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<h1>Web design Thread!</h1>

<h2>What is webdesign?</h2>
Quote from: wikipedia
<p>Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design; authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all. The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing mark up. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.</p>

<h2>What falls under webdesign?</h2>
Web design isnt just coding and typing into a notepad and POOF! Your website is there. No, not even close. Even photoshop goes under it. Where do you think the pictures on website come from? They are usually made by webdesigners. Javascrip, PHP and CSS are also vital in webdesign. Altrough you can make a decent tnough website with just HTML and CSS.

<h3>The hell is HTML?</h3>
Basicly the stupid stuff I am including in this post with the arrow thingies. Thats pretty much HTML. HTML is fairly easy and not that big. However if you make a website with HTML only its going to look like stuff. Seriously, don't do it. Anyways lets just post the wikipedia article here.
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<p>HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup language used to create web pages.[1] Web browsers can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a markup language, rather than a programming language.</p>

<h3>The hell is CSS?</h3>
CSS gives style to your website, makes stuff look cool 'n stuff. Can go from placing elements in a certain position to giving your text a nifty color.
Ehh, yeah. I suck at explaining things so im just going to put the wikipedia file article here.
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<p>Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Although most often used to set the visual style of web pages and user interfaces written in HTML and XHTML, the language can be applied to any XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL, and is applicable to rendering in speech, or on other media. Along with HTML and JavaScript, CSS is a cornerstone technology used by most websites to create visually engaging webpages, user interfaces for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.</p>

<h3>The hell is javascript?</h">
I know like loving nothing about javascript except in can be used in allot of thing, including webdesign. Im not going to bother trying to explain the what it is since I barely know what it is.
Quote from: wikipedia
<p>JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language. It has been standardized in the ECMAScript language specification. Alongside HTML and CSS, it is one of the three essential technologies of World Wide Web content production; the majority of websites employ it and it is supported by all modern web browsers without plug-ins. JavaScript is prototype-based with first-class functions, making it a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. It has an API for working with text, arrays, dates and regular expressions, but does not include any I/O, such as networking, storage or graphics facilities, relying for these upon the host environment in which it is embedded.</p>

<h3>The hell is PHP?</h3>
I have no loving idea tbh. Its used in almost every website.
Quote from: wikipedia
<p>PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. As of January 2013, PHP was installed on more than 240 million websites (39% of those sampled) and 2.1 million web servers. Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the reference implementation of PHP (powered by the Zend Engine) is now produced by The PHP Group. While PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, it now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, which is a recursive backronym.</p>

<h2>So, How can I start webdesigning?</h2>
Webdesign is pretty easy once you know the code. You barely have to buy any progrems, honestly you can make a website in windows notepad. Windows notepad. Altrough I reccomend getting a better text editor. Notepad++ isn't that bad, altrough I prefer Sublime text editor. I really recommend it. You can get proffesional web design programs like adobe dreamweaver but that stuff is expansive. I tried it out but I still prefer sublime tough. For image editing I recommend using photoshop. But if you don't want to spend the money paint.net will do just fine. If you want some audio just get audacity, stuffs free and good.

Recommended programs
Notepad++
A very good text editor used by many people world wide. Includes a Tab interface, Syntax highlighting and folding, multi-language support

Subline text
My personal favorite text editor. stuffs just cool man, just get it. The only downside is you have to pay $70 for "continued use". Just get your eyepatch and do what you gotta do.

Photoshop
No, not a market for photo's. Adobe photoshop. I have nothing bad to say about this really (except that adobe throw arround every function in every update)

Paint.net
An alternative to photoshop, but free. Its very simple and doesn't have many tools tough.

Audacity
When you want to edit dem sounds.

Where can I start?
There are a ton of website to start learning. The best one is W3Schools. You can learn everything about webdesign here, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Bootstrap, Jquery, etc... I reccomend watching some youtubes before starting to see how it actually works. Will update this section later.

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« Last Edit: October 25, 2015, 05:48:12 PM by espio100 »

neither audacity nor paint.net are really related to web design
those are two different fields. which, sometimes, can be slightly related to web design, but not an actual part of it
and photoshop is mostly the same, except it's pretty commonly used for wireframing, but I doubt that's what you added it for

PHP is also not web design...
PHP stuff should go in this thread
arguably, web design could too, and it's certainly where I'd put it

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The best one is W3Schools.
no
codecademy is better for learning the basics. and for a more advanced reference, the MDN is amazing

Web design is actually the term where you make the media. Web development is the coding n stuff iirc.
PHP is used in a ton of websites. This forum for instance. Almost Every website where you can log in uses PHP. So I wouldnt say it isnt web design.

I totally forgot codeacademy. Codeacademy is also a very good place to start learning. Never heard of MDN magazine tough.

Web design is actually the term where you make the media. Web development is the coding n stuff iirc.
what?
PHP is used in a ton of websites. This forum for instance. Almost Every website where you can log in uses PHP. So I wouldnt say it isnt web design.
I know what PHP is. and it is not used in almost every dynamic website. a lot of them, yes. but not "almost all"
here's a list of some big websites and the languages they use
notice how few of them use PHP
Never heard of MDN magazine tough.
where did you get the idea that it's a magazine?
« Last Edit: October 25, 2015, 06:26:01 PM by Foxscotch »

i had to make a design for a website last year in my web design class. they never actually made us code it, though, despite teaching us how:



there was more pages of course, but ye. it was fun.
looking back at it, it feels kinda amateur, but back then, i loved it

what?I know what PHP is. and it is not used in almost every dynamic website. a lot of them, yes. but not "almost all"
here's a list of some big websites and the languages they use
notice how few of them use PHPwhere did you get the idea that it's a magazine?
Amazing. Magazine. forget I  cant read.
Anyways my point is that PHP is part of webdesign.
i had to make a design for a website last year in my web design class. they never actually made us code it, though, despite teaching us how:



there was more pages of course, but ye. it was fun.
looking back at it, it feels kinda amateur, but back then, i loved it
Looks actually p cool. Have you tried coding it in your free time?


Anyways my point is that PHP is part of webdesign.
except no it isn't
just like Python isn't. or Java. or C#. and so on

web design is web design and server-side programming languages have nothing to do with design
looks like java is the most common
that list is just for big sites. PHP is definitely the most common one in general, unfortunately

except no it isn't
just like Python isn't. or Java. or C#. and so on
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PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development
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Literally the OP and wikipedia article.

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Literally the OP and wikipedia article.
did u know that "design" and "development" are two different words? i mean i know you're not a native english speaker but

PHP is a seperate scripting language that works in part with HTML
However its Server sided, IE you need a intepreter to compute the PHP data on the server and have it displayed  on a client browser
It adds interactivity to a site, but by itself isnt a design language, its more of a backend thing.
« Last Edit: October 26, 2015, 07:38:31 AM by Becquerel »

did u know that "design" and "development" are two different words? i mean i know you're not a native english speaker but
I just like
Said that in one of my previous post

I know like loving nothing about javascript except in can be used in allot of thing, including webdesign. Im not going to bother trying to explain the what it is since I barely know what it is.
I have no loving idea tbh. Its used in almost every website.
then why the forget did you even bother

<h3>The hell is javascript?</h">
I know like loving nothing about javascript except in can be used in allot of thing, including webdesign. Im not going to bother trying to explain the what it is since I barely know what it is.


Learn Javascript.