I want to learn HTML. What is a good course or book?

I Suggest You To Learn Yourself In Frontpage............Frontpage Is the Higher level Of Html..........i Suggest You To Play first With Frontpage

Thanks

 

Both w3schools and FrontPage are crap. Seriously. The former is riddled with errors, doesn't actually explain HOW to use anything, especially in context with other elements, and hasn't been updated in years. The latter, well let's just say that if Microsoft doesn't even support it...

 

try reading some ebooks by Sitepoint .. i learnt my HTML basics by reading them. They are pretty good and explaination is easily understood by beginners(like myself)

 

Learning backwords is awesome . Learn PHP first, by seeing sample codes of php and embedded HTML, you will understand HTML.

 

Thankyou guys..........indeed i was looking for information on how to learn HTML and i got it all or atleast to start with........

Thanks a lot all of you.

 

That's a VERY bad idea. You need to know how HTML works before you even think about using PHP (or any other server-side programming language) to generate Web pages. If you don't now HTML, you're going to be up the creek without a paddle if you try to tackle PHP first.

 

www.w3schoools.com is really good. But the best way would be to learn from available website scripts.

 

Bulletproof web design. Although it isn't aimed at beginners, I recommend it if you're a quick learner. (http://www.amazon.com/Bulletproof-Web-Design-flexibility-protecting/dp/0321509021/) You'll go straight into the meat of real-life web development problems, without getting too technical, whilst learning some great CSS & HTML practices right from the start.

HTML mastery (preview here: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPA26,M1) is another great book that covers HTML in-depth.
http://www.amazon.com/HTML-Mastery-Semantics-Standards-Styling/dp/1590597656

 

The Dreamweaver tutorials were nice and you can also test hands-on what you're doing But you need to buy Adobe Dreamweaver, obviously.

 

Frontpage? I have never meet a serious web designer ever use this program. It has more html errors that you can imagine. Stick with notepad or buy Dreamweaver.

 

I guess for basic HTML, frontpage can be an alternative. But as far as WYSIWYG editors go, I'd stick with dreamweaver in the long run.

 

Thanks guys for all your input. I have tried using w3schools and personally find it a little bit too 'simple' in its style of teaching.

I don't actually have dreamweaver at the moment, and don't fancy buying it for the odd site here and there And frontpage is crap.

I am about to browse some of the other suggested sites and books, so wish me luck.

 

Jared, I'm pretty sure there's a free trial of Adobe Dreamweaver on www .adobe.com

I think HTML is something you would rather learn "hands-on", while actually experimenting it, rather than by reading a book.

 

Thanks.

One more question. What is XHTML compared to HTML. Should I learn one over the other?

 

I learned html by using some free WYSIWYG-editor and readng. I think that it was great compination. Easy way of making page and you can still learn and try different things.

 

I personally don't prefer this because, HTML is just tags, when people learn HTML first, they tend to go very deep and learn each and every tags, But in reality only some of the tags are useful and When you see any sample code of php which has embedded HTML, you can look up for what it does and hence this is a good method, which i use. This is faster.

 

Which also completely ignores the rules of HTML. Ever hear of a thing called semantics? HTML isn't just a simple stupid markup language. It's reach and influence goes far beyond structuring a Web page. Look at accessibility, usability, and even SEO. If you don't take the time to learn HTML properly, you're just shooting yourself in the foot, cutting off your nose to spite your face and so forth. You can only "learn" so much from experimenting. You really want to learn it? Sit down and read a book. I'm not kidding. (I'm saying this from personal experience, if that means anything to you.)

And Jared, you'll want to read this if you want to know the difference between HTML and XHTML:
XHTML vs HTML FAQ [link: sitepoint.com]
XHTML 1.0 vs XHTML 1.1 [link: sitepoint.com]
Frequently Asked Questions about HTML [link: sitepoint.com]

 

Ah, but this book isn't one you sit down on the couch and read (well, maybe the first chapter if you don't know what HTML is or how to open something like Notepad).

It's like, page whatever, type THIS and look at it in your browser. Now, this is what you just typed means. Now type THIS OTHER THING... and here's what it means. Anyone can skip the explanations if they just want to build the page, but the explanations are what make it gold. You ARE building a site, but you're learning the semantic usage of the tags and WHY which I think it the most important part. Otherwise, you're just doing w3schools which shows you a tag and what it does and then you get those garbage web sites with everything positioned absolutely and <br> tags everywhere. Yuck.

Jared, if you DO end up trying the book, you will learn XHTML-- but most of the time there's not a huge difference, esp when you're beginning. In the beginning, it's just making sure the "empty" tags are ended XHTML style and not HTML style, and that the doctype says "XHTML". The reason I say that is because if you want people wth IE to view your site no problem, you're going to say "XHTML" but call it "text/html" anyway (so, not a real XML document). The reason most of my pages begin with XHTML is simply (only) because it's what I started with. The important thing is the "Strict" part, not the X part. : )

 

I also highly recommend w3schools, or hands on experience get a template, or script and manipulate it.

It's a great place to start

 

hi!
try the site esnips.com, here u can find something u need on basic html.
most important is that u see source of the sites u visit and understand the tags used.
all the best......