Hello Im pretty new to this so I want to learn how to build websites... I dont know any html or anything so if anyone can help me that would be great. Im a fast leaner. Im a Visual learner so if there is a video or something that would be great. Thanks..
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Do you know how to design at all? The best way to learn is trial by fire. Luckily there are a lot of people here to help you along the way and some tutorials and books out there available to you. Sitepoint has a XHTML/CSS book i'veb een reading that I believe starts from scratch. All the way down to the <html> tags, and what makes it a "tag". PM me if you are interested in reading the book i'll give the name. The first 4 chapters you can download on the internet.
Just go to www.sitepoint.com and try there ebooks tutorials - really worth it. Also try to collect some ebooks from scribd. Reading ebooks on this will really help.
Here, learn by doing it. This should give you an idea of what it is.(i hope you're using windows) ok open up a new text document and copy the following into it: -------------------------------------------------------------------- <html> <head> <title>This Is the Title</title> </head> <body> This is the body. <p> this is a paragraph (thus the p) </p> </body> </html> -------------------------------------------------------------------- save the file as "site.html" on your desktop or somewhere you can find it easily. after youved saved it an internet explorer icon should appear with the name "site" double click it to view your new beautiful site. if you want me to explain the tags ill do that in another post im not sure how long they're allowed to be.
Doing what Sky2High said will force the browsers into what's called quirks mode - it's "geek talk" for "buggy error-ridden code" that the browsers have to guess for themselves what you really want to do. HTML is a structural markup language that in this day and age has absolutely nothing to do with appearance or functionality (which are the realms of Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript, respectively). However, HTML does have a somewhat symbiotic relationship with CSS (which is ironically dependent on HTML for its use). Not to be haughty or stuck up, but there is no real "best" resource for beginning Web designers yet (since I have yet to launch one of the sites I'm working on) but in the meantime, I strongly suggest you go to your local public library and check out a copy of Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way Using HTML & CSS by Ian Lloyd [sitepoint.com]. You may also want to read Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey Zeldman [zeldman.com] and Don't Make Me Think! A Commonsense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug [sensible.com] as well. The latter two don't deal with coding (unlike the first book) but instead deal with the need for Web standards (Zeldman) and common sense (Krug). They're both relatively thin (page wise) but jam-packed with content. In fact, Steve's book can be read during a plane flight (or on a train), and both books are written in plain conversational langauge that even my own mother can understand!
Sent you some info for building sites with HTML & CSS , invaluable information actually, hope it goes to good use.
I originally learnt from w3schools and then purchased a sitepoint book, which was very useful. After which the best way to learn is to explore other different html websites when your thinking about trying something you don't already know about html, dont waste your time learning things you dont need, you will give yourself too much to learn, instead do it bit by bit. Cross browser css bug styling is an essential for designing good websites, you'll find most forums will answer the questions you have if you do a search for your html issues on google.
Using a content management system (whether Joomla or WordPress or anything else) without knowing how to make a basic Web site just locks you into that platform and restricts you to whatever themes are avaialble. And you'll quickly find yourself in way over your head (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL) if you try to change anything. Wait to use one of these powerful tools until after you have some experience with (X)HTML and CSS. The books I linked you to will help provide that experience. You'll be glad you did.
I would suggest you start from using tools like dreamweaver, when you drawing tables, making links, DO look at the source code and try to remember it. When you get familiar with it, you can do it in html pad. Finally you should learn how to use CMS
I wouldn't recomend starting doing this. Makes you get into bad habbits. Start coding html strict in notepad.
Or any other text editor. I'm currently using Edit+ but win32pad is also a good option. Just bear in mind that the current version of win32pad has a bug in it where pressing Shift+Tab after highlighting something will cause a character to be erased. Previous versions are available, and do not suffer from this bug. You can get it for free at www.gena01.com/win32pad