Hi, I am looking to create a website using either ez generator or doodlekit. Does anyone use either of these and what's your opinion if you do? I've been learning html but its just not coming along as quick as I'd like to get started with things...thanks
Never heard of either one, but you get to make a choice here: If you're just building one website cause you want a website, any of these things that do most of the work for you is what you want. They can't write HTML like a human, but if it looks okay to you and works, you don't care. Otherwise, if you want to learn HTML and CSS and all that, then go all out and learn it. The only programme you'll need is something to type text in (not Word or any of those word processors... they are too complicated and end up adding their own, inappropriate code). The HTML will take some time, but not long. The CSS will take a lot longer. I recommend this book if you want to learn how to write: Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way Using HTML and CSS by Ian Lloyd. It gave me my start. That's all it is, a start, but you start from knowing nothing to being able to build a website (you build one as you go through the book).
Unfortunately you'll find a lot of either flat-out wrong info on the web, or so outdated that it's no longer correct. Any site which teaches you how to use the <font> tag, for example, needs to be humanely put to sleep. That tag (and a bazillion others), while usually still working in current browsers, are not valid and haven't been for like 10 years. The Site Point site generally keeps up to date, as well as "article" sites like A List Apart (look at the dates of their articles, some of their stuff has also gotten old), 456bereastreet, htmldog, etc. The bad thing about a lot of tutorials is that they teach you the tags, but not how to build a proper page with them. Ian's book will, at least basically.