Web Design Tools for Beginners

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Tutorials

W3Schools.com is one of the most comprehensive sites for learning web design and related web technologies. It has well designed tutorials and hands-on activities for learning everything from the basics of web design through more advanced web development and programming. Beginners should start with the HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) before moving on to more advanced topics, like JavaScript, DHTML (Dynamic HTML), and AJAX (a JavaScript-based technology).

HTML Editors

Adobe Dreamweaver is a very powerful graphical HTML editor, and an industry standard among professional web designers. It integrates with other Adobe Creative Suite applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, facilitating web design workflow. Microsoft Expression Web is web editor, and part of Microsoft's Expression suite of design software. It is less expensive and easier to learn than Adobe's products, but also less powerful. Learning the basics in either of these suites is easy, and both can handle advanced web design. For those on a budget, Nvu and PageBreeze are good graphical editors. They are easy to learn, and available free of charge.

Drawing and Image Editing

Paint and drawing programs are a must-have for any web toolkit. GIMP and Inkscape are popular, free, well supported tools. GIMP is a powerful photo editing and painting program, similar to Adobe Photoshop and nearly as powerful. Inkscape is a vector drawing program similar to Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are industry standard among professional web developers, but very expensive.

Generators

There are hundreds of generators online that automatically create buttons, backgrounds, charts, icons, color palettes, and much, much more. Colors on the Web offers several tools for choosing, generating, and analyzing colors and color schemes, as well as learning about color in web pages. ButtonGenerator.com and CoolText.com offer free generators for making custom buttons, logos, and other graphics.

Testing

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) offers validation tools to test for errors in HTML, CSS, and other web design languages. Any hand-edited code should be validated. A second important test is cross-browser testing. Most beginners make the mistake of only testing their pages in their favorite browser. Every browser renders web pages a little bit differently. BrowserShots.org and BrowserCam.com provide online browser testing, saving designers from needing to download and install dozens of web browsers.

Other Tools

Filezilla is an FTP file transfer program that supports most web designer upload needs. There are endless sites offering free website, CSS, and other templates, such as FreeWebTemplates.com and the JavaScript Source offers cut-and-paste scripts for adding a variety of special effects and interactivity to web pages, as well as JavaScript and AJAX help and tutorials.




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[somjith vs]

very useful information.......

[fil]

Super useful thanks

[jollyllp]

Every great web developer starts with HTML. From there comes an array of tools that every developer can use to create great websites.The basics would be a text editor and an image editing software. But why be content in using those two when there are available tools that can expedite not only your coding speed but also help you organize and learn new things?

[Dhanishta]

Useful information you have posted,I prefer w3schools to start learning web designing.

[Willington]

Well i do really agree with the statement and yes Every excellent web designer or a website design service begins with HTML. From there comes a range of resources that every designer can use to make excellent sites. The fundamentals would be a written text manager or a picture modifying the application.