How Do You Become A Professional Web Designer And Programmer?
Becoming a professional web designer is not as hard is it seems. With a bit of free time and some patience you can earn money doing contracts. • Get a good vector graphics editor such as Adobe Illustrator. Making images using vector graphics is the easiest way to grasp graphics design, so spending some money on something like Illustrator or Fireworks will be a great help. Inkscape is a nice free and open-source alternative for beginners. • Look at how other web designers create sites, note how a menu or content area is laid out and then use that knowledge in your designs. • You will need to learn skills in XHTML(Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS(Cascading Stylesheets) as a foundation on which to build. Basically all websites are written in a combination of these two languages. A good place to begin learning them is at W3Schools. Good books on the subject are also helpful. • So far, XHTML controls only the structure and CSS the look of the website. Neither of them cover any
• Get a good vector graphics editor such as Adobe Illustrator. Making images using vector graphics is the easiest way to grasp graphics design, so spending some money on something like Illustrator or Fireworks will be a great help. Inkscape is a nice free and open-source alternative for beginners. • Look at how other web designers create sites, note how a menu or content area is laid out and then use that knowledge in your designs. • You will need to learn skills in XHTML(Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS(Cascading Stylesheets) as a foundation on which to build. Basically all websites are written in a combination of these two languages. A good place to begin learning them is at W3Schools. Good books on the subject are also helpful. • So far, XHTML controls only the structure and CSS the look of the website. Neither of them cover any kind of programming aspects. Well, XHTM is sometimes considered declarative programming, but that’s out of scope of this how-to. A good introdu
