Reddit reviews Graphic Design: The New Basics

Ellen Lupton's The New Basics and Philip Megg's Megg's History are both essential reading for any designer imo.

There is no single tutorial for everything. I wish there were though. I am about to unleash some binge links to you.

Learn the basics of how the web works would be the first step i'd say. Teamtreehouse has fantastic starting points for this. (https://teamtreehouse.com/tracks/web-design) for example.
that will get the basics down for you then you can decide what you want to learn and go into further learning elsewhere. I don't do too much coding, so the others here would be able to tell you some great resources.

A few off the top of my head though..

• Lynda
  
• Tutsplus
  
• Youtube
  
• Udemy
  
• Code School
  
• Code Academy
  
• Freecodecamp
  
• The Lodge
  
  -----------------------
  
  
  To get a good grasp on SEO
  
  
• Google Digital Garage - a fantastic start to learning a general overview of how SEO, digital marketing and social media plays a part to getting your business on the world wide web. Free! (https://digitalgarage.withgoogle.com/)
  
• Read everything on Moz (https://moz.com/learn/seo)
  
• Backlinko - Essential the SEO king. Great content to learn from.(http://backlinko.com/)
  
• Clickminded is pretty neat resource, cost a little bit though. (www.clickminded.com)
  
• Hootsuite is great for learning Social Marketing (https://education.hootsuite.com/collections/courses)
  
• Hubspot is another great resources for digital marketing (https://academy.hubspot.com/certification)
  
• Tons of seo/digital marketing etc on Lynda. They go in depth on specific topics.(https://www.lynda.com/learning-paths/Marketing/become-an-seo-expert)
  
• Quicksprout (https://www.quicksprout.com/university/)
  
• Maybe learn some email marketing platforms like Mailchimp which is one of the most popular platforms going around. Paul Jarvis has a sweet course on it (https://chimpessentials.com/)
  
  
  -----------------------
  
  Graphic Design side of things
  
  I'm still not amazing at designing, but what helped me a lot was just always being around inspiration designs whether it's website designs, flyers, icons, little ui animations, whatever.. You should check out Panda for Chrome. (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/panda-5-news-inspiration/haafibkemckmbknhfkiiniobjpgkebko?hl=en) Install it now and use it every day.
  
  It wouldn't hurt to study graphic design formally too. Of Course you can learn it on your own, but it may help having someone by your side to get you started.
  
  Some sites you can get started learning design from
  
  

• Lynda has nice courses for designing for web (https://www.lynda.com/learning-paths/Web/become-a-web-designer)
  
• Tuts+ has nice stuff to you can learn from (https://tutsplus.com/)
  
• Designlab has great mentored classes (http://trydesignlab.com/)
  
• Read some books like Graphic design - the new basics (https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Basics-Revised-Expanded/dp/161689332X/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=P0R2MXMEXJGV34KJ6P7M)
  
• Youtube channels like Devtips, Mckenzie Child
  
  There's sooooo many other resources, but a big part of learning design is looking at it and breaking it apart and asking why it works. Why do these colours work so well together? Why did they choose that font? Look at the layout and shrink it to tablet/mobile and see what design choices the designer made to make it work on those different resolutions and so on. Try to recreate those designs in photoshop. Try making your own designs from sketch to wireframe to design in photoshop. Get a notepad and sketch things as much as you can.
  
  Design is problem solving remember, not making things look pretty off the bat. That took me a while to realise. Once you worked out a good solution to your problem, then you can make it look nice. Stepping back and writing down goals, target audience, limitations you may encounter a long the way and everything else helps so much with your decision making.
  
  Design takes a long time to get right, so be patient. You won't be a badass amazing designer in a week...or month..or year. Enjoy the ride, learn from others and each design you do it will get better. I promise!
  
  
  Some additional links that have helped me..
  
  Learning how to optimise my websites for better performance and usability.
  
  

• Pagespeed - https://varvy.com/pagespeed/
  
• Website analyzes like Gtmetrix (https://gtmetrix.com/) and Google PageSpeed (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/) are great at telling you what your website isn't doing good at and what it excels in performance wise and if there are issues they teach you so much about how to get the best out of your website's performance. Great resource.
  
  Never stop learning, things change quick.
  
  
  I hope this helps mate.
  
  My longest reddit post i've ever done. So you better feel special. Maybe I felt like writing a lot for you because it's my birthday today.. I dunno :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

yes

or

Graphic Design the New Basics book is a great book to learn design from. This is what we use in college.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/161689332X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497659253&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=new+basics+of+graphic+design&dpPl=1&dpID=51BV0ooglKL&ref=plSrch