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Duckarmada
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Hey guys. I'm probably going to take an internship at a recording studio in austin and website design skills are a plus. I don't know a whole lot about that side of things so, if you could point me in a good direction to start, that would be great. I imagine, they would want a built from scratch site, or someone that can make updates and edits to their existing site. http://www.5thstreetstudios.com/home.html

ie. how do I start learning this stuff?

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The best of the best. These got me where i am today.

 

http://css-tricks.com/

http://net.tutsplus.com

http://www.killerphp.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/

 

Also I would recommend buying a really nice theme and look at how they did what they did. Play with it, break it, make something new, but have fun!

http://themeforest.net/?ref=blazedd

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The best of the best. These got me where i am today.

 

http://css-tricks.com/

http://net.tutsplus.com

http://www.killerphp.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/

 

Also I would recommend buying a really nice theme and look at how they did what they did. Play with it, break it, make something new, but have fun!

http://themeforest.net/?ref=blazedd

 

No to buying a theme....if u want to be a good designer, u are better off just trying to replicate something. Themes promote the use of web hacks. Web hacks are stupid.

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Themes promote the use of web hacks. Web hacks are stupid.

Since when did a website someone else put together automatically promote "web hacks"? When I was still a young grasshopper this was almost eye opening to me. I took apart a Forum design and made a homepage design to match it and from there I was born into the world of web design. I'd like to know what you think a "web hack" is.

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Any time you have to employ an IE hack, or crappy css hack in order to create something; that is a web hack.

 

Premade themes, 9 out of 10, contain web hacks. You can absolutely do anything without web hacks (with the exception of transparent png's in IE6 which requires an IE6 plugin that can be added to the page via an IE6 conditional). It is better not to tare a site apart, but rather mock it up yourself just by looking at it. If you feel the need to look at an element's styles, I insist that you use firebug for firefox to inspect the element instead of taking a premade theme and rearranging things.

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Alienating older browsers for personal sites is fine. Alienating older browsers for large sites is bad. Why deny part of your audience because you can't program well?

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