Learning website design and HTML coding

[jackace]

I have always been greatly interested in computers and such, but my focus has main interest has always been on hardware and such. I was wanting to learn HTML coding and website design to make my own website someday.

Any recommendations?

 

[Kalmah]

Start by googling HTML tutorials. You'll find TONS of info and lessons.

Also, stay away from using editors and such. Use notepad at first. It's the best way to learn.

 

[shocksyde]

I used htmlgoodies.com back in the day

 

[George P Burdell]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=70

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
Start by googling HTML tutorials. You'll find TONS of info and lessons.

Also, stay away from using editors and such. Use notepad at first. It's the best way to learn.

:thumbsup:

Just have a go at it. The best way to learn something like this is to make sure you have something to work on, something you enjoy. Just trying to learn it, academically, will be harder than figuring out how to create something you can think of. Think of a website and what you want it to do, then try and make that. Work out along the way what parts you need and what you have to know to get certain parts to work. You'll pick it up no problem.

I think the W3C has some decent HTML tutorials, and www.php.net has some too, and needless to say their user-documented manual is priceless. XHTML/JavaScript/PHP/etc are really quite easy to learn if you are actually doing something with them instead of writing hello world scripts or pages to demonstrate basic stuff. You'll learn without even realising it .

Also, I like www.alistapart.com for design, interface, coding and structure ideas.

 

[skrilla]

Good place to start:

http://www.w3schools.com/

 

[jackace]

Thanks for all the replies. I did try the Google thing. It brought up a ton of different places. Thats why I asked here for suggestions on "good" places to learn.

I'm not looking to be an expert. I just want to be able to design and code my own site. Might even try and make a little money with it someday.

 

[jjones]

One of the best things to do is find some simplistic pages and view the code. Use an html tag reference (google one, there's plenty out there) and analyze how the page is put together; how what you see as code translates to what is displayed on a page. That will give you a quick grasp of html elements and their use.

Most sites will use CSS to style the elements, and if the page you're looking at specifies a stylesheet, look in your internet cache for the corresponding file. View that, with the help of a CSS reference, and you'll see how everything comes together to create the page.

That's really the basics of it. Creating web pages really isn't that difficult at all. When you get to making your own page, one thing that may help is to create a mock up of the page in something like Photoshop first, and then use that as your visual guide when trying to determine the best approach to coding the page.

 

[aCynic2]

I have and still use Homesite 4.51.

 

[WildHorse]

Here's an excellent beginner's tutorial: Want to learn HTML fast? If you mostly watch television, have an attention span measured in microseconds, and think reading is a waste of your valuable time, this page is for you .

 

[TeamZero]

This website would help you greatly, straight and to the point tutorials.

http://www.tizag.com

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: jackace
I have always been greatly interested in computers and such, but my focus has main interest has always been on hardware and such. I was wanting to learn HTML coding and website design to make my own website someday.

Any recommendations?

i already put up dozens of sites..so the HTML learning came more as a side-effect....but i never really sat down "to learn HTML" or started to "code" site from scratch.
IMHO the work/effort is just not worth it.

Nowadays the opensource CMS are the way to go, wordpad, drupal, joomla. For primitive sites i use XSite Pro.

In the same time i would need to "learn HTML" and fiddle around with handcoding HTML i can put up 10 sites

HTML comes then automatically with tweaking and editing the sites.