How to Learn Web Design for Beginners?
Saturday, May 7th, 2011Web designing is the essence of every website. With the availability of around 206, 026, 787 independent websites, it has become really challenging for web designers to make a website design that will stand out from rest of the sites. For a beginner, it’s even more challenging to be at par.
There are plenty of easy-to-learn software and online tools to help beginners in learning details of web designing. You don’t have to worry about the cost as many of these are free of cost or low cost tools. With little efforts and sheer determination, you could become a persona of excellence.
You could enroll yourself to a web design course that will help you in learning various aspects of web designing. You can take this course in person or over Internet. There are many online web designing schools that offer a wide variety of online web design courses. You can easily learn designing directly from your home itself. Before applying for a course, know the purpose of your education. If you want to get a degree or diploma, go for some reputed web design school. It would really be useful if you compare some selected web design courses. Look for duration of the course, cost, course details, reputation of the school or included study materials. This will definitely help you to choose the right course.
Useful and easily available web design tools are:
HTML Editors: Adobe dreamweaver is an industry standard, commercial application among web designers. It has rich features and it easily integrates with other popular products such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Other good graphic editors are Nvu and PageBreeze.
Drawing and Image Editing: Pen/Pencil drawing programs are important. GIMP is powerful software for image composition, photo retouching and image authoring. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. Photoshop is a great graphic editor but is paid one. It is the most popular in design community but this is not great for image manipulation. ColorZilla and ColorLovers are great to create any background or pattern.
Testing and Tutorial: W3C is the best tutorial site from where you can learn web design. It offers validation tools to test errors in CSS or HTML.
More tools include Fire bug; it allows checking out elements on an HTML page, CSS or JavaScript, Designers Toolbox; for all kind of print and document sizes, Color Schemer and Pingdom tools.
