There are plenty of great ideas and examples on this site whether it be demos, videos, etc. Plus great stuff on Codepen published by incredibly skilled people. That's where I learn and get ideas from. If that's not enough for you then Google is your friend.
Surely you don't lack that much inspiration and ideas that you need to ask others to give you an initial starting point.
Just make something up...anything.
I drawn out a bulls eye shape using one of the tools on Photoshop and came up with a name called 'Target Solutions'; done a bit of design in PS and came up with this - http://stevenwatson.co.uk/examples/target-solutions
Its nothing amazing I know but it just shows how easy it is to make something random into something to work from.
Nothing now that you edited your initial post. You shouldn't ask other people to make things for you. Make an effort and we would be glad to help you from there.
@chrisburton Appologies, your first question made me revise the question. @Watson90 Just to double check, the website you made isn't a real business, Just mearly a tool to practice your design work?
@AdamHodgson, I won't suggest anything to you. Specially something about blog which I have never done. Just put something together, describe what's the purpose and post the link to it or put it on Codepen and I am sure you'll get plenty of opinions or and advice from members.
@adamhodgson why not create your own blog? You could learn a lot about CMS systems and theme creation. I'd probably recommend a free CMS like Wordpress to get going with.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes and have problems, that's all part of the fun. By making mistakes and problem solving you'll learn tons.
Flushing out ideas while also learning a CMS might be a bit overwhelming. I would stick with html and css, first. After you've created the templates is when I would start getting into learning a CMS.
@Watson90@chrisburton Thanks guys, I'll keep you posted.
@andy_unleash I was considering that, and its something I might try to work into the rock climbing idea, I've also been talking to a friend just then and may have come up with a quirky, random idea for a blog site, thanks all.
@AdamHodgson, Just one advice from novice like me. Even tho I started to get interested in HTML and CSS little over 3 years ago I made a big mistake of copying and pasting CSS and HTML of certain elements I needed for my first website. Few months ago I realized that I know actually not much at all when it comes to tweaking it or do some changes to what I built. So I got serious and since than been practicing all the time and digging deep in to every element and see what I can do with it on my own. Made a big difference.
Does anyone have any ideas for a first website I could build after my GCSE's?
Adam,
Are you serious?
What seems to be the problem?
There are plenty of great ideas and examples on this site whether it be demos, videos, etc. Plus great stuff on Codepen published by incredibly skilled people. That's where I learn and get ideas from. If that's not enough for you then Google is your friend.
Surely you don't lack that much inspiration and ideas that you need to ask others to give you an initial starting point.
Just make something up...anything.
I drawn out a bulls eye shape using one of the tools on Photoshop and came up with a name called 'Target Solutions'; done a bit of design in PS and came up with this - http://stevenwatson.co.uk/examples/target-solutions
Its nothing amazing I know but it just shows how easy it is to make something random into something to work from.
Nothing now that you edited your initial post. You shouldn't ask other people to make things for you. Make an effort and we would be glad to help you from there.
thanks @jurotek would you suggest against a simplistic blog?
Your blog doesn't have to be surrounded by content. Personally, I prefer simple websites
@chrisburton Appologies, your first question made me revise the question. @Watson90 Just to double check, the website you made isn't a real business, Just mearly a tool to practice your design work?
@AdamHodgson, I won't suggest anything to you. Specially something about blog which I have never done. Just put something together, describe what's the purpose and post the link to it or put it on Codepen and I am sure you'll get plenty of opinions or and advice from members.
Yeah it was just a totally random idea. I by no means have made it for a client nor is it a real business.
One day I just felt creative so I just started designing then coded up the page.
@Watson90 Thats a great idea! Thanks, I'll get onto one similar, might try some sort of fake rock climbing business or something like that.
Exactly. Motivate yourself to create something that you're interested in.
Yeah, that sounds like a good base point. Just go from that and ideas will just flow etc.
Good luck.
@adamhodgson why not create your own blog? You could learn a lot about CMS systems and theme creation. I'd probably recommend a free CMS like Wordpress to get going with.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes and have problems, that's all part of the fun. By making mistakes and problem solving you'll learn tons.
Flushing out ideas while also learning a CMS might be a bit overwhelming. I would stick with html and css, first. After you've created the templates is when I would start getting into learning a CMS.
@Watson90 @chrisburton Thanks guys, I'll keep you posted. @andy_unleash I was considering that, and its something I might try to work into the rock climbing idea, I've also been talking to a friend just then and may have come up with a quirky, random idea for a blog site, thanks all.
@AdamHodgson, Just one advice from novice like me. Even tho I started to get interested in HTML and CSS little over 3 years ago I made a big mistake of copying and pasting CSS and HTML of certain elements I needed for my first website. Few months ago I realized that I know actually not much at all when it comes to tweaking it or do some changes to what I built. So I got serious and since than been practicing all the time and digging deep in to every element and see what I can do with it on my own. Made a big difference.