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Asking how to learn design seems to be common here, yet no one here has taken the time to seize this opportunity and actually build something that aids developers to learn how to design for the web.
Then go pick out well designed websites and try to recreate it with Photoshop. You can use Dribbble for this. Try to pay attention to every pixel and recreate it exactly as you see it, or it'll most likely end up ugly. After a while you can try to add your own stuff onto it.
After doing this for some time, you'll have learned how to do simple stuff with Photoshop, you'll have learned what kind of layouts each type of website uses and you'll be able to use these layouts for your own projects. You'll learn how to effectively apply subtle effects and much more.
Basically, the fastest way to become good at design is to copy other people's design.
Also, remember that anything you design at first will probably look ugly, but you need to keep tweaking it until you find something that looks good.
I highly recommended it for people with lack of space or exercise equipment
I'm not saying what he did was right as it obviously isn't, but making such an outrage about this seems a little bit over the top, IMO.
Or maybe it's just really useful.
I decided to do a little experiment and try to find out who you really are. In about 20 minutes I found out your internet service provider, in which city you live and your username seems to be linked to "Rev. Scatological Warfare". Am I on the right track?
> but Google already knows more about me than I feel comfortable with
But how exactly are they going to link all your google searches to your real identity, if you've always used a pseudonym when using Gmail or any other Google service?
OP, I hope you realize that the costs to maintain the website will, in the long run, probably be a lot higher than the costs of building the initial website. My advice is the same: Learn to code. Your view of what makes a good start-up will change for the better after having built a few small websites of your own.