Web Design (which programs to start to learn)?

Question

I am a magazine graphic designer and wish to start the learning process of Web Design and pacifically which order of programs I should learn. I've been recommended knowledge of HTML, CSS and Flash (but need to find out what is the right starting point and my way into learning all of this the right way).

Hope to hear someone who can advise me on the right approach: Daryl

Answer 1

See if your compnay will let you get your hands on Macromedia Dreamweaver. Everyone says you need to learn HTML first (very true) but its kinda hard to just jump in and learn it. Dreamweaver can be your training wheel into HTML. PLUS - Any community college will provide a workshop on how to use Dreamweaver and HTML in the process.
-Methane

Answer 2

HTML is the base of all web design. Then you might want to learn CSS as you can create something a little more visually pleasing with it. Finally you should learn Flash, again it allows you to create visually appealing web sites. This is the order that I have learned things :)

Answer 3

Deitel is a great book. But I must caution you mate. Learning a programming language by yourself is EXTREMELY difficult. It's kinda like learning french is you've never heard or seen it before by reading a book. Sure you'll get the nouns and verbs correct, but your structure will seriously suffer. In other words, you'll actually never really "learn" how to write code. You really do need to go to school and have a teacher and classmates to learn from. You said you don't have time. Attempting to learn a language like C++ or Java on your own will take much longer than the 4 months in a classroom. Good luck.

Answer 4

Definitely start with HTML, that is the basic web programming language. Then move to CSS and maybe JavaScript. Flash it not necessary, but good to know.

Answer 5

HTML first (you can't have a page without HTML!)

Then CSS... an HTML page without CSS is absolutely NOTHING.

Then Flash... Flash is a neat little application; not essential to web pages but you can make nice little add-ons with it.

Answer 6

For the website learn . . .
XHTML 1.0
CSS 2.0
Then consider PHP (ASP.net if you have previous programming experience)

For graphics
Photoshop (if you are already using it)
or Fireworks

On line tutorials:

http://www.w3schools.org is a great place to start.

Use all browsers to see how things work in all environments and validate your code at http://www.w3.org.

Answer 7

Don't use design programs if your just learning... because then you really haven't learned how the code works. You just learned how the program works.

I recommend this site. Lots of people recommend this one! It has everything there.

http://www.w3schools.com/

Answer 8

Get Mozilla's Seamonkey (free). It will generate the HTML code for you!

Answer 9

i will sugest u start with PHP. you can try dotash alternet php implementation. which is a all in one php, mysql apache version in ashphp, ashsql and ashserver. total package size is less then 1MB , practice from your pendrive. slowly move to xampp or some thing like this.

Answer 10

i study multimedia computing, the subject combines computing, graphics and multimedia together, so i do know a fair bit about graphics, i would strongly recomend for you start using flash and dreamweaver. that would be good enough.