How to become a professional web designer

How to Become a Professional Web Designer

Hi everyone, this time I have come up with this simple term which is a most sought-after profession, Web Designer and Web Developer You know, almost every single person who is planning to learn web development or is learning web development is mostly confused about it. Some feel web development is a simple concept of using HTML which was being taught in schools. Some find it very much complicated as it is dealing with servers, IP addresses, databases, etc. Few feel that if I can design a website appearance creatively, then I too can design web pages. And, some feel that only the concepts and motives behind a website are sufficient in creating a good website.

That's not all, even some are focusing on becoming a web developer only because, they heard from their peers that it is the best work that can make you earn a lot. Indeed, web development makes you earn a lot but this require certain kind of skills and knowledge as well. Without an interest in making creative designs and without knowing how things work, you can only create a dumb site, with very low followers and less output.

I think this is the only reason behind Facebook being popular despite its simple look and feel. Facebook is simple with many useful and powerful features that are making it popular worldwide. So, according to me, there are some of the basic concepts one must know and hone to make themselves a Web Designer or Web Developer. To Discuss it more clearly, I am defining its some important points:

1. Learn the Skills

There are some basic skills which you must need to know before becoming a web developer. The skills which are going to help you to design a site. The skills which will help you to provide decoration to your simple site. And, the skills which are going to add some interactivity to your site. 

• HTML5 – Provides Web site design and frame development
• CSS3 – Provides creative design and controls to the site
• JavaScript – Provides controls and validation with some programming concepts
• JQuery – Provides modern creativity and controls to the site

By learning HTML5, you are going to understand CSS animation, CSS transitions, JavaScript canvas drawings, and JavaScript DOM with different pre-defined APIs like Web Storage API and Geolocations API. 

2. Creation of Dynamic and Responsive Websites

Later there are certain tools which help you to create dynamic and responsive websites. You can use many tools which helps you to create complete templates instead of making each web page with basic codes. The skills include: -

• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• MySQL
• AJAX, and many more…
  

3. Learn from experts

For getting the proper ideas and perfect guidance, you can learn from experts as well. By surfing different sites and popular domains you can learn from them, what to use, and where to use. They have their experience with them and using those experiences they have upgraded their site’s appearance. And, by checking those styles and patterns motivate yourself to build one for you.

4. Get the right tool for the right purpose

There are many tools that are going to help you and create a website in quick and easy mode. Similarly, top professional companies also need people who have knowledge about these tools as well. These tools can help you to create a huge website with many pages in a few days with the help of some useful plugins.

WordPress

Drupal

Joomla

Bootstrap

Magento, etc

5. Understand the server

If you are willing to create websites for your clients or even for yourself, and you want to upload it to your choice of domain. You must have knowledge about the server, domain, and hosting. This is going to help you understand the domain, its subdomain, hosting space, secured links, and many more.

6. Understanding of UI and UX

Understanding of User Interface and User Experience helps you to create such sites which are liked by all. Any site builds on concepts based on User Interface principals are always user friendly and liked by all.

7. Practicing is a Must

Practicing your coding experience is the best way to improve your skills to become a good web designer or web developer. Once you have created a certain design, keep practicing it, and keep improvising it to make it as your skills. These skills will definitely bring better opportunities and appreciation as good web designers and web developers.

I hope you guys find it interesting and knowledgeable especially those who want to be a web developer or web designer. If anything in this blog, which you feel, needs improvement. You can suggest to me in the reply section. Don’t forget to mention your reviews to help me improve my further blogs.

Thank you,
Abhishek Paul