I'm new to web design and learned how to write html in a class this year, and made my first website. Please take a look, and tell me how I can improve. The URL is http://mesothelioma.scienceontheweb.net. Here is a link <a href="http://mesothelioma.scienceontheweb.net>LINK</a> HTML: . Thanks in Advance, Mark
If you're serious about learning up to date modern techniques in front end web development then I suggest you ditch that class immediately and start learning from home, because the majority of teachers learned this stuff back in the 90s before everyone got their heads outta their asses and smartened up. Chances are your teachers didn't stay up to date and are teaching bad practices like tables for layout, framesets, just completely bad ways of doing things. I know this from experience, I was like you in high school around 2004 learning HTML, luckily my teacher taught us to do things in Notepad first before Dreamweaver... but after the first year I smartened up and got ahead by reading Dan Cederholm's and Jeffrey Zeldman's books (Web Standards Solutions & Designing with Web Standards. I suggest you get a book that Dan Schulz always recommends and I've skimmed through it briefly.. Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way by Ian Lloyd, or maybe just learn via websites such as http://www.htmldog.com/ (there's also a book by the site's author.. I would get Ian's book instead though). After you get good with semantic html then get that Apress 'Beginning CSS Development' by Simon Collison.. CSS Mastery is pretty nice as well.
While I agree somewhat with soulscratch I would like to add that not everything is learned from a book. If you're more of a practical person try downloading a couple of valid xhtml designs and dissecting it yourself instead of reading something that tell's you to do things a certain way. Start with minor changes in the stylesheet and structure then preview the changes in your browser. As long as you have a CSS/XHTML markup (read: cheat sheet) in front of you there would be no reason for you not to progress with web design. Oh, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your design is poor at best.
Learn more HTML and CSS. Stop thinking be four think the future. U needs more learning and visiting more website. See the latest web site and follow them.
Agreed... you need to look into learning some more modern web languages: CSS, XHTML, PHP... PM me if you want some personalized help, I'll give you my AIM name and we can talk about it. Best wishes!
It's alright for a first site using basic html. Get a book or research online to learn about more advanced HTML and CSS methods
1. congrats and welcome to the club. 2. dont let others get you down. (with there comments) 3. im not gonna say quit the class, but DO self study at home.
To tell you honestly the design was not a design at all.. It is so plain but not bad for a beginner. Keep it up.. Try to study different website and also it will help you a lot if you go in tutorial site.
Well, what your class probably taught you was the extreme basics. You obviously know what a list is, you know how to create a table ( a plus even though it is no longer the recommended way of creating layouts ) and you know what a header is. You can build off that, but it will take time. Read some books, read everything thoroughly. IF there is something you don't understand in the book re-read it before continuing or ask here. Coding is like building blocks, you can't go from a to z by skipping all the middle letters.
Thanks a lot for all the help guys. I reserved those books at my library and am trying to get them online too. One question. If tables arent the recommended way to lay things out anymore, what is?