• http://www.dynamic-consultants.co.uk Danny

    Really useful info, many thanks!

  • http://wordpressapi.com Sony

    Great article. nice information about web designing and concept

  • http://sportsupplementsusa.com/ Maria

    Hi Jake,

    I appreciate your work. I learn most of the web design from smashing magazine, six revisions and PSDtuts.

    Thanks for sharing!
    Maria

  • http://www.globuledesign.com Globule Design

    Good article, brings back memories of trawling the net for tutorials when I got started.

    Sometimes at an actual job as I blagged so many interviews in the late 90s :D

  • http://www.thistlestar.com Tanya

    As I’m transitioning from print design to web design, this is very helpful! Thank you!

  • http://awhite.info Andrew White

    I would recommend against using w3schools.com. There are many errors in their tutorials which they are slow to fix. For more information, and to see alternatives, check out: http://w3fools.com/

    For a great HTML5 resource, I`d recommend Mark Pilgrim`s Dive Into HTML5: http://diveintohtml5.org/

  • http://www.kristincurrier.com Kristin Currier

    I’m an illustrator/designer/Photoshop gal who has taught herself HTML and CSS, and a little bit of JS through Lynda.com, blogs like this, books by Sitepoint and various authors, etc.

    It can be overwhelming to newbs…it’s not only hard to learn a new thing, but there is SO much to learn!! And information is everywhere…so much so, it can be hard to know where to start. And then you have to keep learning or you become obsolete. It’s so worth it though. If you don’t like change, and get easily frustrated, don’t become a web designer ;)

    I recommend Lynda.com because although you pay, the vids are top quality and very well structured. Plus, the selection is AMAZING, and it can be a relief to just go to one trusted place to learn anything you want. It’s worth the small member fee.

    Also, I have been totally addicted to Chris Coyier’s screencasts at CSS-Tricks.com. I can download them and watch them on my train ride (since I can’t get wireless at this point).

  • Michael

    Forgetting code for a moment, I would always hesitantly question the actual design abilities of those who have either not worked in design in some form for many years, have an incredible natural talent for it, or have not studied it in a form of formal higher education.

    A 13 year old can write HTML and CSS, let’s not pretend it’s difficult because it really isn’t. What separates a good web designer from a bad one is which one of them can produce a website that is visually attractive, functions perfectly and fulfills its role down to a tee.

    I for one am glad that I was taught design by professionals in a University – rather than spending months sat at home reading information off the internet. Whilst tutorials are great, I use them a lot too to expand my horizons, design is an applicable science and reading steps 1, 2, 3 does not qualify anybody at design.

    I just don’t believe you can learn design properly by reading a piece of text on a computer screen. It’s an aide, it’s a help, a resource, but it should not be where you go to learn design.

  • http://steamcode.blogspot.com/ slabounty

    I think I’d advocate breaking up the scripting and programming pieces differently. If you’re building up to becoming a web designer, the next logical step would be using JavaScript (probably with something like jQuery).

    After that, I’d suggest tackling a back-end framework like PHP, Ruby on Rails (acutally, I suggest Ramaze for a ruby based framework), or Django. At this point Ajax starts making sense. You’re also going to have to start learning databases and SQL as well as the framework’s language.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VBF5WZP54ZCRFQT6VNRYCEUMVA Anonymous

    Good thoughtful article. May I refer http://www.w3resource.com for learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, MySQL, HTML5, MongoDB, php.js. 

  • LizaAndy012

    Thanks for this post. My sister is taking education on web designing. This post will really help her.