I am learning by watching video tutorials from tutsplus.

 

what about you guys?

Self taught. Started back in the 1990's with Netscape Communicator which came bundled with a HTML editor which had to be ordered on a CD! I just got stuck into learning HTML and the rest just followed.

Im all self taught, i use to play alot of text-based games so decided to make my own, i downloaded free scripts and learned from them. If you learn by making something fun it is much easier IMO.

Hi there

 

This free workshop with doBranch is really great! Learn the basics in one hour: http://www.dobranch.com/free/make-a-website-in-1h

 

They also offer a more intensive four week Web Fundamentals course, there is one taking place in London next week but you can also do it online:

 

http://www.dobranch.com/courses/22

 

http://www.dobranch.com/apprenticeships/web-app-apprenticeship

 

Hope this is helpful

 

Annie

Self taught since a 'Microsoft FrontPage' course in 1999 ... man that was a chocolate fire guard. I find self taught has worked well for me. I don't work well reading books cover to cover, most of my learning comes from having an idea and then logically working out the bits I don't know to complete it.

I always look to learn from textbooks. .gif' alt=':seas8:'>

I started making simple html signatures on an IPB forum. After that I tried doing a website using cutenews and then learned how to use Mybb and wordpress.

Self taught. But I really would like to take some classes, either online or through someplace. I am sure that could really help increase my skills. Luckily, the primary part of our business is development and not design, and the development part of things is all my wife.

I learned CSS/CSS3 from CodeAcademy and I'm self taught in html and php orginally I'd used premade templates and changed text and links and then I decided to go through the long process and get everything done.

I did forget to mention that although I don't like books as such for learning 'how to make a map' I do like their foundations which cover stuff like 'what's an array' and how they explain the fundamental structure of the language. I also find their glossary at the back handy, I love simple explanations of tag purpose such as http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_new_elements.asp and then get creative with which best suits the purpose for what I'm trying to do.

I learned CSS/CSS3 from CodeAcademy and I'm self taught in html and php orginally I'd used premade templates and changed text and links and then I decided to go through the long process and get everything done.

 

How's codeacademy for PHP?

codeacademy is pretty awesome I learned my javascript/Jquery on that site and the PHP is pretty good to.

It is not important that from where you learn.

rather, how you have learned is most important.

We design is an art. Artists, in general, born, not created.

We design is an art. Artists, in general, born, not created.

 

I don't really agree, maybe some have more talent than others but i believe that that inspiration can be nourished and principles can be learned.

 

I hope i'm not too off topic but i think i should post this quote here.

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good

taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff,

it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but

it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still

killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of

people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do

interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work

doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go

through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this

phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do

is do a lot of work. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take

awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” ― Ira Glass

Youtube videos explain it very good for me

Learned photoshop by myself, and later googled after whatever css code or html I needed to code my site the exact same way as it was designed. Could possibly claim that I have spent huge amounts of hours looking for a single line of code, just to get some design detail correct.

I learn how to write HTML code by my college teacher, and use wordpress to make website with Youtube videos.

On the web, started off using webs.com's html editor with a bit of help from sites like quackit.com, somehow got my first client and just improved then on in...

I am learning by watching video tutorials from tutsplus.

 

what about you guys?

I learned it from a school and it was 45 days course.

Self taught , there is good tutorials site - good http://www.good-tutorials.com/ . Also tutsplus .

 

I started to learn Photoshop few years ago , also I learned Flash but I focused on Photoshop to be the best .

I am one of those "What makes it tick?" sort of guys and wondered how web pages were built. So I bought a copy of 'Hotmetal Pro - HTML 4' back in the early 90's just as CSS2 was being released to the masses, and soon realised that 'wysiwyg' software was too limiting and you could do little with it. Then I started to Google all things web and it has been one of my hobbies ever since.

Self taught. I tried a course on media design about three years after I had started designing, but I did not feel like I was learning a lot, so I quit the course.

I was self taught for about 8 years but felt I had hit a wall with design at the time so went to uni and learnt a whole lot more.