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    Macromedia / Web Design for a beginner

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by zmdmw52, Jul 27, 2008.

  1. zmdmw52

    zmdmw52 Notebook Geek

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    Looking for good books/online resources (in form of articles); but particularly books or Web Forums for a beginner to Web Design. Ultimately, I would like to register a web domain & design a small, functional website for myself.

    Have Macromedia Dreamweaver ver 8 & guides using that program in particular would be of more help.

    PS    :
    Have Windows XP SP3, with Pentium 640 (Pent 4 HT, 3.20 GHz), 2 GB RAM on desktop.
     
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  2. CGSUN

    CGSUN Notebook Guru

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    I recall the Macromedia site used to have free tutorials and classes with developers, I remember this because some of our staffers took a Dreamweaver and their Imaging program course. It was quite in-depth, and worth a try.

    You could try the torrent sites.
    Or better still forums.
     
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  3. deputy963

    deputy963 Notebook Evangelist

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    Dreamweaver is a good choice. It creates decent code and it really helps learning if you can switch back and forth between the code view and design view.

    Here are some good books. You really want to learn CSS. It will save you tons of time and let you do cool stuff.
    Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS
    CSS Instant Results
    CSS Web Design for Dummies
    The CSS Anthology
    HTML the Definitive Guide
     
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  4. The_Shirt

    The_Shirt Notebook Evangelist

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    I picked up "Dreamweaver 8, The Missing Manual" from Amazon for around $25-$30. It has helped me tremendously...if you do the tutorial, it takes you step by step through building a complete website. I didn't do that, but it did help me design a site for work that is now up and running on our LAN, and the bosses love it...
     
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  5. Theros123

    Theros123 Web Designer & Developer

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    Frankly, if your going to use Dreamweaver to design and create websites, you'd better stop doing it now before you go pollute the internet with more poorly designed and poorly coded websites. Dreamweaver is a powerful tool, but it makes it way too easy for anyone to pick it up and use the built in generators to create invalid, horrible, crappy code.

    Like that other guy said above, if you really really want to learn how to be a web designer or developer, go actually learn HTML and CSS. That will teach you what you can do and what you can't do. Plus, its quite useful to know those two languages, as they are the foundations for the web. Don't just use a generator, you can't learn that way.
     
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  6. synic

    synic Notebook Deity

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    This. Pickup a CSS book or something, or watch videos on youtube. WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver don't really help you learn much :p
     
    synic, Jul 28, 2008
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