Post by ecklyps on Aug 14, 2009 13:11:20 GMT -5
I've always thought a thread like this would be really helpful and interesting for people to try new and exciting things. So the idea here is to post links to tutorials which will feel are very useful and easy to follow. By tutorials I mean Photoshop, Dreamweaver, CSS, Visual Basic, C#, HTML, Illustator, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Fireworks...anything like this! I'll start by introducing you guys to this:
www.tutvid.com - A site which has video tutorials for Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Bridge and Go Live.
Create a complete CSS layout
ActionScript 2.0 Drop Down menu
The whole site is useful if you want to go about creating websites.
For an assignment I completed in college, I sent out a few questionnaires to some freelance web designers as I was studying employment trends and prospects within the media industry, concentrating on Web Design. Someone who responded was Darren Wilkinson, Owner, Red Boffin. A question I asked was:
What have you done to get to where you are now? What qualifications have earned? And what course/enrolment program did you do?
When I started in 1995, the guys who had set up one of the first private servers gave me one side of A4 with the html tags printed out. From then on I have been self taught. If you want to work freelance, you don't need qualifications or go on a course: www.w3schools.com is all you need to start.
I haven't actually looked at that link yet, but I'm sure it'll be very useful.
Another question I asked was:
Do a lot of your newly discovered skills require self-teaching during your spare time?
A different web designer this time, named Dave Woods gave a very interesting answer:
Nearly all of the knowledge I have in CSS is self taught and things like accessibility, usability, SEO techniques and analytics are things that I've picked up through experience. There are obviously courses for things like these but I've always found that a good mixture of trial and error, RSS feeds, newsgroups, books and forums can teach more than any course as long as you're willing to take each bit of advice with a pinch of salt as there's a lot of out of date and just plain wrong advice on the internet so I'd never take anything I read as gospel unless it's from a reliable source or it's backed up with evidence.
So clearly from the first hand advice, we need some trustworthy sources if you're going to post anything. Obviously as I stated earlier on, it doesn't just need to be Dreamweaver or everything to go with designing websites. Video editing, Image manipulating etc, even hand drawing are all welcome! So help a few others along their way and post useful resources that may have helped you in the past.
Photoshop tutorials would be your best bet. Download the Photoshop trail and have a play around with the tools, then move on to learn more advanced things. Video tutorials are definately a good way of learning as you can take things in so much more easily. But yeah, just type 'photoshop tutorials' in google and there's usually sites where people submit their own.
www.tutvid.com - A site which has video tutorials for Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Bridge and Go Live.
Create a complete CSS layout
ActionScript 2.0 Drop Down menu
The whole site is useful if you want to go about creating websites.
For an assignment I completed in college, I sent out a few questionnaires to some freelance web designers as I was studying employment trends and prospects within the media industry, concentrating on Web Design. Someone who responded was Darren Wilkinson, Owner, Red Boffin. A question I asked was:
What have you done to get to where you are now? What qualifications have earned? And what course/enrolment program did you do?
When I started in 1995, the guys who had set up one of the first private servers gave me one side of A4 with the html tags printed out. From then on I have been self taught. If you want to work freelance, you don't need qualifications or go on a course: www.w3schools.com is all you need to start.
I haven't actually looked at that link yet, but I'm sure it'll be very useful.
Another question I asked was:
Do a lot of your newly discovered skills require self-teaching during your spare time?
A different web designer this time, named Dave Woods gave a very interesting answer:
Nearly all of the knowledge I have in CSS is self taught and things like accessibility, usability, SEO techniques and analytics are things that I've picked up through experience. There are obviously courses for things like these but I've always found that a good mixture of trial and error, RSS feeds, newsgroups, books and forums can teach more than any course as long as you're willing to take each bit of advice with a pinch of salt as there's a lot of out of date and just plain wrong advice on the internet so I'd never take anything I read as gospel unless it's from a reliable source or it's backed up with evidence.
So clearly from the first hand advice, we need some trustworthy sources if you're going to post anything. Obviously as I stated earlier on, it doesn't just need to be Dreamweaver or everything to go with designing websites. Video editing, Image manipulating etc, even hand drawing are all welcome! So help a few others along their way and post useful resources that may have helped you in the past.
Photoshop tutorials would be your best bet. Download the Photoshop trail and have a play around with the tools, then move on to learn more advanced things. Video tutorials are definately a good way of learning as you can take things in so much more easily. But yeah, just type 'photoshop tutorials' in google and there's usually sites where people submit their own.