Hi Creatives! I'm a graphic designer and looking into leaning web design and web development professionally. Any tips on where to start?
Do you have any recommendations as of which coding languaje I should learn or which online resources I could use to start learning and building up my knowledge from there?
I want to seriously become a proeficient web designer/developer so I am reaching out to this community for some tips on how to start.
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- Hey @Miranda Mora, General Assembly has a bunch of free workshops and talks to help introduce you to coding! Here's their next free workshop https://the-dots.com/events/free-intro-to-coding-class-online-with-travis-huang-senior-technical-program-manager-vungle-7153
- I'd start from HTML/CSS/SASS then add Javascript and SVG animation, if you're interested (to animate not only illustrations but also UI components). I've done the SuperHi membership too and I think it's great if you're coming from a designer background as it makes you understand what you can do (I can code, but this gives a different perspective on things and also keep you up to date).I'd also do Freecodecamp on the side: it's free and it's more focused on the code syntax itself.Back then I've learned a lot also from web resources like https://tympanus.net/codrops/ (I learnt trying to rebuild something I liked in a website :))
- @Miranda Mora I started off with the Foundation course, then did the Javascript for designers, Maths for creatives. In progress now is Shopify but I just become a member and now have access to everything! Woohoo
- Building (rebuilding) your own portfolio/website is a good way to start your journey .
- I was told by a neighbour who was a programmer that freecodecamp was really good to learn coding :)
- @Peter Wright thanks! I'll look into it
- @Luana D'Elias Thomas is there any specific course you really enjoyed?
- @Luana D'Elias Thomas great! Thanks. I was actually looking into SuperHi earlier today.
- @Kosiso Onuchukwu thank you so much!
- Hi Miranda - you could look into Webflow, which will allow you to design and build bespoke websites without needing to learn code.There's a whole skill to using it, but its a visual coding platform which makes it easier for designers to transition into web building.It's the route I went.
- Hi Miranda, I have done a few courses with www.superhi.com and it's given me a real insight into coding. They cover a good range too, from UX, foundation HTML/CSS/Javascript courses, to more advanced Javascript/React/Ruby on rails/Python/Shopify/Wordpress.You can use my referral code https://www.superhi.com/?r=luanadeliasthomas if you want!
- Hi Miranda,Since you already have a design experience, I will suggest you start with web designing later you can add web programming to it. For couses I will suggest you take free couses from Udacity, Freecodecamp, W3Schools, Coursera and for paid you can take a course from here https://www.appbrewery.co/. I am a web designer and a developer myself. I am also ready to share my experience if you need. Have a good time learning.
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