Do you dream of putting websites together that individuals around the world appreciate? Do you wish that your day job consisted of developing within the world of the web? It sounds like your ideal career choice would be that of a web designer! Before jumping in headfirst and handing in your notice at your existing job to become a Web [...]

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is an essential skill for any Web Designer. Why? Because even though WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors can enable anyone to create a website without touching programming code, the code created is often messy and difficult to maintain. Knowing how the HTML behind the website works is your first essential skill [...]

Once upon a time a Web Designer was forced to create all of the styling for their website using HTML code. This was relatively simple to do; HTML provided tags such as <h1> for a heading and <p> for a paragraph of text, not to mention the <font> tag that allowed web designers to specify the colour and size of [...]

There are many languages useful in the development of websites, but if you want to be a Web Designer PHP is one of the most essential. Before jumping headfirst into PHP, or ‘Hypertext Pre-processor’, though, it is first worth familiarising yourself with HTML as PHP is usually embedded within this markup language. Once you are up to speed with the [...]

As a Web Designer the scripting language JavaScript is not absolutely essential, but without it you might find yourself struggling to add the interactive elements that you desire to your web pages. Before delving into the details of this, the most powerful scripting language on today’s World Wide Web, it is important to recognise that JavaScript has nothing to do [...]

The World Wide Web is an ever-growing entity, with more and more individuals desiring to have their own piece of online real estate advertising their business, service or simply their thoughts. As a Web Designer it is important to recognise this, and utilise any tools that can help you to produce excellent web pages quickly and simply, web pages that [...]

Say the word ‘Database’ and your initial reaction may be to think of a large table of data, perhaps names and addresses, stored within a program such as Microsoft Access. As a Web Designer however, you are far more likely to have contact with the relational database management system known as MySQL. A MySQL database can be created on your [...]

Altering the appearance of the text on your website is a great way to draw a visitor’s attention to your key sections of content, or simply to make a page look less like a single block of text. As a Web Designer you will need to understand how you can go about changing the style of your text to create [...]

As a Web Designer it is very important to know how to style your websites to make them look aesthetically pleasing, as well as keeping all of the pages on your site constant. CSS is an excellent tool to achieve exactly that process, and it can be linked in with your existing HTML code to make your website design look [...]

HTML is an incredibly powerful markup language that you can use to put together your very own websites. Although other scripting and design languages can certainly add additional functionality and aesthetically pleasing elements to your web pages, any Web Designer should still take the time to learn this all important language. Without it you will always struggle to grasp exactly [...]

If you are interesting in becoming a Web Designer then you might like to have a read through some of the recent articles that have been added to the Web Designer Category of this blog where you can read articles that provide such information as What do you need to know to become a Web Designer?, What is HTML?, What [...]