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The only way you are going to learn is by doing. Set yourself a challenge of creating a website design each week. Your first attempts might not be very good but
by alexkearns 17y ago
The only way you are going to learn is by doing. Set yourself a challenge of creating a website design each week. Your first attempts might not be very good but, soon, you will start producing good work.
It is also worth checking out design showcase sites for inspiration. www.webceme.com is my own personal favourite.
One of the biggest issues I had when I started trying to design websites was getting the color scheme right. I would suggest, to begin with, checking out the color schemes on other sites. There are also a lot of tools for generating nice color schemes on the web. This article gives a good overview: http://whdb.com/2008/follow-the-rainbow-101-color-resources-for-web-designers/ http://whdb.com/2008/follow-the-rainbow-101-color-resources-...
- noss 17y agoI would also like to push learning by reading as a good alternative. "Don't make me think" was a great read to get the right attitude in what to strive for. I have heard great things from people reading the beta book "Web Design for Developers" from pragprog. (I didnt know about vertical grid layout for margins and line heights). As for practical things I have learned: Avoid singlepage photoshops. Instead break things down into design elements. Invoking these design elements should be as simple as placing some html elements in a div with the right class. Nothing should be allowed to creep into the page that has not been extracted to a reusable design element. This is important because all sites will evolve. And while evolving you want to keep using your design, and not add band-aid solutions. Oh, also: Avoid wingdings. :)
- jeroen 17y agoDid you mean http://www.webcreme.com/ http://www.webcreme.com/ ?
- alexkearns 17y agoSorry, yes. Typo. My bad.