LockandLoad wrote I'm learning off of Codecademy right now, and im really enjoying it! Only major question, to even become successful in web designing, should i look into doing graphics too? Reason I ask this is cause all the banners and stuff, just look around on this site alone, so much stuff/banner ,logos, all that. Should I do that too or have someone do all that stuff?

Yeah if you plan on designing your websites, along with coding, you need to know some fundamentals of graphic design. I've been studying graphic design for almost a year, and was interested in it before I began coding. You will need to know color theories, along with layout management (probably the 2 most important). Obviously it's not necessary, but it will certainly help with designing and structuring (organizing) content on your page. Just about every site has been touched by a graphic designer(most cases they make a mock up of the site) then the developers and programmers code it - in regards to major sites. As a freelance, or small firm developer, knowing principles of graphic design will certainly help you. A good book would be Adaptive Web Design. It's better to do it all yourself, in my opinion. That way the site is completely your vision, and communicating/managing the concepts of a designer, and coding your site will be a bit of a hassle, along with costing money.

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Soo... i finished ALL the HTML/CSS lessons on Codecademy, and i still feel like, i mean, should i just go ahead and create a website now? im thinking of making a rough draft, just hosted from home (to test it) than transfering the index.html to an actual host (such as godaddy) am I taking the right approach to this?

LockandLoad wrote Soo... i finished ALL the HTML/CSS lessons on Codecademy, and i still feel like, i mean, should i just go ahead and create a website now? im thinking of making a rough draft, just hosted from home (to test it) than transfering the index.html to an actual host (such as godaddy) am I taking the right approach to this?

Sorts depends.. You don't need use a host to test your site's functionality. Everything should work except server side includes (until you learn work arounds), if you used them. I would say don't upload it to a server yet, because they cost. Just test it's functionality and keep adding on to it. Make it a project for you. Try creating a full site for yourself, or redo your school's site, or anything. I recommend getting a program like Dreamweaver or Expression Web also.

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LockandLoad wrote Soo... i finished ALL the HTML/CSS lessons on Codecademy, and i still feel like, i mean, should i just go ahead and create a website now? im thinking of making a rough draft, just hosted from home (to test it) than transfering the index.html to an actual host (such as godaddy) am I taking the right approach to this?

Sorts depends.. You don't need use a host to test your site's functionality. Everything should work except server side includes (until you learn work arounds), if you used them. I would say don't upload it to a server yet, because they cost. Just test it's functionality and keep adding on to it. Make it a project for you. Try creating a full site for yourself, or redo your school's site, or anything. I recommend getting a program like Dreamweaver or Expression Web also.

Ive been doing some stuff, but got stumped :/ idk how to fix the problem i have