this web design mess...
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- ukit0
Maybe I'm being logical to a fault here, but I'm of the mindset that either you know it or you don't. There's no mystery or talent required here, just knowledge.
The great thing about web design is that there are so many good tutorials out there that anyone can learn this stuff if they want to. The bad thing is that there are so many complicated, interlocking parts that it can easily get overwhelming trying to understand how it all works together. So just make sure you start from the beginning and learn it all bit by bit.
The other thing is to focus on the important parts and fuck the rest. I consider myself a fairly competent front end developer now in addition to designer, but I never sat down and read the HTML spec piece by piece. There are a number of excellent building blocks out there to get you started, like the 960 grid framework that already solve some of the more mundane issues.
- I find frameworks are harder to use in the beginning, I wonder if it's different for most though.ismith