HTML Guides?
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wyrd_fish
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tryhtml goodies and the w3 schools
You'll be wanting some decent programs to write yer pages and upload them with.
Filezilla is a very nice simple ftp client, and is free/open source.
notepad++ is a text editor with clever functions like syntax highlighting and folding. It's a step up from windows notepad, and it too is free/open source.
Filezilla is a very nice simple ftp client, and is free/open source.
notepad++ is a text editor with clever functions like syntax highlighting and folding. It's a step up from windows notepad, and it too is free/open source.
.Wilier.
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Daves HTML site is really straight forward, but quite basic.
Shovel
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W3Schools is ok, but sometimes misleading by including browser-specific, non-standard code in examples.
Personally, I rate HTML Dog as the best right now. See the 'Guides' in the left hand navigation. Start with HTML Beginners, and work through them in order (do the CSS ones too, CSS is what you use to control the appearance and layout of pages). It also has language references for HTML and CSS.
The main advantage of HTML Dog over others is that it actually teaches web standards (the site owner was the brains behind the recent @media conference in London). This is important because it means you learn to make pages in the best possible way and (better still) means you don't have to unlearn everything 6 months later when you discover that a tutorial on using the <font> element was bobbins. The <font> element, by the way, is never, ever used in modern web design.
Frustratingly, the web is filled with a lot of aged tutorials which are, in 2005, nothing short of wrong. From a quick look, HTML Goodies falls into that catagory; the first HTML Goodies demonstrates using the <b>, <i> and <tt> elements which, like font, grate against modern methods and will only have to be unlearned later.
Once you've got a grounding, there are books you could benefit from owning, but that's for another thread, after you've got to grips with the basics
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Personally, I rate HTML Dog as the best right now. See the 'Guides' in the left hand navigation. Start with HTML Beginners, and work through them in order (do the CSS ones too, CSS is what you use to control the appearance and layout of pages). It also has language references for HTML and CSS.
The main advantage of HTML Dog over others is that it actually teaches web standards (the site owner was the brains behind the recent @media conference in London). This is important because it means you learn to make pages in the best possible way and (better still) means you don't have to unlearn everything 6 months later when you discover that a tutorial on using the <font> element was bobbins. The <font> element, by the way, is never, ever used in modern web design.
Frustratingly, the web is filled with a lot of aged tutorials which are, in 2005, nothing short of wrong. From a quick look, HTML Goodies falls into that catagory; the first HTML Goodies demonstrates using the <b>, <i> and <tt> elements which, like font, grate against modern methods and will only have to be unlearned later.
Once you've got a grounding, there are books you could benefit from owning, but that's for another thread, after you've got to grips with the basics
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Shovel
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The Davesite one looks fine for getting the most basic 'this is an HTML tag' type lesson out of the way, but the actually HTML it's teaching is very out of date and things like <font>, <b> and <i> might get confusing when you have to learn not to use them afterwards.
That said, I'm not 100% sure. I mean, I know for definately that the code it's teaching you is bad but I don't know if that makes it any easy/difficult to learn in the long run. Ultimately, so long as you remain aware in the back of your mind that using <font> tags and so forth are something that you will stop doing very soon (as soon as you learn how to do it properly, basically), then it's probably fine.
That said, I'm not 100% sure. I mean, I know for definately that the code it's teaching you is bad but I don't know if that makes it any easy/difficult to learn in the long run. Ultimately, so long as you remain aware in the back of your mind that using <font> tags and so forth are something that you will stop doing very soon (as soon as you learn how to do it properly, basically), then it's probably fine.
Penguin
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I learnt some of the basics of HTML recently something i found very useful was 1st Page 2000. You can find it on http://www.evrsoft.com - I thought it was fantastic, i started off just wanting to create a basic website, but i learnt alot from it too. It has 4 modes, Easy, Normal, Advanced and Hardcore. It helped me learn the most common tags (creating tables, formatting etc.)
You create the website in HTML and you can preview it as you go along. Rather useful for testing things quickly.
Hope it helps,
Penguin.
You create the website in HTML and you can preview it as you go along. Rather useful for testing things quickly.
Hope it helps,
Penguin.