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Web design is becoming a crucial part of our lives today. It’s the reason a writer can create an article like this one in such a neat and beautiful theme, Thanks to Anders Norén and WordPress. It’s also the reason we can easily chat on facebook, use online payment gateways like PayPal and seamlessly navigate through mobile apps.

Being a webdesigner, you have taken a promising field. Also one that partly holds the future of tech. So, to make the best out of this awesome career, you will need to be the best at what you do. Let’s see how you can make a great web designer out of yourself.

Use what you have.

It’s impossible to learn everything. The other day we had JavaScript. Now we have React and Vue JS. We will still have more in the future. But there are still great websites build with basic markup and programming languages.

It may sound more professional to create responsive websites with bootstrap instead of media queries but at the end of the day what matters is how responsive the website is. If what you have can get the job done, what you need is to make the best use of it.

Build confidence

If there is something most designers struggle with, is building confidence in their designs. It never gets enough. You create something good then later tell yourself, maybe I should have done it better than this. Its one reason why some web deveopers are always posting their works for aproval. To make a good web designer, you need to learn and that means completing projects. You also need to make peace with the process. Go through it without turning back. As you gain experience, you will have what it takes to make great websites like some designers do.

One way to build confidence is to remind yourself that you don’t need to do it like someone else to make the best. Avoid making comparisons. Your themes could be different but they are not any bad either. The artistic and one of the great side of design is to come up with something different. Something more authentic.

Practice

The best way to learn something is by doing it. If you aim is to create a slideshow or maybe a shopping cart plugin watching a Youtube tutorial can help, online classes too but until you launch a text editor and start coding, it might never stick in your head. It’s also not about how hard but how many times you do something. Instead of trying to master elements to create a full website, what if you pick one like a contact form or a navigation bar and spend a week trying to make the most awesome form in the planet. In a months time you will be making a full website with the most amazing templates.

Borrow ideas

Sometimes it gets hard to create a single theme/site even when you have learned Css, HTML, JavaScript and other programing languages. It happens. That moment when you can’t get anything out of your head, the best thing is to borrow ideas from talented and experienced designers. They are there in YouTube and Github. Some are creating courses and tutorials on youtube. Talk of developers like Ed of dev ed and channels like easy tutorials, learn webcode, coursetro and many others. They can help you through difficult projects. They might also offer insights on how to go about creating certain components in a website.

Whatever floats your boat

As a designer, you could already have a framework in place but the final piece might not give what you expected. Frameworks are good, they make the work easier but they are also limiting. A client might demand something totally different or you might want to create something more versatile and apealing. Solution is to get out of the box and go with what works for you.

Make best use of available resources

Some stunning websites seen in the web are powered by content management systems, site builders, CDNs and certain libraries. It is almost impossible to create such sites with just a text editor i.e notepad++. It would take months to be build such a website from scratch. Below are some tools a web designer can use.

1. Apps and softwares

• Figma
• Adobe Xd
• Visual Studio

2. CDNs

• Font Awesome
• Google fonts
• Tiny. Com

3. Libraries

• Jquery
• Bootstrap

4. Site builders

• Elementor with wordpress
• Wix

5. Tutorials and support

• Tutorials point
• W3 schools
• Developer.mozilla
• Stackoverflow

6. Stores and sites

• Pixabay
• Pexels
• Iconpacks
• Background remove
• Tiny jpg

After following all the guidelines remember that web design is like art. There are the basic standards that make a well designed website I. e good UI and UX but each user connects differently with the appearance of a certain website. Some may like it while others may not. So, there can be a direct answer to whether a website is properly designed but there isn’t a direct answer to best designed websites.