How did you learn and start designing/coding ?

Hi all authors .
how did you learn designing and coding themes and templates ? from where you started this way ?
how did you learn these ? from a learning class ? or just by working with codes and editing them ?
glad to hear from the top authors !

any reply ?

1. Messing around with programming on Commodore 64
2. Microsoft Front Page on Pentium I
3. GameMaker on Pentium III (i wish i could find those games i programmed, the GTA2 copy was nice)
4. Got serious about webdev, started with HTML and CSS, had some ebooks
5. When i figured out the basics of those i started learning from forums and tutorials on the web
6. Then came PHP and JavaScript, tutorials and forums as well.
7. Started doing freelancing on getafreelancer.com
8. Found out about jQuery and fell in love in it
9. More freelancing on GAF
10. Started a blog (WP) where i wrote jQuery tuts, somehow i can’t remember the domain name
12. I used a free theme for a while, then decided to make my own and that’s how my WP dev part of life started.
13. Started messing more and more with WordPress, did some little freelance projects.
14. Started a blog where i wrote tuts on WordPress development, learned a lot by writing tuts. That was wpcanyon.com, it’s no longer available.
15. Developed 2 themes for an author here on TF
16. Found a designer (Justin Van Oel) and since then selling themes with him

Here’s my profile on freelancer.com (former getafreelancer.com). No longer active.

That’s pretty much all.

WPScientist said

1. Messing around with programming on Commodore 64
2. Microsoft Front Page on Pentium I
3. GameMaker on Pentium III (i wish i could find those games i programmed, the GTA2 copy was nice)
4. Got serious about webdev, started with HTML and CSS, had some ebooks
5. When i figured out the basics of those i started learning from forums and tutorials on the web
6. Then came PHP and JavaScript, tutorials and forums as well.
7. Started doing freelancing on getafreelancer.com
8. Found out about jQuery and fell in love in it
9. More freelancing on GAF
10. Started a blog (WP) where i wrote jQuery tuts, somehow i can’t remember the domain name
12. I used a free theme for a while, then decided to make my own and that’s how my WP dev part of life started.
13. Started messing more and more with WordPress, did some little freelance projects.
14. Started a blog where i wrote tuts on WordPress development, learned a lot by writing tuts. That was wpcanyon.com, it’s no longer available.
15. Developed 2 themes for an author here on TF
16. Found a designer (Justin Van Oel) and since then selling themes with him

Here’s my profile on freelancer.com (former getafreelancer.com). No longer active.

That’s pretty much all.

thanks for your detailed reply , i want to start designing themes for themeforest . i’m a professional css&html coder , and i know a lot about wordpress php codes . but i have to learn jquery and javascript . do you have any advice for me ?

I learned most of what I know about coding from Jeffrey Way’s tutorials on NetTuts. From beginner to advanced, check out his older tutorials mainly.

When I was 12 we were writing html/css on paper (yes, paper) with my some classmates during school classes Some time later, we made a website for our spankin’ new “company”. We had no clients though….

edit: I found it At least one of the versions, but the better one (with more beveled graphics and more content) got lost.

Opened Adobe Photoshop, started clicking buttons.. the rest was history

Self taught. I can’t remember why I go into web development. Must be cause I liked playing with lego as a kid XD

Through vintage multimedia course. Even “how to switch on computer” learnt from there
But course was just introduction to tools. So Designing and Coding learnt through work experience.

Learned by myself. Books, tutorials and a lot of curiosity. It was started something like this: How can i create a HTML page? How can i create a button (a link)? How can i link some pages between? How can i create a form? How can i make the form send a mail? (moved to PHP). How can i create an animated banner? (go to Flash) And so on…