How did you start?

ilikechikin · Posted: 2/28/2004, 8:30 am Post subject: How did you start?

What made you want to start web design? What did you use to help you get on track? I got real bored and started searching on the internet and came across http://davesite.com and started with basic html. i then bought a book which gave me most everything else i know. the rest of my knowledge comes from http://webdevforums.com and http://p-lance.com/forum .

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I got a job working for AOL as technical support. A few of the guys that I worked with where into web design. That's how I got interested. I learnt HTML from www.htmlgoodies.com and then found webmaster-resources.com (now sitepoint.com). I went from there.
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I think the reason I started was because I thought it was interesting and wanted to check it out. Smile

I didn't really read any books my first 3 years. Just plugged away and learned by experience.
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Burning_Cyclope · Posted: 2/28/2004, 9:53 pm Post subject:

I just used Front Page for a long long time, and when I decided I wanted to learn HTML, I openned up the HTML tab on front Page, and looked at the code I had made. I learned all the basics in literally 5 minutes, just by looking at my own code.
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Matt · Posted: 2/28/2004, 11:10 pm Post subject:

It was really my mate Paul which pushed me into this area, I had dabbled with html before, but it was really him that got me going...
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JohnMcK · Posted: 2/29/2004, 1:26 am Post subject:

Necessity - the mother of invention. I was already an experienced programmer and multimedia graphics designer. I needed a website and didn't like what was being offered to me.
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ilikechikin · Posted: 2/29/2004, 5:46 am Post subject:

one of my friends kind of got me into it. he knew how to do a little and he told me the basics and then i shot off. now i'm the one teaching him

Zipher · Posted: 2/29/2004, 4:09 pm Post subject:

I started out on Geocities WYSIWYG program, then developed from that. Then someone directed me to HTML Goodies and I learnt quite a lot from that.

I've just bought a book on PHP so I'm going to try and conquer that next Surprised

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ilikechikin · Posted: 2/29/2004, 5:14 pm Post subject:

thats my next plan too. i gotta wait til the summer i think so i have time away from school

Josh · Posted: 3/1/2004, 6:35 pm Post subject:

I played around with things like Geocities and Tripod. Then I realized that I wouldn't be able to do anything but create boring stuff if I kept using those. When I started everything I made was all text. Then I bought Frontpage. After that I began to learn to make graphics. Pretty much everything I learned was just from looking at other sites, forums, and asking friends. I have some books, but just use them for when I get in a jam or need inspiration. Next I would like to learn to code PHP.
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