Archive for the ‘website design’ Category
I want to do website design for a career, where should I start?
If you are starting from scratch and want to learn practical skills quickly, check your local Yellow Pages for Career Schools / Career Training. You will find technical schools that teach Web design in there (if you find schools for cosmetology, dental hygenists, etc. in the category, you’ve found the right section).
However, you might want to get started by investing $20 in "Building A Web Site for Dummies," which walks you through the process.
I am trying to get into website design by using dreamweaver. What’s a good computer Mac/PC? Perferably laptop?
The trouble with PCs is the operating system. Buy a new PC laptop and you’ll be stuck with Microsoft Vista. So between those two choices, definitely Mac.
But personally? I’d go with a Linux system (probably OpenSUSE, though Ubuntu is popular too) and then use NVU for the design work and ActiveState Komodo Edit for the coding and The Gimp for the graphics design (all free software by the way, and all available for Linux, Mac, and Windows)
And by the way you don’t even have to take my word for it… OpenSUSE and Ubuntu are both available for free online… just burn the CD and boot… no need to install anything on your hard drive to give it a try. Ubuntu will even mail you the CD for free if you don’t feel like downloading/burning.
I don’t like my new widescreen lcd monitor. It makes images look wide and its seems hard to work with for website design? Would a regular monitor be better?
Make sure the desktop resolution matches the native resolution of the monitor.
If you run non-wide images fullscreen then they will get stretched. however this is true for any image that doe not match the aspect ratio of your monitor. If you put an image of a 6 by 4 photo – 3:2 aspect ratio – on a 4:3 display then it is going to get stretched vertically.
As for whether it is good for web-design, that is up to you and how you use it. Think on this though, a lot of people are getting widescreen monitors. Do you want your web pages to look good on those monitors or bad?
I’m currently living in Georgia. There is some colleges in here that offer 2 year or 4 year degree for website design. I heard that most website designers study by themselves at home. Is there any difference between having 2 year or 4 year degree?
Earn a 2 year degree then transfer to a 4-year-university.
Not time for learning complicate html or other porfessional website knowledge. Is it any easy way to do website design yourself? As long as to insert texts and images are good enough for designing.
You can simply convert a homepage(HTML file) from either Microsoft word/Microsoft PowerPoint.
That means you can design a website yourself as long as you know how to use Microsoft word/PowerPoint.
p.s.
Other editing software you may find it helpful:
Microsoft publisher
Microsoft front page
Macromedia dreamwaver
I’m looking for a web design company that is inexpensive, but will design a website for me that is really high quality. Does anyone know of one?
The problem is that you are looking for quality without paying for it. Instead of looking for a company that will make you a template website that looks cheap and that doesn’t suit your needs, hire a student designer. They are more willing to work for little money while producing a high-quality product. Seek them out at your local design school. Here is a step-by-step process to create your website for cheap:
1.) Hire a college student in design.
2.) Have the student create PhotoShop mockups of your pages
3.) Send these files to a service that codes the website for you (you just have to provide the psd files). I have not had experience working with these services, but here are a few that I know of:
http://www.cssninjas.com/
http://www.psd2html.com/
Here is a list of 10 (don’t know how reliable these are): http://www.psdtohtmlreviews.com/
4.) Then get your domain and hosting through a provider, I would recommend GoDaddy for their ease-of-use/customer care.
That is probably the cheapest way to get a website made that is customized, yet not too expensive.
Now, on the other hand, if you are looking to sell products from your website, have any sort of social networking components added in there, then you will need the assistance of a company or hire another college student experienced in programming.
I’m trying to find easy to understand, beginners information about website design and HTML. I need recommendations on helpful resources such as websites, books, journals etc. Any help would be great. Thanks!
www.w3schools.com is the best online resource. My favorite book is HTML and CSS for dummies (full color). Make sure to get the book that is has both HTML and CSS (not two seperate books). it is the best for explaining how to make a website.
Hi I was wondering what I should pay for website design. I’ve got a video home page, 3 pages of copy (done already), a blog page and forum, and a shopping cart page. The design would need to be a Professional corporate Site.
My hosting company has the tools so it’s just the design and expertise to put it together.
What would be a reasonable ball park price for this? How many days work might it take?
When I do web design for people there’s a lot of factors I consider. For example, your site may be pretty basic, but you also want a forum and blog, things that will need to be implemented in other ways (to make the updating easy on you). I normally start with some basic layouts in Photoshop and continually run things by the client back and forth until we come to a final design. If the client responds quickly to my emails (and that’s honestly pretty rare—people are slow), the entire thing can be done within 2 weeks or less. For a site of your proportions I may charge $500 or so, but price is completely dependent on the person doing the designing.
I need to creat a single page website design and need some help to give estimate on this.
The client will provide their own logo, and I need to design 5 identical icons for this single page site. The client want to see about 2-3 different template designs.
What would be the reasonable quoate for this job?
If it’s not too complicated, I would charge $15 per icon, about $50 per template design and another $50 to implement the one they select.
Or, $200 for the whole thing. But, I’m worth that much. How good are you?
I need to learn how to design a web-site. I am planning to start this as a hobby and if all goes well, maybe even start a side job as a web-designer. What type of program should I learn? Is Microsoft FrontPage still good to use or is it no longer up-to-speed with other leading web-designing programs.
What other types of programs are out there that will help me with website design. Do you think Macromedia is a good choice? I know it’s a bit steep in price but I figure if I am to invest the time to learn the ‘difficult’ program, time is money, why be shy on one and not the other.
What about Adobe? Do they have a web-designing software?
Please share your thoughts. I really need the help.
Adobe (previously Macromedia) Flash, Dreamweaver if you don’t like writing html, and Photoshop