Are you a self-taught Web designer or formally educated?

This is the question comes out in my mind when I saw some of the web designer profile on the net. As I was browsing to his website, I have notice that he studied in a big university in the Philippines, He has a web design degree and has been on the web design industry for 5 years. Technicality wise, his website is okay and have posted clients website that he made. But the thing is, I am not convince the look and feel of his website. The header has no call to action or at least putting it somewhere else on the homepage. I am not mocking about his website because It's not ugly anyway but my point is, this guy studied website design formally but turns out to be a not so nice web designer at all. I don't consider myself as professional on this matter but I can see the difference between white and red on this.

Web design is my passion and I learned it by myself at home. I was a bigginer way back 2007 where I published my first website as a Philippines Web Design. Being a self-taught web designer is right choice and at the same time its tough. You will do a lot of research, browsing the tutorials on the internet study the other website on how they do it. On the other hand I was thingking of studying web design formaly in some university in Manila Philippines. But I change my mind due to what i have observed. That most self-taught web designers have a good skills in web design and their works are awesome! (well that's my own opinion) All you need to have is the passion to do it, practice and patience. Those who don't have this will have nowhere to go.

A website is a representation of a company online. The public can have a positive or negative perception about your products and services based on your website design. It is the first reason by which the nice website design is very important for businesses. Website design does not import simply because it helps you to establish a strong and positive image for your mark but also because the website design can really encourage people to take the desired action.

All the professionals who work in the field of website design understand that the visual ones can produce certain feelings in the people and can encourage them to take a certain policy. It is because cognitive processes are affected by the sensory stimuli. By the course of our lives, our brains will be conditioned to answer the logos, the signs, the colors, and the symbols in certain manners. A good website designer knows this and will benefit from this fact.

Take the red color for example. The red is largely accepted to mean the stop or the error. This is why when there is something false product during the opinions of a process on line usually come in red from color, often accompanied with a mark by exclamation. The red can also mean the importance. The red is employed to mark the important messages because the color is held easily outside.

The symbols also give the specific significance thus it is important to employ them correctly. The symbols are the visual signs that the assistance communicate messages with people. The false use of the symbols can cause confusion among people and can decrease the effectiveness of your website. The nice website design employ all the suitable police forces, symbols and colors to communicate the good messages with the public. website design implies to create a web site which supplements your efforts of hot marking. Do you want to be known as a company of recreation? Your website should exude a vibe recreation. Is your company implied in the businesses and the bank transactions? Then you do not want that your website designer put kiddy font to discuss your services. The good website design exceeds esthetics but also implies semiotics. Semiotics is a very important aspect of communication on line because you want that the people identify positive values and take positive measures in your site.

If you're going to design a website, make sure that the header will communicate with the surfers. This is very important because the header is the first thing you want to tell your user when they visit your site, and will catch their attention to read further.

Here are the different types of header design:

Here are some of the designers' philosophy that I encountered on the net. I thought of sharing it here though it has been published a hundred times even before this blog was created.

If you have something to share, please feel free to make some comments and post your philosophy as a designer.

Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. Erik Adigard

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. Charles Eames

Design’s fundamental role is problem solver. Fast Company, 2005

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood. Ivan Chermayeff

Good design is the most important way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors. Samsung CEO Yun Jong Yong, 2004

Graphics is the visual means of resolving logical problems. Bertin

A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel

Intelligent design itself does not have any content. George Gilder

Hi! My name is Clenn and I am a website designer.

Last 2 years ago, I  looked at my website which was created using embedded website builder on some site that offered free website hosting. And I  felt down as it never got finished because it looked so funny knowing that I am a graphic designer as well.

I tried to edit it with the use of Dreamweaver, but then shut it down in less than 3 minutes. It was very confusing, and I didn't know where to start. My friends and clients asked me if I know how to build websites, but my answer is a big "no" for I didn't even finish my own website.

Fortunatey, I came across with the "Dreamweaver Tutorial for Beginners". After I discovered the tutorial, I found it so easy to make websites. I didn't just only finish my website, I modified the whole site beautifully and it was working remarkably!

This took me about 32 hours of work.

I had different pages, galleries, and even put a portfolio page that showcased my graphic works. And the rest was history.