Learn Web Design

[mb1552]

Hello Mc-Market!
I am interested in learning real web design. (No that editing templates and calling it your own) Basically here's the story. I'm taking web design in school right now that includes HTML5 and CSS. Nothing to where your website can be that interactive such as PHP and JavaScript.
Here is some information to consider before recommending me stuff:

• I am 13 and in the 8th grade
• I'm passing Web Design with a
  
  & passed my CIW Certification test with a 93% (Meaning I'm not a stupid 13 year old.)
• I am looking to learn more HTML5 CSS PHP and JavaScript (and apply it all)

Where can I find the tools to get this knowledge efficiently.

Current Ideas:
Follow School path and work my way into college.
Find a website that can teach me this stuff on my own.
*Open to more ideas*

Please specify why your way of learning it is a good one!

 

[sycoinc]

Check out http://www.codecademy.com/ they have a good set of tutorials introducing you into html,css and javascript.

Reffer junior's / those wanting / clients to learn in my IRL job (website designer / developer) to this as a starting point

 

[Satelliting]

Like sycoinc said, CodeAcademy is how I learn almost all my languages at first.

 

[Jack]

Hello Mc-Market!
I am interested in learning real web design.
to where your website can be that interactive such as PHP and JavaScript.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_is_the_mother_of_invention

If you really want to make something, then make it (even if it's already made - you will still be learning).
Do that a bunch of times with a variety of projects and you will have a pretty good grasp on the language.
I find that if you force yourself to try and learn it, you're really not going to learn it.

Well at least that's how I learned PHP, just making things and learning along the way.

 

[ConnorPeet]

Best way to learn web design: practice

Doesn't really matter where you learn the basics from. The actual knowledge needed for web design* is extremely minimal - HTML, CSS, and some knowledge of Javascript eventually (though you can make beautiful stuff without using a single line of Javascript). You can pick up this book learning in a week or so.

But practice is what separates the mediocre from the great is simply, practice. Keep actively improving and trying new techniques with every design you create. Copying other designs exactly (for practice only) is a good way to see how they work.

*I'm referring to web design as you specify in your title, not web development which includes creation of the mechanics of application logic. That's an entirely different skillset.

 

[Skionz]

The markup languages are very easy to learn, but you can learn basic syntax of PHP and JavaScript from CodeAcademy.