Templates are a great place to start learning IMO. There are plenty free templates/themes for many of the popular open-source CMSs (eg Wordpress, Drupal etc).
If your project doesn't require a CMS, you may still be able to find free templates, or it may be worth the $20 to buy one (if it's a good learning experience, or can build it into the fee for the project). Not sure a good source for these though... Another option is to look at CSS frameworks such as Blueprint or 960gs. Both have what you need for the basics of layout, and then it's up to you to add the visual flourishes. They do a great job at handling some of the browser inconsistencies, and give you a good starting place to see how to organize CSS. Kevin On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:05 AM, MGP <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > I'm a newbie here. I know Dreamweaver, Photoshop and a bit of > Flash. Till now I was designing simple websites 4-5 pages using free > templates from the web. Didn't earn much but it was ok. My main > concern is it ok to design websites using templates done by others. Is > this what everyone does? I can hand code the site using DIV's but it > takes a lot of time and has lots of browser compatibility issues. > Also I need to polish my skills and I'm willing to work hard to > learn the nuances of the trade. Which are the good sites with videos > on the web? I learn't a lot using youtube. Also is there a place where > I can purchase a CD/download a good set of templates legally at a > reasonable price. > > I have an offer to make 12 page website and I want it to work out so I > can use it as a portfolio piece. > > Thanks > MGP > > -- > -- > You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with > CSS" at Google groups. > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] -- -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
