Best sites/books/whatever for learning website design?

[coolred]

I want to learn to design websites, but not sure where to start, and I don't think i am searching for the rigth thing, since I can't find many good tutorials on the web. I think I want to start with the basics by just using a text editor like notepad or whatever. Any help?

 

[Spacehead]

w3schools
I thought this was a good learning tutorial. It's a bit outdated but it explains the basics very well.

 

[screw3d]

Do you want to learn web design, programming, or both? Those two are very different but not exclusive from each other.. that said, w3schools as suggested is an excellent starting point. As for design, I'm not much of a designer so I don't know, other than naming a few web sites that I think have good design

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Do you want to learn web design, programming, or both? Those two are very different but not exclusive from each other.. that said, w3schools as suggested is an excellent starting point. As for design, I'm not much of a designer so I don't know, other than naming a few web sites that I think have good design

Hadn't really though of that, and not sure I know all the differances. I assume website design is choosing the actual layout and graphics that the page will have, while programming is actually writing the page so that it will look and work as it was designed to? Is that right?

If that is correct, I would like to learn both. I want to learn to program the sites, but also want to get in to the design and graphics of it at soem time as well.

 

[screw3d]

Yes, that's what I meant A lot of people dismiss both as easy jobs.. but you'll see that it's not once you get into it

 

[Atheus]

I assume website design is choosing the actual layout and graphics that the page will have, while programming is actually writing the page so that it will look and work as it was designed to? Is that right?

Well design would include HTML and CSS, which fall under the category of 'writing the page', so even if you want to be only a designer you will need to do some basic coding. This is not 'programming' though - Javascript on the frontend and things like Java and ASP.NET on the backend are programming languages. This is much more complicated stuff.