html
By iGimp01
@iGimp01 (188)
May 7, 2010 10:43am CST
Know any good tutorials for learning HTML, i know the very basics of it but thats just about it...
3 responses
@mario_stevens (6971)
• Malaysia
7 May 10
i'm looking for the exact same thing. i'll be keeping up with this discussion for tips and stuff..
thanks for the topic! :)
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
7 May 10
To be honest, most of the best (and highest ranking) sites actually teach HTML in the most efficient way. People who make their own sites are either reinventing the wheel or only telling you how to do one specific thing ... and, once you have done it, you can't do anything else!
There really is no shortcut. The basics are very simple (and, to most people, don't seem particularly useful) but you cannot understand the kind of things that most people want to do without understanding the basics. It's the same with anything ... learning a language, playing guitar, playing football, weight training, higher math ... there is always a 'very boring and uninteresting' band of knowledge which you have to get your head round before you ge to what you really want to do!
@iGimp01 (188)
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8 May 10
i was planning on making a whole site on it from begginers to advanced since i found that when i write a tutorial i understand it more because i start to explain what it does, i have known some basics and have taught my self a bit more, on my other website it uses bbcode so i get some idea on how to use it because although it uses square brackets [] instead of angled brackets you get the idea of using it because they use the slash to finish it lik [IMG] to [/IMG] and there are some other similarities
@maronva (15)
• Philippines
8 May 10
well, what do you have in mind about the web site that you want to build? I simply believe in "Learning by doing". If you plan to develop a dynamic site you could try visit lynda.com for online tutorials. But, if you plan to develop a static site, try w3schools.com. You might even try working on dreamweaver cs4. It has new features. Designing a web page might require a skill in Photoshop and Flash for a good quality website.
@bloggeroo (2167)
• Philippines
8 May 10
Learning HTML is the easy part and should be the least of your concerns when setting up a website. Most of the time, you can just copy a skeleton HTML file and it will work without you needing to know much details about the HTML code.
More problematic is the CSS (or cascading style sheet) tags that gets embedded into an HTML file. For those unfamiliar with the tags, you would think that you are reading HTML code, but you're not. They are CSS codes or keywords.
Anyway, I can't recommend any books right now because they tend to give you long answers for simple questions or concerns. I think you'll get much faster results if you learn how to reverse engineer (i.e., copy and paste) existing web pages.
If you'd like, I can walk you through the process of what you need to do.
