I began my journey on the W3CSchools website, a Google search for "HTML tutorials" lead me there rather quickly and it's simple to understand format had me on my feet in no time, I was using <p> and <table> tags within 5 minutes.
After a few hours I began to get bored and wanted to create some really nice designs so I downloaded Dreamweaver, I had heard great things about the software and after torrenting it on thepiratebay along with an activation key which worked I began my journey in to the grand clusterfuck which is a beginner designer using Dreamweaver.
I began to output some quality design (or so I thought) and despite the fact that everything was black and white on my website, I was proud of it and began to show all my friends (I was about 14 at the time) what I could do!
After that I searched for "Best web design" (again using Google) and realized that, to be fair, I was quite crap. I practiced and practiced, learning CSS in the process (also on the W3CSchools website) and soon enough, there was colour and cool looking styles popping up all over the place, my website looked like a blind clown trying to put on its makeup over a heavily tattooed face.
To be honest though, looking back after 5 years I can honestly say that it wasn't W3CSchools (who I still credit with supplying me with the base knowledge I needed) who made me the designer I am today (though to be honest, I'm much more proficient in the back end) it was time and iteration. Almost no one starts out with all the skill they require and I was certainly no wunderkind, it was the 3,000 terrible websites I built before the one I built last night (which in 30 more websites time, I will look back on as a horrific disaster of colour and style, no doubt.)
After a few hours I began to get bored and wanted to create some really nice designs so I downloaded Dreamweaver, I had heard great things about the software and after torrenting it on thepiratebay along with an activation key which worked I began my journey in to the grand clusterfuck which is a beginner designer using Dreamweaver.
I began to output some quality design (or so I thought) and despite the fact that everything was black and white on my website, I was proud of it and began to show all my friends (I was about 14 at the time) what I could do!
After that I searched for "Best web design" (again using Google) and realized that, to be fair, I was quite crap. I practiced and practiced, learning CSS in the process (also on the W3CSchools website) and soon enough, there was colour and cool looking styles popping up all over the place, my website looked like a blind clown trying to put on its makeup over a heavily tattooed face.
To be honest though, looking back after 5 years I can honestly say that it wasn't W3CSchools (who I still credit with supplying me with the base knowledge I needed) who made me the designer I am today (though to be honest, I'm much more proficient in the back end) it was time and iteration. Almost no one starts out with all the skill they require and I was certainly no wunderkind, it was the 3,000 terrible websites I built before the one I built last night (which in 30 more websites time, I will look back on as a horrific disaster of colour and style, no doubt.)