Web design is one of the few topics I can spend hours talking about and asking questions and I've been an aspiring dev/designer for about 6 years now but I started at the age of 11 so I never taught myself the "correct" way. For example I found a piece of coding from a site I made in 2010 that had the <tr> and <td> tags located outside of a table. I've made quite the transition since and I only use divs for that type of stuff now so that's good.
For me, I'm currently taking my first and only course of web design which is advanced web design in high school. Basically the class is combined with advanced web which is 2+ years in the class and the intro class which is the first year design. I had to "test" out of intro because I knew it would be too easy. But since the classes are merged between 1 teacher, she rarely has time for any questions and usually when I ask a question she has me write it on a piece of paper and give it to her so she can look up the answer or something like that.
Regardless, I apologize for the rambling, on to the questions:
What are some good resources that will help me get "up-to-date" with the current state in design?
I know the "magazine-style" sites where each div takes up like 90vh and 100vw, because how easy mobile compatibility.
What is the most cost efficient laptop I could get for programming?
I have a desktop right now and my cousin who is a developer told me to get a Macbook Pro, but I just want more opinions.
What are good colleges that aren't like MIT that would be decent options?
This is probably a better question for my counselor at school but I like multiple opinions, and I live in Michigan and would like to stay within the surrounding states.
What languages do I really need to know?
Currently I am floating around very good knowledge of HTML. I get the larger concept of CSS but still struggle with the Mobile compatibility aspect and getting certain simple things to be just the way I want. I do also understand the concept of JavaScript/jQuery and how to integrate it usually and the same goes for basic PHP.
Reference for how bad I am: http://www.dawop.net
This is the site I am working on for my father's invention. I know the menu and the overall design is ugly, and I do need help getting the <iframe> to scale the contact.php down/up in case of mobile compatibility. This site is still early in the development because I've been working full time on a site that may not even get hosted in the end because it was the requirement for my web design class.
Sometimes I feel hopeless because I see a site like: http://andy-hook.co.uk/ and if this is the stuff it takes to be a good dev I feel like I'll never make it.
I know a lot of my questions aren't great questions, I've been told before I have trouble making sense of a lot of things I say about web design because I guess I get so passionate about it I can't figure out how to word it. I honestly just want to talk about web design with people who know what they're talking about because I'm surrounded by people who don't understand and my cousin who got me interested in it so many years ago is living in Chicago now and he's so busy it's a blessing when I do actually get to talk to him because he's the only person I can talk to help me and teach me some things that I can't figure out on my own.
If you've made it this far, I thank you so much for the time you've taken in just reading this.
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