Webdesign

I am not a web designer, nor will I ever be, but I need to learn how to design web pages.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials on how to create good-looking web pages that's not captioned by a 12 year old boy or a man of Southern Asian descent?

(Honest to God and the Sussman, I am a CS man, but a friend of mine needs a favor.)

Just browse random sites that are related to the site you want to design.

Amalgamate their designs into your own. Pick parts that fit well, and just throw them together.

This is the absolute best you can do if you're not a designer. You'll never make something that looks good from scratch. I've tried and tried myself, I've even read books on color theory but in the end it was all a waste of time. Unless you've got a "designer eye" it's near impossible to pick up in a sane time frame.

http://www.whatwg.org/
http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/
http://www.w3fools.com/#what-should-be-done

Design? Just put <?php in the beginning of your file and start copying and pasting random shit.

http://method.ac/

Design for programmers coming soon
Our first course: design for analytic and logical thinkers.

``Coming soon''. It's been one year already, for fuck's sake. Will they ever get this ready? It'd better be good when it comes out.

One thing I found useful (when I was in the same position as >>1) was to browse the CSS Zen Garden ( http://www.csszengarden.com ) for a bit to see examples of how to use divs correctly, and also for some examples of general placements. A lot of them seem pretty over-engineered to me when I flip through them, but if you don't really know much CSS and don't want to spend a lot of time reading blogs by web developers, they're very helpful.

Design, like all other "art", is a copy-paste. To become a designer you need to practice plagiarism. I.e. you take existing work and adapt it for yourself.

>>7
You're stupid and wrong. An inane assertion is not an argument either, kiddo.

>>7
No.