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Asked: 2026-05-19T10:50:15+00:00

i have long wanted to be a web designer, self taught. My aim for

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i have long wanted to be a web designer, self taught. My aim for this year is to design a wordpress theme from scratch. i dunno where to start from.

learn photoshop, html, js, php, mysql in which order? where to get the learning resources etc.

what do i need to learn?

any advice will be hugely appreciated…

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  1. Editorial Team

    In building websites there are different disciplines. In a nutshell:

    • Designer. Draws the website, how it should look. Defines the style of the website. Uses mainly PhotoShop.
    • Interaction Designer. Defines where each feature goes and how it should work.
    • Client side developer. Writes client side code. HTML/CSS templates, maybe a bit of JavaScript, although there is a big difference between HTML and JavaScript and the skills you need. Maybe you should even consider HTML/CSS and JavaScript to different disciplines.
    • Server side developer. Writes server side code (PHP/ASP/…). Will probably need some SQL knowledge as well.
    • Database administrator. Keeps the database running. Actually not part of the web-building disciplines list.

    So, you need to think whether you want to be all these persons, or just one or a few of them. I personally so mainly PHP development and a little JavaScript. In work, I hardly do any HTML/CSS, because this is done by another guy. If you got a fellow that wants to build websites too, you maybe could check where each others skills lie. If you’re a programmer, you can focus on serverside and JavaScript, where he can build the lot in PhotoShop, think about the interactions, and build HTML/CSS. You will only need a little of eachothers skills for sparring, and you could build great things together because each of you has their speciality.

    If you need to do it on your own, and you haven’t got any of these skills yet, I would just start somewhere and at least try everything. Keep your learning projects simple, and don’t start mixing 5 of the names disciplines. If you want to start using HTML techniques, don’t mind tha fancy looks yet. Draw a few lines in paint and just pretend you got all these gradients and spiffy looks. With a bit of make belief, if you try one of these skills you don’t need any of the other ones.

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