Hi I would be really interested in hearing how everyone learned HTML CSS and webdesign - College, Books, Experimentation, Tutorials???? Thanks
in front of laptop, on web, experimenting a lot, no sleeping, trough the years... there's really some major websites that can help you out, i love this one: http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ it´s more CSS oriented. best of luck!
I learned HTML back before CSS became big. When I was about 7 I bought a book called "HTML For Kids" or something like that. Learned Javascript a year later. Then when I was about 12 I dipped my toes into CSS (don't know what made me do it). ... and I still suck at web design... getting better though
I've learned it by looking on the internet.. a site I learned basic HTML (which also contains basic CSS) is http://www.htmldog.com Other than that I just experemented and after a while it got stuck in my head. That was like 3-4 months ago. Started to learn CSS a month ago on and off.. don't know any good sites for that.. I actually learned it through Dreamweaver and some forums and things..
I learnt from looking at other sites code, and eventually taught myself. A useful resource is http://www.w3schools.com/, very easy to understand. Good luck
I read through w3schools just like swiftmed did. To increase my knowledge to code in divs I read through htmldog
Saw a signature on a forum, which was really cool.. So I thought I also wanna be able to make stuff like that, so got myself photoshop and started experimenting, eventually I learned, after a few years And tutorials from RoyalGFX and ChaosGFX has helped my webdesign skills
I'm self-taught. I have a natural bent toward creative stuff, so it came pretty natural. A lot info on sites and studying the workings of great sites like Amazon. We design does not need to be fancy. What you need to have in a good site is easy navigation, fast loading, and lots of content. You ever see the big Hollywood movie sites? What a bunch of crap. All flash and very confusing navigation. All in the name of glitz and glamor. The old saying, "Keep It Simple, Stupid" rings very true when it comes to design.
Well web design was a unit on my college course, it was only to learn basically HTML, anyways after 6 months, I surpassed my teacher, won a national web design competation, and I am now representing the UK for web design in Japan. Been doing web design for arounf 10 months now
From a Dutch tutorial website i've started in Notepad, After that I've ripped other HTML websites and looked at the code. Designing the same story, Trying to recreate nice templates. So I learned by ripping templates. Don't be afraid, never sold them.
lots and lots of books and tutorials mainly from http://www.tutorialized.com but others to and css from cssbasics.com i think
My first teacher was my brother. Then I started playing with Frontpage. At first it was very difficult. But the things changed quickly after I first came to know about CSS. It was almost the same time I started using editplus, and with its syntax highlighting, life became a lot easier. I started coding the entire page in Editplus. Even then, whenever I got stuck, I used to do the same thing in Frontpage and then study the code. And then my interest turned to Javascript and slowly to PHP.
html - did some complex signatures for my email way back when. from there i got into html css - paid someone to create a site in css for me but asked if they do a step then show me what they did and what it does. I'd ask questions if i wasn't sure. next step and so on and on. css is simple beyond the layout IMO.
Lots and lots of experimentation.. I was a page-builder newbie for a long time, and then I started to paste Dynamic Drive codes onto my websites, and I was curious about what was going on behind the scenes so I would just look through the Source. Over the course of a few years I picked it up. When I got into SEO I started to use Web 2.0 techniques and follow web semantics. www.w3schools.com is a fantastic resource as stated in a post above.