gotta make new website - question
- Started
- Last post
- 16 Responses
- yovkov
I'm designer, with no developing skills (just some flash/ac3) and want to make my new website by myself, so i want to learn some programming.
The site is about clothing and apparel, simple galleries/info + customizer (choose own colours and designs).
I'm wondering what path to take and what tutorials to read:
flash - easiest for me, know some stuff, but as we know 'flash is dead'
html5 - ???
some other thing
- ukit20
Yeah Flash is long gone for a site like that.
I would look into WordPress for your site, while learning some basic HTML and CSS.
- utopian0
hire a web developer!
- pressplay0
tutorial to get you started with basic html and css
http://www.htmldog.com/
- ernexbcn0
No Flash.
- dbloc0
Flash Fuck Yeah!
- Ctrlx0
Flash all the way
- attentionspan0
I doubt you will have fun time coding it but good luck
- randommail0
If you're making the move to become more of a web designer/developer then by all means invest the time to learn the latest web technologies.
But just my 2 cents ... I never understood why you'd want to code your own websites if you weren't a full-time web designer or developer. For example, if you design brochures, you surely wouldn't want to then go on press and run the machinery yourself. You'd learn just enough about the printing process to go on press-checks to ensure a good outcome.
Doesn't the same thinking apply with websites? Find and partner up with a good web developer. No?- Big difference in that you can freely learn code as the next step, but you won't be buying a printing press just to learn...?MrT
- Beeswax0
start with wordpress. that's the only thing that you need.
wordpress=(css,html,php)
you need to learn css mostly, so that you can modify html and a little bit of php if you need to modify funcionality of a template, but most likely you don't even need that since there's always a plugin for what you want to accomplish.
- animatedgif0
why bother?
Just partner with a developer if you don't already know what you're doing.
- lukus_W20
Unless you want to retrain for a career in development and have a few years to spare, hire a developer!!
It's ridiculous to assume you can match the skills of a developer in a few weeks, for the sake of a single project.
- mikotondria30
There's no reason you can't learn to 'develop', html, css and php are the most easily learnable things, with learning curves that mean you can get encouragingly good results fast. Of course you can spend your life continually learning and improving, but they're only tools for - what you do - design. They're tools to design user experiences. If the extent of your 'design' career is just pushing pixels for how a website will look, then you're missing out on half the story. Get stuck in, it's not hard, honestly. Using your left brain will only reinforce and encourage what you can do with your right.
Wordpress will get you easy results in a very short time, but it's no substitute for learning properly from the ground-up. You'd struggle to pick apart the code, styling and templates that it produces until you're at least mid-level. Sure you could make simple, obvious changes, but you won't be in control and it would be very easy to make a mistake you didn't understand and have to learn white hot, which is not entirely pleasant. Although can be effective.
- mikotondria30
If you were fine with actionscript, php should be no biggie for you, neither should javscript or jquery.
Get the hang of floating and clearing divs :)- Get your float on!
Display inline block if your a hipster and find floats too mainstream.Hombre_Lobo
- Get your float on!
- yovkov0
thanks for the advise!