What study to Web Design

Hi Felipe,

I think you're right that there's not as clear of a path for learning design, and that O'Reilly's books are more development focused. Some design books that might be useful to you are:
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Designing Web Interfaces (or the Designing Web Interfaces Master Class video)

Another book that might be helpful (and which is available to read free online) is Designing for the Web.

I think that the things that you want to learn are the principles of graphic design, graphic design for the web, typography and fonts for the web, and how to create web graphics. If you try searching for specific topics like that, you may get better results than just searching for web design, which usually is a mix of development and design.

These tutorials might give you a good place to start:
http://psd.tutsplus....-design-theory/
http://www.1stwebdes...asics-elements/

And some good websites and blogs that you might check out are:
A List Apart
Smashing Magazine
mezzoblue
SimpleBits

For creating graphics, logos, etc., I think it will help to pick an application, like GIMP (which is free and open source) or Adobe's Fireworks, Illustrator, or Photoshop. Once you've chosen which application you will use, you can search for tutorials specifically, like "creating a gradient in GIMP", "creating shapes in Illustrator", or "creating logos in Photoshop". Also, when you know which application you're using, you might look for books on that application. O'Reilly's Missing Manuals or One-on-One books might help in learning a new application.

I hope this helps!

Best of luck,

Rachel James

Hi Rachel

Thanks a lot for you answer, I now understand better how to start looking and also know about good websites that can help me in my "journey" =]

If you don't matter answer again, i got a new question, do you think I can use GIMP has a, let say, good photoshop alternate?

Thanks again

I think it's worth giving the GIMP a try. I've never used it for creating graphics, but I have found it to be a good alternative for photo editing.

Here are some discussions comparing Gimp to other applications:
http://graphicdesign...r-buy-photoshop
http://graphicdesign...pe-over-illustr

Here are some tutorials and lists of resources that could help you to get started with the GIMP:
http://gimp-tutorial...websitetutorial
http://fwebde.com/we...te-design-gimp/
http://naldzgraphics...-for-designers/
http://www.makeuseof...er-on-a-budget/
http://sixrevisions....ou-master-gimp/

Adobe usually offers 30 day free trials of its applications, so you could probably also try out Fireworks, Illustrator, and Photoshop too, to see what's the best fit for you.

Thanks Rachel =]

If you want to have a good chance to work in web design you have a lot of work. Don't worry, it's nice work if you love web design. It's true, you have to learn XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, Java, Flash and CMSs and the list may continue, depending on where you want to stop. You can find more information on these writing websites, I am sure you'll find them all helpful. Good luck!

The best learning method is by doing it your self. Just think of what you want to do and than Google for it or ask on forums/blogs. Anyway, these are the most important languages for front-end design:

1.HTML
2.CSS
3.Javascript (Jquery library)
4. Download Dreamweaver as it will save you 99% of your time in coding

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