Its a difficult point where you have to decide your career, choose a path that will lead to your destiny. But if you somehow choose to become a web developer, if you are interested in developing websites then you have to stick to your goals. Computer science is a vast field and once you love what you do then it becomes interesting to learn more things and tools. Its not an important work to get started from a university or institute. There are thousands of resources online that will help you can start learning the basics to the advanced from your home.
Well there is a lot of difference between a web developer and a web designer. Web designer works on the front end of the website, layout, look and what is visible to the user. It includes the basic html, css, javascript and jquery. On the other hand a web developer works on the back end of the website. What happens when the user login to a website, when a user clicks on the button. It includes working with databases, fetching and extracting data from the databases. The languages that work in the back end are JavaScript, php, mysql for database, .net and others.
There are three rules that you will have to keep in mind when learning programming:
Practice, Practice and practicePractice makes a man perfect so you have to practice programming and never give up until you reach your goal and it will start becoming more interesting. Here i am going to share with you some of the free websites that will help you start designing and developing your own websites.
If you decided to build websites than you will have to learn the basic language that is HTML & CSS. For learning html and css from the basics i will prefer you to start from the very best website w3schools.com. This website will teach you the basics and provide you the online editor for checking your code. Understand the basics and check what the code does by clicking on the try it yourself button. At first this will take time for you to understand the language of websites. It will be great for you if you spend more time learning the basics of html and css from this websites.
Well this is not the end but the beginning, you will have to look for different websites for more resources. Now its time to move to a next website where you will learn from video tutorials. Here is another best video tutorials that will help you grab the basics and build a small website. Learn html and css in 30 days by tutsplus.com. These video tutorials are available free on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgGbWId6zgaWZkPFI4Sc9QXDmmOWa1v5FThis video tutorials will help you build your first website. Here are some of the other free websites where you can learn html and css
You can also search on youtube for video tutorials. Now this all will help you built a website from scratch and after going through all these resources you will be able to design a website comfortably.
This will help you built a website that can just be viewed on big screens but very difficult on mobile devices.
There are three main types of websites, static websites, dynamic websites and responsive websites. Static websites are those which you can not interact with. you can just look for the information that you need. Dynamic websites are those which interact with the users. You can customize and make changes. Responsive websites are those which can be viewed on both mobile devices and on the wide screen computers, its sets itself according to the size of the screen.
Until now you only learned to make static websites using html and css. If you move a little further you can make responsive websites using HTML5 and CSS3. There are thousands of resources which will help you creating responsive websites, but here i am going to share with you some of the best free resources. First go through the w3schools html5 and css3 section to understand the basics. After that i recommend you to go through this tutorial.
This tutorial will help you built your first responsive website and you will be able to convert your previous websites to responsive. Below are some of the more free resources that you should check
- Learn HTML5 with Edcast
- Dive in to html5
- Microsoft Virtual Academy
- HTML5 & CSS3 for absolute beginners
- HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials
So far you have learned to create websites and make it responsive for mobile devices. Now further you will have to add interactivity to your website. what happens if a user click on a button or if a user click on the login button. Javascript and jquery are the advanced languages that will make interactivity to your websites. You can animate things on your websites, for inserting a beautiful slider on your website. First go through the w3schools javascript and jquery sections for garbing the basics and practice by implementing the code on your text editor. Now go through the codecademy javascript path:
https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript
some other free resources are:
After learning all this now you are a complete front end developer and you can built your own websites and ready to start a job. In the next article i will share with you some of the best resourses for learning back end programming. I hope this guide will help you and i would like to hear from your about the resources.
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