For those who are standing at the verge of making their career choice and build a future is often in a hurry to not just learn but to finish the learning as quickly as possible and start earning money. I am not telling that is a bad thing. But, investing a month or two extra in something that is going to be with you lifelong is not a bad investment. Web designing as a career is a great choice but you need to make your basics very clear and build a foundation which is very strong.

If you are joining one of the reputed web designing training institute, they will have a course for 3 to 4 months to make you competent enough to face the IT world with the required skill set. Let get started with what exactly you will learn in that time span.

1) Basic Web Designing Concepts (10 days)

Before moving to the advanced principles and designing tactics, grasping the basics is mandatory. The basic of web designing includes learning about what is a static page? What is a dynamic page? What exactly are the principles of web designing? What about the layout of the web page? Things to do and not to do in web designing.

The deeper you dig about the web designing concepts, the better you will learn to design without any glitches. Designing trends keep on changing but the basic concepts will remain the same. Even though you are enrolled at some nice institute teach you every bits and piece, never forget self-learning. Watch the tutorial videos or read books or have a conversation with fellow designers to know new things.

2) CSS, JavaScript, and HTML (1 month)

Learning three things in one month can fry your brain. But, what do you think if you are placed in one of the top companies post-training, you will be given just one project to handle at a time? If that’s what you think this job and career is about, you are mistaken. In the IT world, the web designer has to multitask and do multiple projects which is why the training institutes train you to do so.

Compared to the JavaScript, HTML is a bit easy as it is the formal language and format specifications. Now, about CSS, it is a complex thing to learn and have certain browser compatibility issues as well. Well, a combination of these can help you achieve several web page effects. Learning the basics would be useless if you can’t put them into actual action.

3) Master the Web Designing Tools (15 days)

Being a web designer means you had to have a great grip over the best web designing tools. Let’s make a list of what are those tools:

Photoshop

It is an image processing software developed by Adobe. It helps the designer to manage the pixels of the image, edit the image, and draw them as well. It is not limited to the above-mentioned things, there are others as well like text, images, graphics, videos, publishing, and many others. It is one of the most professional tools for designing accompanied by the fact that it is a bit complicated.

Sublime text

It is an editor which has a really elegant interface, quite smooth operation, automatic syntax highlight, and rich plugins. There is IDE but for the ones who are on the verge of getting started, learning and implementing it is complicated and break your confidence.

Mockplus

It is a web page prototyping tools and the good news is it is easy to learn. The drag and drop feature will make simple interaction very easy.

4) Design Your Website (1 month)

It won’t be of any use if all the knowledge you have gained can’t be put into the practical use. So, once you are done with the learning, start implementing. Do a whole project on your won and I bet there are several difficulties you will face. This is where you transform yourself from a designer to a good designer. Bring as many queries as you can and ask your trainer to show different ways to solve them. This can be time-consuming but live project training is still a great way to implement your learning and still learn more.

5) Learn About the Important Elements

There are six principles which make a design a good one. Knowing them is important but knowing when they changed and what is the new one is important as well. I can help you introduce you with these key elements but constantly tracking them is your job.

• Color
• Graphics
• Balance
• Typography
• White space
• Connection