hi all i wanted some advice i know how to use dreamweaver i know abit of flash a bit of fireworks and photoshop i want to design website but i can never seem to come up with a design if i do it very basic so i find it hard to design website for others as i fill i may let them down

i also have loads of really good idear for website but sometimes im not sure what road to go as i could design them but alot would need things like php sql and so on but im aint got a clue about them

how do people deisgn there site do they jsut jump into it or do they draw a plan up

also what the best order to learn thigns

java sql mysql php css so on

Well, personally I do:

1/ Think about how it'll look in my head.
2/ Sketch on paper whilst thinking about how the css will work - what will be fluid, how big will each div be etc
3/ Draw up in Photoshop.
4/ Go to bed
5/ Next day I check in Photoshop, if Im unsure Ill come up with a totally new deisgn or just a slightly revised one and draw that up. If Im sure its good then Ill go to 6/
6/ Create all the divs in CSS using notepad and created the index.html file in notepad. I just asign different background-colors to all the divs.
7/ Check this basic layout in IE 6, IE 5.5, Firefox, Opera and Netscape.
8/ Slice up my photoshop file and start applying images to the site.

Sometimes the ideas flow, sometimes not. It depends on how interesting the project is. If its a marketing site its boring and it'll take me quite some time to spice up the site. If its about something more interesting like music or photography then it takes me very little time to come up with a good design.

i mean sometimes i do get idears i start to develop them but i have problems like cant find a image i need that a focus point of the site so then i have to try change it around then i never seem to have time to put the hours in i need as somethink else alway pops up and i end up rushing to get the site on the net