It can be quite difficult when starting out in web development, but a quite nice adventure if well prepared. Here are some useful tips that help you make your start in web development a smooth one! Here’s how to get started in web development! 1. Learn the basics Any further tip is useless if you do not know the basics of web development. If you’re struggling with the concepts of programming and design, I’ve got some nice getting started guides for you. Try to pick a few topics and make yourself comfortable with basic requirements in web development. 2. Research & get inspiration Especially when starting out in web development, you’ll be reading a lot of articles and books as well as other people’s code. You don’t have to come up with something nobody has ever seen before. There are tons of (open source) projects, code snippets and free libraries available which help you to build your first projects. You can gain a lot of inspiration from looking at the work of others. Great ideas come from building on the ideas of others

1. GETTING STARTED
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IN WEB DEVELOPMENT

2. HELLO EVERYONE!
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3. HOW TO GET STARTED?

4. FULL GUIDE CAN BE FOUND
http://goo.gl/YW6NrQ

5. LEARN THE BASICS

6. Struggling with the basics?
• Learn basic concepts with code academy
• Learn HTML & CSS
• Take classes for JavaScript
• Create your first basic website and play.
Play. And don’t forget to play.

7. LEARN HOW TO DESIGN

8. Learn to design.
• With TreeHouse.
• Take classes on design.
• And improve your HTML & CSS expertise.

9. RESEARCH
& GET INSPIRATION

10. Research & Inspiration
• Read other people’s code.
• Make use of code snippets.
• Discover the developer’s community on
GitHub
• Find design inspiration on pinterest
• Check out the search engine for design
ideas at niice.co

11. FREE RESOURCES!

12. Make use of free resources.
• Check out 12 best web development blogs
• Explore Quora
• Build a network of people you follow on
Twitter and GitHub
• Explore new resources, tools & content on
Product Hunt, dzone, reddit and hacker
news.

13. Awesome free stuff.
• 200+ free tools for web developers
• 300 free things for design, web dev &
business
• 50 free web design tools

14. IMPROVE DESIGN SKILLS

15. Improve design skills.
• Ever-changing “design standards”.
• Keep learning.
• Get yourself a design tool of your choice.

16. REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING!

17. Get comfortable in requirements
engineering!
• Requirements engineering simply helps
you (and your clients) to formulate,
document and maintain different
requirements for your product or projects.

18. Collect requirements & tasks.
• …it’s tool time!

19. GET A EASY-TO-USE EDITOR

20. Get an editor.
• a programming-friendly text is editor is
must-have for every web developer.
• Check various editors like… Sublime Text,
Notepad++, Eclipse

21. USE A FRAMEWORK

22. Frameworks.
• Frameworks make life easier.
• There are so many frameworks available.
• Bootstrap, Ember or Modernizr

23. KEEP LEARNING

24. FULL LIST CAN BE FOUND
http://goo.gl/YW6NrQ

25. QUESTIONS?
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26. ONE LAST THING…
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