66 Links To Learn The Webdesign Basics
Author: Stefan Vervoort | Please Comment!In the past, DivitoDesign has learned you how to start blogging and many people have learned from that. So I thought, why not give beginners some articles that help you to start with webdesign in general.I remember the time I started out and it wasn’t easy, simply because I didn’t know where to begin. It’s time to change that. Here are some of the best articles and sites from around the internet that will learn you all the basics you need.
General
- “What is Webdesign” guide
- Understanding Webdesign
- Validate HTML / CSS (Very important!)
- Why validate?
Programs
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Design)
- GIMP (Design)
- Adobe DreamWeaver (HTML/CSS/PHP editing)
- NVU (HTML/CSS editing)
HTML
CSS
- CSS Basics
- Complete CSS Guide + Reference list
- W3Schools - CSS reference
- Free CSS Ebook - Need to subscribe to the RSS feed to download the Ebook!
Design
- Photoshop tutorials
- GIMP tutorials
- Photoshop Basics
- Photoshop Shortcuts
- Create a weblayout in Photoshop + Dreamweaver
- 27 “how to design a website” tutorials in one place
Site Structure
Tutorial Sites
Colors
Resources
- Photoshop Brushes
- Photoshop Brushes II
- Photoshop Patterns
- Photoshop Layer Styles
- Wordpress Plugins
- Wordpress Themes
Stock Images
Search Engines
- How Search Engines Work
- Search Engine Optimizing Basics
- Off-Site Search Engine Optimizing
- On-Site SEO
- Add a Sitemap to your website
Inspiration
Fonts / Typography
- Wikipedia - Typography
- I love Typography
- Typography Essentials - A Getting Started Guide
- Fonts On the Internet
- DaFont
Usability and Accessibility
Blogging
Suggestions?
If you think a beginner would benefit from an article you have wrote or which you have found, feel free to leave a comment with the link, or send me an email!
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8:36 am on August 26th, 2008
Hi,
I suggest :
CssLeak - http://www.cssleak.com in Inspiration
BrushKing - http://www.brushking.eu in Resources (Photoshop Brushes)
Thanks
10:04 am on August 26th, 2008
great article!!!!!!!!!!!
11:05 am on August 27th, 2008
Hey,
Nice and usefull list! But I would always suggest beginners to use CMS systems like wordpress.
11:33 pm on September 7th, 2008
the information on this site is very help full….thank you..
4:04 am on October 14th, 2008
Wow, that’s a solid list. I talk about SEO on my blog and I get emails and comments from people a lot asking me for basic design stuff. This is a great list to send them to.
I honestly suprised by how many people get into “internet marketing” and completely forget the “internet” part of it. I consider basics like HTML and CSS to be a must.
8:10 am on October 16th, 2008
Thanks for great list ! Keep up the good work
3:50 pm on October 18th, 2008
NVU? Surely you jest.
The maintainers have abandoned it, there is no website for NVU anymore. The closing reference is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvu
So, why list it as a resource?
Also, where is “A list apart”, WebMonkey (inspiration); BlueFish, HTMLkit (programs) (to name a few); … I could go on.
Reviewing the list of stuff you have referenced, it appears to be “the list of expensive Windows only tools for dummies with a few open-source things to fool the gullible” thing to teach you web development for non-standards compliant crap.
JMHO. I’ll get off my soapbox now.
Good day.
12:42 am on October 24th, 2008
nice list there will deffinalty keep reeding your site!
thanks for the good info
5:37 am on October 26th, 2008
Good collection: I think I’ll be picking up a book or two (I need to improve typography and colors), and also the usability section.
Stumbled.
10:10 am on November 2nd, 2008
Thanks for putting together quite a definative list, ive added this page to a list of resources that our artists should be reading. While good at graphics, CSS and HTML validation seems to be alien to them.
9:14 am on November 3rd, 2008
WOW! Great article! Bookmarked. thx for very useful info!
3:25 pm on November 11th, 2008
great article but i think you should do more like how to gain traffic to your site or how to gain forum mebers, or along the similar lines.
11:38 pm on November 13th, 2008
I would just like to also congratulate you on this blog on web design. As a fellow web designer its great to see posts on how to do web design correctly, i think some of my local competitors need to read this! lol
9:08 pm on November 14th, 2008
very thorough list. thanks for sharing!
6:00 pm on November 24th, 2008
A fantastic bookmarked article!
I liked it a lot! Thanks
3:23 pm on December 1st, 2008
I think all of us already are familiar with html and css thing but the difficult part is photoshop. I have visited all photoshop links and they are very helpful. Although I have older version of photoshop but I think many of tutorials will work with that.
2:13 am on December 17th, 2008
photoshop is the easy part, coding it is the hardest, however im still improving
7:08 pm on December 17th, 2008
Thank you!
7:14 pm on December 23rd, 2008
Thanks for the list. Again, really useful stuff. Never got that whole W3 verified thing till now :).
9:18 pm on January 2nd, 2009
Thanks for this great post, huge useful list