The road-map to becoming a professional web designer.
December 13, 2006
I’ve been asked this many times:
‘What are the steps to becoming a professional web designer?’
To make a long story short, you need web design skills (listed below) and lots of practice to develop your skills.
A NERD’S ROAD-MAP TO (BECOMING A) PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGNER
- Learn HTML
- Learn CSS
- Learn basic design skills – how to make a page look good: color combinations, white space etc.
- Learn how to produce images for use on the web. Photoshop or something similar will have to learned.
- Build a portfolio of websites.
After you’ve mastered the techniques and technologies of web design, you will need to show your skills – that’s where the good portfolio comes in.
That means it is time to build websites for yourself, friends and strangers.
Practice makes perfect … with each new site that you build, and with each new ‘client’ that you work with, the better you will become.
ABOUT WORKING WITH PEOPLE/CLIENTS
You may have not considered it, but being able to work well with people, is just about as important as having good coding skills!
… You need to learn how to communicate well, because it is crucial if you want to get the job done.
I will get more into that in another article.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
