A web designer friend recently asked what resources I used to teach myself web design. I sent her the following list of resources which I used (and still use). She wasn't interested in WordPress (a shame, but I forgive her), so I excluded my WordPress-specific resources.
I also spoke about these resources at GRWebDev, a web development meetup in Grand Rapids, MI, on April 22, 2013.
If you have any favorites I didn't include, please let me know and I'll check them out.
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Non-training videos: An Event Apart videos
Here's a list of my favorite web design podcasts. I also have other posts about podcasts.
You can find book summaries here.
Local groups are a great way to meet others you can trade tips with. There are a lot on Meetup, but you can also find them by asking around or googling. There are a lot of WordPress meetups and conferences (WordCamps), and I'll bet you can find equivalents for your focus area.
Follow and interact with web designers you want to learn from. As you meet people online or offline, follow them on Twitter, follow their blogs, etc.
So good to see!
I've followed a similar route of learning web design, but have felt a bit embarrassed to say that I taught myself, and on a shoe-string. However, I have made some expensive mistakes, and not charged enough for a few jobs. But I put this all down to experience and part of the training.
In the long run, what does it matter how you learn as long as the end result is good?
Thanks for sharing the useful resources from where we can learn many new things about website designing and other things by looking the video tutorials on lynda.
http://www.w3university.co.uk was a good place for me when I started to learn how to write html and css code
Thanks for the additional resource, Henry.
Great article. I’d also highly recommend that you take a look at this list http://codecondo.com/best-10-websites-to-learn-web-development-for-free/, which has free websites to learn web programming.
Thanks for the additional resources, elisha.