In past years I have learned the most important languages for web development (CSS, HTML, JS, PHP) and I can create good-structured sites.
But an important part of web design is the images used for buttons, backgrounds, text, gradients… Also the main logo is a very important element in the layout of a website.
However, I dont know how to get started in that side of web design for developing good looking websites.
What tools should use for that purposes? Do you know good guides?
I have read one books and some guides about photoshop, but they are about graphics design in general and I am looking for a guide/books focused on web graphic design and also (if posible), focused on how to place these images correctly using css and xhtml.
PD: Sorry for the bad English.
Thanks!
I’m certainly no pro, and probably not even very good myself, but I think one good way is to just do it. The more you practice, the more you learn and improve, and your designs will get better and better.
As you are building sites, you’ll run into “problems” which you can then find answers to on the internet or on sites like stack overflow. It’s also useful to look at designs from other sites and try to see how they did it.
In terms of tools, you probably don’t need anything really fancy to get started. I mostly only use Paint.NET and InkScape. I try to use few images if I can.