I have photoshop and dreamweaver and was wondering the best way to learn how to start making webhosting designs. I would also more then likely sell just the psd's for 25 dollars a piece does that sound reasonable?

There is a long way before start selling design services or even templates. If you are good in drawing then get a program like Photoshop and use create images that someone would turn into code. If you want to do the coding then you do not need to have advanced skills in designing the images and objects.

You could take a class to help you learn photoshop. An another way to learn is just to keep messing around and keep working at it. Like everything else practice is needed. When you get pretty good you could sell design's for more then 25$ a pop. Hope this helps, feel free to ask me any questions. :agree:

I took a photoshop class and know how to use it but is webhost design and logos different from average web designs? I will post up some of my work later to see what everyone thinks.

I think this forum itself and Sitepoint are great and full of resources. Did you try them?

JTamburino - I have a question for you! I am trying to design my first website under the domain name www.bravadg.com. Unfortenately I cannot get my home page to come up when I type that into my browser. I get errors about the page being forbidden.

Instead I have to type http://bravadg.com/Index.html before anything shows up.

I noticed you had http://www.jtamburino.com/ and it works. How can I accomplish that? Is it file management via my cpanel?

And No, I do not have the pages for my tabs uploaded yet so if you click on them you get blank pages.

I think this forum itself and Sitepoint are great and full of resources. Did you try them?

In the design tutorials I never found anything specific on designing hosting templates... I can do whmcs integrations and wordpress skins but my hosting ones are ugly. Takes practice I guess.

Believe it or not there are tons of youtube videos out there, whenever i am learning something new i will usually jump onto youtube and check out what they got.

I would suggest lynda.com It's a great resource for learning material for someone who wants to be a designer. There is a monthly fee for the service, but I do feel it's worth the investment.

Good luck!

scriptandstyle.com - plenty of tutorials
css-tricks.com - half-owner of the upper website, a so called css guru.
davidwalsh.name - the other half part owner, a mootools, javascript guru that you can get from some cool ideas for website effects and UI accessibility.

Believe it or not there are tons of youtube videos out there, whenever i am learning something new i will usually jump onto youtube and check out what they got.

Youtube is a great source for learning to make templates. You could start there, or search for tutorials, and download free templates and see how they are structured and how they work.

try youtube, they have good tutorial there

For making designs in earlier stage of your learning is not that easy. It can be done if are a pro and to become a pro its not that difficult as other people says.

The best way is to join either some classes or find stuffs over internet that can help you learning such courses.

Dedication is what you require if you think not to invest money in some classes and learn it over internet.

Lynda.com has some amazing video tutorials and I think it runs about $25 per month. It can teach you the basics and is a great place to start!!
Good luck!
Cheers
Alice

Try smashingmagazine.com and also net.tutsplus.com

I visit this site regularly

I've been using photoshop and dreamweaver since i started on designing, and before I created designs I do draw it first to a paper then after that I can now work it out on photoshop. I got info. and ideas on the internet and they got a lot of tutorials.

Thanks everyone, I got a few designs finished and I will be giving them away for now to a few members of a forum I was once apart of. Maybe sometime this year I can learn enough to design + sell.

Your best bet is going to be developing your own style and sense of what you like in other websites - only then can you look at Photoshop tutorials and know how to apply them to your designs. What you need is inspiration above all - the organization of colorful boxes in Photoshop will come on its own... and in time...

Some great sites you should check out and *ACTUALLY READ/FOLLOW*!
- http://smashingmagazine.com/
- http://cssmania.com/
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/network-posts/ <-- collection of several site's feeds... a great place to find tutorials & random inspiration
- and last but not least, any page on: http://www.google.com/search?q=css+galleries

Get yourself a copy of Adobe Photoshop, depending on how much you want to invest into your learning curve, you want to be looking at 7.0 + and ideally, CS 1,2,3 or 4!

Then scour a search engine to look for tutorials that your comfortable following.

I used to download free templates, then pull the layers apart to see how everything came together.

Start simple!

Thanks everyone for your replies I am using all of these sites and have learned alot. Still trying to find how people are making sites like these : http://www.duirwaigh.com/ just amazing. Tried some wordpress themes which are pretty easy though.

Although realism is not my forté - That type of design could be replicated semi-easily in Photoshop using Brushes (http://www.brusheezy.com/), Stock Images (http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php) and F (http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/photoshops-filters/)ilters (http://www.tutorial9.net/photoshop/photoshops-filters/).

If you need any advice or further help, don't hesitate to add me on MSN.

Check out TemplateTuts.com or psdtuts.com really nice tutorials there.

If you are talking about learning from the very beginning then I did it with the video tutorials that come with Dreamweaver. Additionally i learnt extra through YouTube videos.

It can get pretty frustrating when you are starting out but just keep going and you will learn a lot :)

Good Luck!

I've always found w3schools.com a good starting point when it comes to the (X)HTML/CSS coding side of things.

Teach-ICT.com is good too :)

Good Luck!

Search for web design blogs -- there's a lot of great content out there. Off the top of my head, Smashing Magazine, Web Design Ledger and all the Tutsplus websites.

There is no easy solution. Learning how to design takes lots of time and energy!

-Tons of helpful tutorials and forums that will supply all the information and resources you will ever need for free...

$25 is cheap and if you think that's all your designs are worth then just skip it. You need to design something valuable and charge accordingly.

Have a look at the portfolio design sites to see what quality you should aim for.

Have a look in my sig for more info...

Start from your own self. What do you think should be your next step?

Try the W3Schools Online Web Tutorials they seems pretty helpful.