Is w3schools.com enough for learning resource to create a complete website ? And how many days do you think I will take to learn how to make website.I play 15 hours a day and I expect to learn in 2 - 3 days. Is it possible , and most important , do I have to learn from somewhere else besides w3schools.com ? thanks
Hey there! Had a look at the site, they got loads of free tutorials, so it seems like a good place to start. Building sites that are W3C compliant is part of our strategy, so you seem to be on the right track here. How long it will take to learn from scratch depends very much on the individual, you seem like a persistent, diligent type so your timeframe might be on. Expect to take a bit longer to learn the more intricate stuff. Good luck on your quest!
w3schools has nothing to do with the W3C, they just got very lucky with the domain name. They aren't the worst place to learn, but certainly not the best. Especially when they're still teaching people how to use the <font> tag. Using the <font> tag makes the sweet baby Buddha cry. Don't do it. HTMLdog has an updated (ie, not 10 years old) html tutorial set that's considered pretty decent. Any tutorials can teach you about the tags, that's nothing, but learning how to build a website is something different. Like, I could teach you a bunch of Finnish words, hundreds of them, but you won't be able to speak Finnish. You said you only had a few days, but if you're going to get into this seriously, you might as well start on the right foot. Some crusty old guy recommended Ian Lloyd's Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way Using HTML and CSS, and that gave me my start. The book's old enough to be free, sitting in the library (just check the errata listing to catch the typos before they catch you if it's an old edition). He explains what does what and why, and in the meantime you're building a real website, semantically, using the right tag for the right content. When you're done, you have a nice beginner's basis with which to go further with something like HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew and Dan Shafer. That book got my head straight on CSS for positioning. You'll learn CSS for stuff like fonts and colours pretty quickly, as well as the HTML, but CSS for more complicated things frankly takes months. Not that I'm the quickest learner out there but I was sitting at work 8 hours a day getting paid to learn how to do the stuff so I had almost 100% of my time able to be dedicated to learning. And the Crusties on forums are invaluable, even when they disagree with each other.
well w3schools has lots of nice tutorials if you want to learn the basics, creating a website is a bit more than that. you need to understand the structure of a site before going into creating one. best way is to decide what you want from it, then write a list of all the pages you want so you know what you need to do then come up with some mockups in photoshop so you know what style you want, otherwise you will do alot of coding and end up scraping it becuase you dont like it. THEN you can build the site knowing you will be happy in the end.........there are lots of free tutorials out there and there is always this place too if you need help
I'm not crusty, I'm not old (I'm only 28), but yes, I did indeed recommend Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS by Ian Lloyd. You might want to read the post I quoted then. W3Schools is a lot of things, but good ain't one of them. And to answer your question, it's going to take you a few weeks at least. Learning HTML won't be that hard, unless you want to deal with forms, tables, and accessibility issues, but learning CSS so you can make your sites shine is going to be the real hassle. In addition to the book I linked to above, you'll also want to read Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman and Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, both in their second editions.
Ofcourse w3schools.com is not enough, here r few link: www.good-tutorials.com , www.pixel2life.com , www.tutorialized.com r few SE tutorials site. learning never ends. if u want to become a good designer or whatever u want.