Comments on: Becoming a Web Designer

By: admin

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:58:46 +0000

@cbakes – glad you liked it. You can do it, just takes a little nudge.

By: cbakes

cbakes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:23:20 +0000

Geo, this is such a great post. Obviously I’m way late on the reading part, and yes I’ll admit I need to read your blog more often. Great job on the redesign. I still need to buy my domain (totally sad and a little embarrassing that I haven’t even done that yet), but I plan to for the new year. I’m going to start messing with stuff…play around in photoshop more, look at designs/sites I like, etc. 2010 will be the year I design SOMETHING…even if it’s just a button, I have to start somewhere and stop being so afraid. And Lynda is my bff too

By: Jeb

Jeb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:58:15 +0000

Thanks for a great article. I’m definitely not a web designer, but it’s a goal for sure. I started with WP and customized from there. I still feel like I barely know a thing, but it’s getting better.

One question for the group, though…is there a place out there one (me) could get a good ‘big picture’ take on HTML/CSS? See, I know how to find the code that will do whatever it is I want to do, but I have not one single clue as to why it works. It would be so much better for me in the long run if I could get a handle on the big picture…not sure if that would be called theory, or what.

Anyway, any advice would be appreciated. And thanks again for the post. Cheers.

By: PB

PB — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:23:57 +0000

Absolutely taking note! Thanks brother.

By: George Huff

George Huff — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:06:05 +0000

@mike – Some people start from a design standpoint and learn Photoshop – some spend all their time coding other people’s layouts. I would say learn it all, but I would argue the learning curve to coding is lower than the learning curve of becoming a good designer. In short – learn it all. Good luck.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:21:55 +0000

What would u say are the most important things to learn? besides
css and html?

By: mark vernon

mark vernon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:23:29 +0000

try vtc.com as well for online video tutorials (over 80,000 of them), as well as iplotz.com for rapid mockups and wireframing

By: George Huff

George Huff — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:18:47 +0000

@erynn – you’re welcome!

@simulacra09 – sure, why not.

@anna – thanks for leaving your story. I think your second comment sums up the feelings that most of us have. As for your first comment, go write stories! I think many of us accidently fell into this field.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:59:15 +0000

(Incidentally, I can’t think of anything I’d rather do)

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:58:30 +0000

It’s funny, I never intended to be a web designer. I tinkered every day, but it was for the fun of it, not the career. And then all of a sudden, I was accidentally a web designer. I always thought I’d be a journalist. I’ve been designing things for 15 years and I still think of it as “probably not permanent”.

I love, love, love the web and all its technologies and inspirations and trends, but I never meant to do it all day every day. Now I work on huge developments for federal government and wonder just how it happened that way (and when it might be that I can write stories for a living instead).