Where do I start web design career

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L1cache

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Hello everyone I need help....I'm not sure where to start.....I've decided to go for web designing as my future but confused on what the best approach to this should be.
I'm not planning on enrolling with any college......was hoping maybe sumone might help me with guide lines.
 
Well first thing I'd do is get access to a computer
 
Rethink enrolling for a B.Sc. or N.Dip.

You'll thank me 5 years from now.
 
...and then I'd ask you why you wouldn't want to enroll in a college or at the very least some sort of short course?
 
I'm in the web system field, as a front-end developer/designer. I would recommend that you go more into the web based system route as a start. I would start learning JavaScript, jQuery maybe some knockout.js to get familiar with some design patterns and some css libraries, namely the most popular Bootstrap. Write a mini system, anything you can think of. From there just start looking for jobs. There are several free-lancing websites out there to use :) Good luck.
 
Stop.

1. When you say "Web Design" - do you mean "I'm good with colours, images and layout and I poop logos for breakfast and in my spare time I like creating visually attractive things"

OR

2. When you say "Web Design" - do you mean "I like to figure out how bootstrap works and I optimise it over my coffee in the morning. "

Because those are 2 VERY different things.

1 is Design
2 is Development
Both are needed to create sites

Being good at both 1 & 2 is very rare.
Thinking you're good at 1 & 2 is very very very common and generally results in R800 websites.
If you were good at 1 & 2 then you wouldn't be asking this question, so you're not.

If you like 1 more than 2 then go read EVERYTHING at http://smashingmagazine.com Subscribe to their library and read EVERYTHING there. That should complete you.

If you like 2 more than 1 then go read everything at http://smashingmagazine.com anyway.
Google, find things like:
http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/
http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/
http://www.cssbasics.com/
Add in Javascript, Jquery, some php.
 
This too.
Do you prefer to code, link stuff to databases to produce applications...
Or do you prefer visual and graphics and want to make good looking websites?
 
L1cache said:
I prefer coding.....
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Cool, then you're wanting to be a web developer or web application developer... generally designers are the gurus who make sites look spectacular (though we developers are concerned with some aspects of design).
 
Welcome to Web Development.

Go read http://smashingmagazine.com
Go grab the latest .Net magazine and read through that, checkout their website too: http://www.creativebloq.com/net-magazine

If you don't have an internet connection at home, try get one.
If you don't have a pc/laptop at home, try get one.
Do simple projects, start building a portfolio.
Read up more about stuff like this ( http://wireframes.linowski.ca/2012/06/living-css-style-guides-pattern-libraries/ ), create yourself a small site and get once going.
Create a github account and put EVERYTHING you do, no matter how simple/small, on it.

Read some more.
Remember - if you don't want to go to some educational institute then you need to put in the hours by yourself. People going to tech/college/varsity have got 4+ hours a day of read and learning - you need to match that.
 
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