webdesign

[tapi0n]

This summer I'm going to set up a little webserver at home and start focussing on webdesign.

Now my question is if anyone knows any good forums to sign up at. I'm looking for forums which are helpful, loaded with info and with a nice community. Sort of like this one, but revolving around webdesign.

Mainly looking for php-, perl-, JS forums. Perhaps a place for the visual aspect of it all too.

Thanks in advance :)

[Gerontion]

Not quite what you were asking about but I found ActionScript.org Forums (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/index.php3) pretty useful when I was getting my head round AS3. And Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/) seems to have an answer to every question which it's possible to ask.

[Macskeeball]

Just so you know, web design refers to what you would call the "visual aspect of it." Web development refers to writing code. That should help you with posting on such forums.

It's been several years since I regularly did this sort of thing, so unfortunately I don't know what the current places to go are. It's not a forum, but I seem to recall Jeffrey Zeldman and his A List Apart (http://alistapart.com/) site being widely respected, at least back in the day. He co-hosts a podcast called The Big Web Show (http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow) with Dan Benjamin.

W3Schools (http://w3schools.com/) was a site I liked for web development tutorials.

[timZZ]

Web Design or Web Development?

These are completely two different job types with different requirements.

Will your web server be communicating outside of your network?

If so ... make sure you do your reading both on security practices for O/S, Apache (Assuming you will be using web-server), Php Server, MySql Server and Php best practices.

Else the outside world might have fun with it.

[tmette]

These aren't forums, but good blogs I liked to look at every day:

Smashing Magazine (http://www.smashingmagazine.com)
Nettuts+ (http://net.tutsplus.com/)
Six Revisions (http://sixrevisions.com/)

[tapi0n]

Ye I know they're both different things, and I apologise but it's a mistake me and some of my friends make because of a class we had in school.

I actually mean both, but more leaning towards coding. I already have some experience in php, perl and actionscript. But I know there's so much more I can learn about it, so I want to really get into it more.

Thanks for the links I'll definitely have a look at them.

[conradin]

w3schools is great.
http://www.w3schools.com/
There are others too, but it depends what your doing. Php has their own forums.
http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/ is the w3schools forums.
sometimes I go to w3schools just to uses the tryit! page to insert my own code.
But, thats cuz i use gedit to write most pages.



This summer I'm going to set up a little webserver at home and start focussing on webdesign.

Now my question is if anyone knows any good forums to sign up at. I'm looking for forums which are helpful, loaded with info and with a nice community. Sort of like this one, but revolving around webdesign.

Mainly looking for php-, perl-, JS forums. Perhaps a place for the visual aspect of it all too.

Thanks in advance :)

[timZZ]

The best approach for people I teach is to provide them a project.

During this project they can make use of existing open source application etc.

IF you have a goal this will encourage a critical / strategic thinking.

It is a common fact that people generally do not retain written material, when not used in a practical sense.

Repetition is the most helpful tool.

Making use of other peoples code allows you to see, how others solve common problems.

I hope this helps.

[lykwydchykyn]

For development, I tend to take questions to the devshed forums. My questions rarely go unanswered there.

[Dry Lips]

Links about webdesign, in addition to the ones mentioned above:
(I agree with Macskeeball that "w3schools" and "A list apart" are
very good resources)

A little about everything (including scripts and coding):
http://webdesignerwall.com/

Css:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/
http://www.csszengarden.com/

[samalex]

This summer I'm going to set up a little webserver at home and start focussing on webdesign.

Now my question is if anyone knows any good forums to sign up at. I'm looking for forums which are helpful, loaded with info and with a nice community. Sort of like this one, but revolving around webdesign.

Mainly looking for php-, perl-, JS forums. Perhaps a place for the visual aspect of it all too.

Thanks in advance :)

If you're looking for a well rounded webdesign community I highly recommend V7 Network (http://www.v7n.com/forums/). I actually just found it a month or so myself, but it's an awesome group of folks that talk about web design from both a commercial and technical standpoint. Some of the folks on there are more geared around making money then making great sites, but there's still some great conversation on there, much like Ubuntu Forums.

Sam

[linuxforartists]

Here are some forums I like:

Sitepoint (http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/) - the best-known forums I know of.

Digital Point (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/) - search engine optimization (SEO) is the most popular topic, but there are active threads in lots of other areas too.

Web Hosting Talk (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/) - The most reliable place to get recommendations on web hosts.


These aren't forums, but good blogs I liked to look at every day:

Smashing Magazine (http://www.smashingmagazine.com)
Nettuts+ (http://net.tutsplus.com/)
Six Revisions (http://sixrevisions.com/)

I second these recommendations. Six Revisions is one of my favorite places for good articles on web design. I like their articles focusing on the business end and working life of web designers.

More blogs I like:

Unbounce (http://unbounce.com/blog/) - company blog for a firm that sells landing-page software. The emphasis is on "conversion rate optimization" which is getting users to do some action, e.g. click on "Buy."

KISSmetrics (http://blog.kissmetrics.com/) - company blog for a business that sells web analytics software. More of a focus on Internet marketing.

Hope these help. Good luck with your web design!

[tapi0n]

Thanks for the responses everyone :) I'll make sure to check them all out once I got enough time to do so