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I was developing my website so was searching for some forums that can help me to find new ideas hope to find some new information about web designing with the help of your forum.

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Try to use WordPress itā€™s easy to use, there is a lot of guides and big community and also a lot of free plugins or what you need for your site.

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Whilst I can understand why someone would suggest using Wordpress, realistically, all that is going to teach anyone is how to install and manage someone elseā€™s software bundle; what you wonā€™t learn is web design. Are you looking at how to build websites from scratch and write your own code, or are you specifically interested in the pure design aspect of it? Either way, get yourself a good grounding in HTML and CSS, and use that to identify what it is the interests you most - learn how a basic website is constructed and use that as a platform to build your knowledge on. And read, when youā€™ve done that, read some moreā€¦

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This is just from my observation but Iā€™ve seen many designers use Bootstrap and create many beautiful design. Iā€™m not saying Bootstrap is the best css designer tool but itā€™s among the most popular. Look at example from

https://bootswatch.com/

if youā€™re just looking purely from design point of view then check out
http://www.awwwards.com/

I imagine most of them are built with bootstrap

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$string = 

;
$search = array('Wordpress', 'software bundle');
$replace = array('Bootstrap', 'framework');
echo str_replace($search, $replace, $string);

OK, Iā€™m not a Bootstrap fan (or Wordpress for that matter). :smiley:
But there is no substitute for learning how to use and structure html/css yourself.
Having done so, you may find the aforementioned redundant.

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By all means, Iā€™m not going to stop someone from reinventing the wheel. If you can make a prettier wheel then Iā€™ll be more than happy to copy and reuse it myself :slight_smile: For me, Iā€™m definitely a fan of using other peopleā€™s code that makes me do less :sunglasses:

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Hi @Mark_Smith3, if you have 4 minutes check out this great introduction; another rather enlightening one is the CSS zen garden.

@SamA74 +1 :-)

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What helped me a lot in the past were the examples from @PaulOB . No Bootstrap or Wordpress involved just straightforward html and css and all very clear. Just take a look

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I use weebly. Itā€™s a simple and very user friendly if you are interested in getting a site up quickly. Cost is minimal as well. They have a lot of themes to choose from and they have a customer service team available to help answer any questions you may have.

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You need help for site designing or development? Both are different. But both are same if you are not a ā€˜technical guyā€™

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I usually browse around and find websites I really like. And then I ā€œstealā€ their general design.

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I have to agree with what @IS Scyborg has shared as I have been designing websites in WordPress in the past and I find it very user-friendly since all the things you need are already provided in this platformā€¦:slight_smile:

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Start with HTML and CSS and learn the basics from the ground up. Once you have learned a few of the basics, get started on designing your website - you will only learn by doing. Sketch it out on some paper then try and code the website using HTML and CSS for your styling. Once you master that, you can maybe move onto some PHP. Once you have an understanding of HTML, CSS and PHP, you will really appreciate how Wordpress works and much more equipped to fix issues when things go wrong.

Hope that helps :smile:

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