How to become a website designer?
I would like to know the learning path to become a website designer. And how long it takes to be ready to start working?
When I started learning about web design, I already had a strong background on programming and networking. The two go hand in hand when it comes to web design. My advice is to read up on how the internet works, then learn how to host your own websites, then progress into learning intricately the nature of X/HTML. From there, you will be ready to tackle client and serve side scripting languages.
The graphical part of web design is something that lies seperate from the technical nature of web development. Graphic design is something that some people just don’t have. Try starting on paper by exploring your creativity and experimenting with what you would possibly design. Once you think you have successfully developed your creativity in graphics, get yourself a good vector graphics program. Photoshop or its free alternative, GIMP, will do. Start trying to duplicate your paper designs on the graphics program. The last pat is learning how to slice the design and optimize it for the web, but by now you will probably figure it out 
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
When I started learning about web design, I already had a strong background on programming and networking. The two go hand in hand when it comes to web design. My advice is to read up on how the internet works, then learn how to host your own websites, then progress into learning intricately the nature of X/HTML. From there, you will be ready to tackle client and serve side scripting languages.
The graphical part of web design is something that lies seperate from the technical nature of web development. Graphic design is something that some people just don’t have. Try starting on paper by exploring your creativity and experimenting with what you would possibly design. Once you think you have successfully developed your creativity in graphics, get yourself a good vector graphics program. Photoshop or its free alternative, GIMP, will do. Start trying to duplicate your paper designs on the graphics program. The last pat is learning how to slice the design and optimize it for the web, but by now you will probably figure it out
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