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I can't say I'm the coder you are, but I know what it's like to have lackluster design skills. Accept that you suck at design and start copying. Find sites tha
by damoncali 16y ago
I can't say I'm the coder you are, but I know what it's like to have lackluster design skills.
Accept that you suck at design and start copying. Find sites that you like, and recreate the elements that catch your eye. If your experience is anything like mine, you will wind up with a look that's worse than what you're borrowing from, but it will be better than what you would have done on your own. In the process you get to see why things look good or bad. Note that I don't mean snagging CSS and images, I mean actually recreating the elements from scratch.
Do that lots of times, and eventually you go from sucky to decent. Not sure how to get from decent to good.
- henryfarbles 16y agoI've been doing more web programming lately and have been doing pretty much the same thing. These days when I visit a web site I pay attention to the design and keep an examples folder in my bookmarks that I can reference for ideas and code.