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From: "James Jeffery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:06:33 +0100
Subject: Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites
Hi Marvin,
It sounds like your trying to do to much to soon.
First, lets understand the different aspects of web development.
1) Web Design - This involves understanding colors, extensive
knowledge in
graphics
applications such as photoshop, illustrator or fireworks.
2) Front End - This is the coding side of things, the HTML, CSS and
Javascript. Some
front end developers can design aswell.
3) Back End - This is the PHP, MySQL, Java, ASP, Perl and other web
based
languages*.
Alot of back end developers spend so much time behind what you see
that they
dont know
much about developing front end, but still, alot of people can and
do know
all 3.
There is more sides to the web, but i wont discuss them. To me it
sounds
like your trying to take
on all 3, without having any working knowledge, or not enough
knowledge of
any.
Personally i think you should sit back, and ask yourself what you
want to do
over the next 2 years,
is it front end, or back end, or purley design? And when you've
made up your
mind, spend the time
and learn more. If you cant grasp layers for design, your in a bit
of a mess
as this is real basic stuff,
so understanding how photoshop works would be a great start, but
you can't
expect yourself to
learn this all in a day.
Do what feels right, but at the moment, i would'nt waste anymore
time and/or
money on this course
until you can get to grips with the basics, which is at least
Photoshop,
HTML and CSS.
There are some good resources out there, search google.
Good luck, and keep sticking at it, i can recommend a few good
books if you
need. I will give you one
tip, if your going to be doing front end (HTML, CSS, JS) try to use
notepad
or notepad++, dont bother
with WYSIWYG editors such as dreamweaver ect. Notepad and the W3C
Manuals
should be enough
to learn the foundations.
Kind Regards
On 7/11/07, Susan Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here are some helpful links:
Color Design: http://www.sessions.edu/career_center/
design_tools/color_calculator/index.asp
and
Color Theory:
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html
Sample CSS Page Design Layouts for understanding how templates
layout design
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/page_layouts/
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssLayouts
Hope this helps - Susan
On 7/10/07, Marvin Hunkin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
just wondering, any one able to give advice, help, tips, tricks and
techniques.
now, failed my two visual design subjects in my web site design
course.
--
Susan R. Grossman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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