Asking for suggestions as a beginner
Hey guys, I'm new to this fantastic dreamweaver world and I've just started building my website. As a beginner, I eagerly need suggestions from you who have much more experience in terms of web designing. Here is the question bothering me since the day I started watching tutorials:
Firstly, I could learn as detailed as I could, before I start each step. For example, before I make my spry menu bar, I could read books about it to have a thorough understanding. Then I create one and do the same preparation for the next step.
Secondly, I could try my best to build an entire website by acquiring just the minimum knowledge about each function. After the entire structure was built, I could start looking into details and upgrade my features.
I'm wondering which way could be more efficient: the first makes me feel confident as I carry out my construction step by step, but could be super time consuming; the second tends to be the common way for writing an article, however, as for web designing, I always have fear that I might make some fatal mistake at the beginning that couln't be corrected so I might have to rebuild the website, only finding how silly I was.
I'm having a hard time thinking which is the better way until I realize I can ask you for help. I believe your suggesions would be much more effective than my own. Could you give me some suggesions for my problem? It would be really helpful to me.
Looking forward to your reply!
Hello there,
Welcome to the forums.
Your question is very common in most 'budding web designers/ developers'.
My recommendation here: Dreamweaver is only an application that helps you code, it is not the 'code' itself. You should ideally begin by learning basics of CSS & HTML and a little bit of Javascript (if you're planning to do a bit more niche work). Then, start using Dreamweaver. While DW offers a lot of great support tools to help you code, it doesn't do the code itself. You should know exactly what you want before you can start creating something in DW.
In your scenario, I'd recommend your first approach. Follow a step-by-step tutorial. Get things in place. While you're doing this, you'll learn lots more about what it is you're coding and what effect does it have on your webpage (visually). Feel free to make mistakes. That's the only way you'll learn in a self-taught mechanism.
For starters, I'd recommend these references you can go through:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1.html - This is a tutorial that guides you step-by-step about creating your first website in Dreamweaver. Authored by David Powers - one of our senior members in this forum
http://www.w3schools.com/css/ - Reference for CSS
http://learncss.tutsplus.com/ - A great free resource to learn the most basics of CSS - Most recommended if you're beginning to make websites
Also, begin here for creating a Photoshop design (for your website) which you can later code in Dreamweaver. This is very basic, but will help you understand starter concepts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4MJRhXajuw&feature=channel&list=UL - Follow all 3 parts. Once you're done with that, begin here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKeg1nhe-wE&feature=channel&list=UL - to make your Photoshop design into an actual website. This is a 6 part tutorial.
Once you're comfortable with the basic HTML + CSS web design, you can then learn HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery concepts as this is the modern standard now. But, don't rush in! Learn the very basics first before you get into anything advanced.
All the best.
Feel free to post back if you need more clarifications!
-ST
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