Download yourself a copy of HTMLKit and use its html Editor and the Preview features. You can see what you have done immediately. Remember always use this as the beginning of your design: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Page title</title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Everything you type should stay within.
w3schools[dot]com has been quite nice to use when I was in learning stages. Also try to get the hang of things. Keep on trying different tutorials on all sorts of tutorials sites. After that, start looking at hte page source of other sites, see how they have done certain things that you would like to know. After that stage you should be able to experiment
Aaron, I think you need to relax. CSS isn't getting a bad rap (and yes, this is my reply to the PM you sent me), but it can't work without HTML. Yeah, you have that brand new car, but it's not going anywhere without an engine and gas in the tank.
If Dreamweaver is official, then I'm Jeffrey Zeldman posting in disguise. Dreamweaver is a product created by a company. A popular product. It is by no means whatsoever "official" - if it were, the cost of getting into Web design would be so high that nobody would even bother unless they already had $400 to burn on that over-priced glorified text editor.
dan im not knocing css its all over the net," I see your point but ive seen many articles on why not to use css and they urged this as a warn css is really hard to modify and that could be reall problem online.
guys i found this website intresting. it contains around 1000 of free templates..http://www.templates.hyperphp.com/
Dan Schulz > I recall your instruction as to use DW in code view for a better site design<" I mean every editor has a G & B BUT im not a guru so this implies to the simple web designer I bought my DW application for $69.00 I wont say where its a cee note. but hey DW is not so bad. many are very pleased with its capabilities and such ," with web design now days you need a good place to start I started with NVU free so im cool with it.
learn first from Joe Barta's HTML tutor site (just google it) this will take 2-3days then use a wat u see is wat u get editor like frontpage hope this helps
Aaron, you've misunderstood what I've said (I also noticed you tend to do this a lot). I never said to use Dreamweaver, I merely said that it's best used as an over-priced glorified $400 text editor. Also, whoever's saying that CSS is bad needs to step back away from the keyboard and get a McJob, plain and simple, since they obviously don't know what the hell they're talking about. Parab, I really don't recommend that. All it'll do is fail to teach the real basic fundamentals of HTML (which is semantics and page structure) and will force people to treat WISIWYG editors as a crutch. I'd rather walk without crutches than with them, but that's just me.