Hi everyone,
It seems that all of you are masters in web designing techniques over here. M interested in designing a lot. But i am not at all aware about the basics of it. Will it be profitable to join some institute or something..?? Or i should start learning on my own through surfing..?? M confused.. where to start and how to start

Hmm, I would start with learning [X]HTML or/and CSS.

Try to look up tutorials on pixel2life or other sites

It will take some time, but when u understand it, its easy

Regards.

If you go to an institute, you may find yourself FAR behind in the class, NOW I know of community colleges that have web design classes (maybe that is what you are talking about), but I found the best way to learn is through experience + reading books/tutorials... http://www.w3schools.com is the place to check out if your a beginner, search around in the HTML, CSS areas of that website, then once you become a novice in web-design, come here more often and read some tutorials and start learning some programming languages such as javascript, php etc etc.. You can do anything you set your mind too. I started off using angelfire web hosting lol could barely get anything to work right, now I'm programming PHP and still learning stuff, just took time and patience. Never give up.

Thanks a lot. .. I'll go through it .... and will get back for further queries....

Thanks for your support.. .. I have started going through w3schools already.. As per your say i shouldn't join the institute.. Well even I think i will be the most dumbest in the students.. But what about other languages.. Can't i learn those over institutes.. As i think I am not a self learner..M not going to give up in any way.. but still languages.. and i heard that its very difficult to learn flash and some other things in it.. so what about them???

If you want to learn actual programming languages, i would recommend starting with PHP. It is very easy to work with and interpreted, so it's not as strict as most compiled languages. You can also embed it into HTML, which gives you added incentive to learn it over a compiled language.

If you're interested, you can read the following topic for some random information:
http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17298

I'll have to agree with rc on the PHP. From there maybe head on to C, Really depends on what you plan on doing though.

I taught myself really. It's better to experiment yourself, try - then fail. Try, then fail again. Try once more, and get it nearly right... Ah the joys!

To be webdesigner first of all you have to learn html and css.
this is the basic of webdesigning.
Practice is the one thing which you have to do. Because practce make a man perfect so that do paractice to be perfect in webdesigning.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

But practice does make perfect. Without practice, you can never fail. Without failure, you can't learn what you did wrong. Without learning what you did wrong, you can't learn how to do what you originally failed to do, correctly. Therefore, if you "practice perfectly" you will never actually learn anything. Instead, you will just continue to work under the assumption that what you do is perfect and can never be done better.

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You learn something, how not to practice bad, and how to win without flaw.

Just be creative and try to do something different dont just copy anyone. If you have a idea work towards it even if you dont get success instantly. You need to have patience for long term benifits.

I think what path you take also depends on what your ultimate goal in web design would be. Is it something you just want to do for fun and some freelance, or are you looking to get a full-time job?

If you're looking to work for a company, they might be more stict about requiring a degree. I was a Multimedia major in college and got my degree that way which has led me to my jobs working for larger companies so that is at least where I'm coming from. However, that also depends on the company since I've worked with guys who were just really skilled and it didn't matter that they didn't have a formal degree.

I will say that even though I got my basic knowledge from school, I really didn't "learn" everything I do now until I was actually in the work place. I guess what the real benefit of going to a university or institute is that they can give you a good base understanding of techniques and can teach you more about things like audience analysis and the more abstract concepts that are harder to learn on your own. But the real bulk of what you do on a day to day basis comes from your own learning and job experience.

Well there are Lots Of Good Tutorials are Present on Internet,I have Learned a Lot From This Tutorials Try This Hope It'll definately Helpful For You also.

Very inspirational

Yes, the best way to learn is from your own experience. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO MESS UP. You will. Always backup your files before making any changes, and don't be afraid to try something you're not familiar with. This is how you learn, just play with settings in CSS and position elements differently in your HTML and you'll find tons of different things you can do with clever html placement and css properties.

I've been designing for about 4 years now and I love just messing around in photoshop then seeing how I can lay out my psd mockup into html/css