start from basics -> get familiar with basic html tags eg. <table>,<p>,<br>... -> using dreamweaver, create a simple webpage in "design view mode" -> learning tags that DW generate for you, you'll see how each tag works. -> try something harder like <form>, CSS, javascript. if you have anytroubles, ask someone in this forums
htmldog.com, it's the best site to use imo. Teaches you valid xhtml, and CSS! Using it you can have HTML basics down in a few hours quite easily. Good luck, -nmx
IMO <table> is a more advanced tag that you would use in HTML. Tables are not the easiest thing to understand, however, once you learn them and play with them a bit it is almost like riding a bike. You won't really understand why they are so difficult for some. My advice would be to jump in head-first... think of a website you want to build. Then start building it. Maybe trying using HTML only first because designing in photoshop is a whole different thing you may want to learn later on... get familiar with <b>, <br>, <p>, etc. When you get stuck, you know you have a lot of helpful people here to help you out regardless of how "dumb" you may think the question may be.
HTML is VERY easy. Just remember this and you know HTML! 1. HTML has tags. When you want an effect you enclose text in the tags. 2. Tags consist of an end tag and a start tag. Both tags comprise of open < and close >. The only difference is that the end tag has \ in it and start tag doesn't. 3. The letter between the tag < and > represents an "action." For example the tag <p> is a start tag because it does not have \ and the letter between which is p. It signifys that the text you enclose between the tags will be treated by the browser as a paragraph. Similarly, look at the <b> tag. The "b" tells the browser to make the text between the <b> start tag and </b> end tag dark colored. 4. You begin every page with <html> and end it with yes you guessed it </html> 5. Now you make the whole page using tags Now that you know html all you need to do is study how tags work. Try a tutorial at tizag.com. Then get an html reference and use the tags to make your webpage. Simple!
Hi Chris, I strongly suggest you pick up a copy of Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS by Ian Lloyd. Seriously. Unlike WISIWYG editors which will barf up bloated sloppy code you won't understand, or Web sites that claim to teach you the "right way" to do things (especially ones put together by people with rudimentary coding knowledge) a book has to go through a rigorous fact checking, editorial and review process before it even GETS to the technical editor staff at the publishing company for another round of the same (fact checking, editorial and review processes). And then the book has to pass muster with them before it's even permitted to be sent to the printers for publication. Granted, books are static (once published) and can become dated, which is why reputable books (such as the one I suggested) often provide Web sites that have either errata, strong healthy communities with knowledgable people ready and willing to help you (no beer runs required), or both, and are routinely updated every few years as the standards, technologies and techniques (best practices) change. Once you have learned the fundamentals (which will provide you with the strong foundation you need) then feel free to move on to the Web and look for tutorials on how to implement specific features that you want to include in your sites.
I recommend that you first edit premade free templates to get a general feel of how HTML works. Try to stick with xHTML since it's cleaner.
I would suggest you to learn HTML while keeping in mind that the new standard is xhtml. Everything is evolving towards it so it's a good thing to learn at the beginning.
Actually, markup is evolving towards HTML 5 (the W3C was forced to get involved when the WHATWG threatened to render the W3C obsolete). HTML 5 had a lot of promise, but unfortunately is now nothing more than a joke.
Go to w3schools.com/tags and learn the tags and how to apply them. Then open your favorite text editor and make a html webpage and keep doing different stuff. You will eventually learn html that way. Dr Small
Find a simple looking site. Save the page with the images. Open it in Dreamweaver and rebuilt the site on your own. Use the working version as reference. Make sure you delete things out and test the site to see what certain elements control or do.
All of which won't do a bit of good if you don't know how to use the code in the first place, which is why I suggested a good book. You can't do much without the fundamentals.
I just bought Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS book and hope it is good! I think it is a good price and a good way to learn Html and CSS. Thanks Dan Schulz for recommending this book!
At first do it in notepad and save as.html . If you are trying to use WYSIWYG editors at the begining itself, then it will be difficuilt for you to correct the bugs or broken tags in future. So, first learn it with notepad coding, then use an editor like 'Dreamweaver'. All the best !
I bought the book last week and will be picking it up today. And this weekend we're having coding nights (my husband and our friend are programmers)!!
I somewhat disagree Dan DW is official and you take out the crappy code as well have seen fresh toturials online I mean free ones??