning it. 
Develop an eye to analyze a good web design. Then, learn the different parts of the site/template that you want to learn about. Don't miss out on the CSS part, it makes or breaks the design. If you want to learn website design, then learn what are the parts of a common website. Take an example, and see how the header, content, sidebar, footer sections of that site are made of. Watch each component there, and see what makes those components. See the colors, background, font, formatting, paddings, margins, etc. Firebug addon for Firefox will help you learn these things easily.
Don't rush things, go slow and sure. Completely learn how each part is made. Also, learn Dreamweaver (DW) using the free tutorials, or learn from TutsPlus and Linda's. Learn about each section of the site (as above). Do plenty of trials. IMO, learn to design a HTML site first in DW. Make a simple site first. Test it. Then go forward from there. The above is only one of the many methods to learn website designing...
DW is difficult to learn, but those who have mastered it, have learned the basics completely first. And for MOST of those masters, I believe that the learning basics was a bigger pain than learning the advance DW techniques. So, unless you are a born and gifted DW specialist, there will always be those initial pains, frustrations, and head-banging moments,... plenty of them.
Develop an eye to analyze a good web design. Then, learn the different parts of the site/template that you want to learn about. Don't miss out on the CSS part, it makes or breaks the design. If you want to learn website design, then learn what are the parts of a common website. Take an example, and see how the header, content, sidebar, footer sections of that site are made of. Watch each component there, and see what makes those components. See the colors, background, font, formatting, paddings, margins, etc. Firebug addon for Firefox will help you learn these things easily.
Don't rush things, go slow and sure. Completely learn how each part is made. Also, learn Dreamweaver (DW) using the free tutorials, or learn from TutsPlus and Linda's. Learn about each section of the site (as above). Do plenty of trials. IMO, learn to design a HTML site first in DW. Make a simple site first. Test it. Then go forward from there. The above is only one of the many methods to learn website designing...
DW is difficult to learn, but those who have mastered it, have learned the basics completely first. And for MOST of those masters, I believe that the learning basics was a bigger pain than learning the advance DW techniques.
So, unless you are a born and gifted DW specialist, there will always be those initial pains, frustrations, and head-banging moments,... plenty of them.
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