by the way, i was looking at HNs html and everything seems to be made out of tables. tables absolutely everywhere. can anyone tell me why that is?
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#32I am currently watching this:
https://designcode.io/ui-design
Gives some good insights into Figma and Colors and designing
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#33I am currently watching this: https://designcode.io/ui-design Gives some good insights into Figma and Colors and designing
It’s hard to argue with that person’s design skills. That website is beautiful, functional and performant
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#34Train like you fight, they say in the military.
Why not come up with a small (personal) project and let reality be your guide? If the work at hand raises a specific question, you can try to answer it immediately by searching online. Everything you'll learn this way is grounded in reality.
What's the point of training in something that you aren't going to apply anytime soon? There's no end to collecting and reading information. It's unconstrained.
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#35Train like you fight, they say in the military. Why not come up with a small (personal) project and let reality be your guide? If the work at hand raises a specific question, you can try to answer it immediately by searching online. Everything you'll learn this way is grounded in reality. What's the point of training in something that you aren't going to apply anytime soon? There's no end to collecting and reading in…
We used to say: train hard, fight easy.
Re: Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?
#36Train like you fight, they say in the military. Why not come up with a small (personal) project and let reality be your guide? If the work at hand raises a specific question, you can try to answer it immediately by searching online. Everything you'll learn this way is grounded in reality. What's the point of training in something that you aren't going to apply anytime soon? There's no end to collecting and reading in…
We used to say: train hard, fight easy.
Good one. Or what about: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
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#37Hack Design is a design course as well as a curated list of resources and tools: https://hackdesign.org/
It's not limited to web design (though resources relevant to web design make up a large part of the course) but addresses design fundamentals such as colour theory and typography, too.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
w3schools is famously a dumpster fire, and frankly I think codecadamy is overrated. I'm not a designer, I can't give a good constructive answer to the question, but I know the answer is never w3schools.
I've seen posts on HN that described some questionable choices and some issues with w3schools, can't say they were wrong.. but I have learned, and re-learned many things with w3schools and used it many times to solve a quick 'how do I do X' with css or whatever.. mainly because they were in top search results for a while - but every thing I used them for worked - and they have interactive examples you can fiddle with…
I think I've read their JS array methods reference page about 100 times in the past before it became ingrained.
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#39Take a look at Kevin Powells Youtube Channel. Besides the tools and techniques used there, he stuffs a lot of other useful information in nearly every video...
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#40by the way, i was looking at HNs html and everything seems to be made out of tables. tables absolutely everywhere. can anyone tell me why that is?
I think it’s the old school way. I took a “Basic Web Design” class in high school so I could master the art of MySpace page customization and we were taught to use html tables for most layout/positioning that’s now down with CSS. Tables are so much easier to work with than flexbox and the result is pretty consistent across browsers and window sizes without having to fuss as much. Maybe I’m just cranky and old but flexbox is the worst.