Wanting to start to design layouts

[Ezzie.]

Hey I've felt like the time is right to start web designing again, I have html under my belt but i want to know how to design layouts...

If there's any guides thatll be appreciated alot, the programs i have..
Studio 8
normal paint
adobe photoshop

all help appreciated :)

[Encryptions!]

Hello.

http://pixel2life.com
http://good-tutorials.com
http://tutorialized.com

They are all good sites.

[Mentor]

Where does this step between knowing html and makeing layouts come from? there one and the same?
To make a layout you Use html to set up a page? Maybe a 3 colum layout? a 100% width 3 colum table will do it, some smaller tables for containers maybe? then a few images?
Html = layout.

Althogh realy css shoudl be used, so you should be floating divs, insted of the tables for the most part "/

ps. How do you get on the webdesign team for habbox, without even knowing html properly? (If you cant create a layout, you dont know html - even if your crap at designing, you can still make an ugly one)
- Your not actaly listed as a webpage designer looking? is that just somthing u put in your title?

[Ezzie.]

Oh no I quit from that job and yes i did used to know html but I haven't really been doing it for quite a while.

[MattUH]

whys it still in ur user title then.

[Ezzie.]

too lazy to take it out ^_^ and my manager shuda done it so ;)

[Mentor]

Ah :) well if the manages are to lazy, who are you to complain :D

I suggest just opening a document are start putting together a simple page, praps just a copy of an exist one, but recreated in your own code, not copying or veiwing there sorce, just to see what you still know, and hopefuly most of it should come back, then some googling for what you have forgotten or are haveing trouble with?

[Ezzie.]

yeah thanks i might start dabbling in css and php once i get it all back and i got fired for doing everyones work then not doing it for a week *sigh* i also thought u shuda been manager but u left few weeks before 8freak

[Electrified]

http://www.slicingguide.com/

helps you slice layouts when you know how to make them

[Sygon.]

Atleast you got ps, theres nothing really erasier to make an good layout you just need tokeep practising read alotof tutorials and learn from the skills, then put it all into one and bam you got a good layout =]

[Encryptions!]

http://www.slicingguide.com/

helps you slice layouts when you know how to make them

Personally I think SG is outdated now as it still uses Dreamweaver MX and tables which are used for tabular design, if any I suggest http://pixel2life.com/twodded