Web Page Design school class?

Question

I'm starting year 9 this year, and have chosen all the electives I'm good at, which is everything involving I.T. and everything involving sports, seeing as how I excel at both.

anyway one of the subjects I picked was web page design, because I figured that graphics would have to come into it somewhere, and I don't like too toot my own horn, but I'm better with graphics than nearly everyone I know..

But.. I kind of need help with what I'm going to do, my friend said he's willing to teach me things, but that might not be enough.

I need to know what type of coding people think might come into a normal web page design class, whether it be php, html, java, etc.
and what programs and tutorials to take that will potentially help me with this, because school starts in a week or two, and I'm use to being ahead of the class.

Answer 1

If you want to self learn or get some help from your friends then first get your hands on HTML and CSS. These two are the basics of web designing. Then you can get into Javascript, XML, DHTML, Flash even PHP, mysql , ASP, MSsql(these latter are the server side scripting languages).



Also being good at graphics designing may not be enough to make a good looking web page. You need to know the colour combinations that suites well and doesn't create stress.



Try learning from the basics and also see how other web sites are made like

http://www.freewebtemplates.com/

http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/



I like making simple looking web sites with graphics just for star on the Christmast tree. You can check out with eye candy website to standard designed websites.

Answer 2

All of your examples are widely used in web-based environments. Flash, Java, html (xhtml), css (huge for large websites), php etc.



And quite honestly, web site design generally doesn't have anything to do with graphics design. It's the website designers job to use the graphic designers art within the website and make it fluent. Unless you're capable of doing both, they're typically not done by just one person. There is a ton of team collaboration in corporate environments to make sites easy and efficient to navigate, including the use of graphics to help users understand the site more.

Answer 3

I would suggest that frontpage is not the best page building software out there, All WYSIWYG page building tools tend to generate code a little larger than a hand-written webpage, But Frontpage is probably the worst (unless you count Ms Word). I would suggest that Macromedia Dreamweaver is probably the best, but there are others out there.