Continuing learning layout, what to study next?

Question

IT education

Good day!

We need your advice, hints, recommendations.
I will be very grateful!

There is a goal - to master layout, only layout in all its guises, I like it to typeset. I have completed a small basic course in HTML, CSS. Also, at the end of the course, I made up the main page of the site. Well, I studied part of the course about PHP, but I realized that I was going the wrong way and wasting my time on the wrong things. That's the whole experience, in fact, or it's not an experience at all yet.

Went into a dead end. I don't know how to study further. There are many different courses, but many of them offer Frontend developer courses, which, as I understand it, is a more extensive profession than a coder. It's just that the Layout Designer's courses are essentially the same as what I have already passed.

What to study further, tell me, please? What to master and where is it better - YouTube, courses, books on your own ?? What milestones should you set for yourself. Do I need a CMS in principle if I plan to do freelance work (as it will turn out, perhaps). Is it worth getting into WordPress? Or is it later, when I start simple work as a layout designer?

And here's another point - how to understand that my knowledge and experience is enough to try to get a job (preferably, of course, freelance) ??

I also read questions on the forum here, but I have a different story, everyone already has some experience in IT, I have no experience, I'm a Newbie. Therefore, I want to achieve it with minimal deviations from the goal.

That's why I'm here with my questions. I look forward to your tips!

Answer 1

The trends are such that a pure layout designer is needed only in large companies that benefit from having a highly specialized specialist. In any case, you should move towards JavaScript. Great tutorial on JS . Explore in the first part up to Prototype Inheritance. Then the second part: Browser: document, events, interfaces. This is quite enough at the start of a career.
It's also worth learning one of several preprocessors and, like the icing on the cake, any builder. (Priority Gulp / Webpack )
As someone wrote here, you have to work a lot of time as a generalist, and only then you can move towards a narrow specialty.