{"id":4021,"date":"2014-07-06T05:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T10:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2014-07-19T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:28:25","slug":"learn-one-thing-at-a-time-when-learning-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2014\/learn-one-thing-at-a-time-when-learning-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn one thing at a time when learning web design."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/icon-multiplechoice.png\" alt=\"List of things\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2870\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I recently got an email from someone who felt overwhelmed with all the apps they were trying to learn &#8211; learning Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver all at the same time can do that!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do one thing at a time says I!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been there, where it seems there is so much to learn, that it becomes overwhelming. First, don&#8217;t make the mistake of believing the tools (Photoshop, Fireworks etc) are the goal &#8211; they are not. In fact, once you understand web design (development), you will likely being using 10% of Photoshop&#8217;s features &#8230; as an example.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it is best to concentrate on one thing, get functional skills and then move on to the next. Jumping around and learning bits of this one day, and a bit of that another day, will just cost you time because you will be constantly shifting gears when moving from one subject\/app to the other. <\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<br \/>\nkillerSites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/icon-multiplechoice.png\" alt=\"List of things\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2870\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently got an email from someone who felt overwhelmed with all the apps they were trying to learn &#8211; Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver all at once can do that!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do 1 thing at a time says I!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,87,59,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}