Learning HTML

For fun and to add something to my CV I'm self learning 'basic' HTML. I don't want to go too crazy, I'm pretty dumb after all.

So far I have been using this website :

http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/

I wondered if you've got any suggestions...

Thanks.

HTML is a good start to learn the usage of tags and stuff but it's getting a pretty outdated skill nowadays. To be honest learning how to use a content management system would probably more beneficial for you in the long term if you're gonna pursue creating websites and that ...

Yeah, i was thinking that you can do a lot these days, without touching a line of code.

So maybe on your CV it could say. "Web Design".

http://www.w3schools.com/

This is a really great place to learn HTML. And once you've learned enough of that, you can move onto JavaScript and CSS...

  On 5/1/2011 at 12:43 AM, Rhombix said:

http://www.w3schools.com/

 

This is a really great place to learn HTML. And once you've learned enough of that, you can move onto JavaScript and CSS...

w3schools is full of crap, I really wouldn't recommend using that to learn and especially not as a reference. (see: http://w3fools.com/)

I can't remember how I used to learn HTML. But I'd just recommend getting/downloading a book by a trustworthy publisher (eg: O'Reilly.) The problem is that a lot of those books will have chapters with very outdated information. (frames, applets, old deprecated doctypes etc.) In the end, HTML isn't hard, it's just a bunch of XML tags that the browser can render. Mastering CSS will take a bit of time though.

I wouldn't say it's an outdated skill. If you are a designer, it can be beneficial in some companies if you can also slice your designs and hand them to the developers. But getting it right is important. Think about semantics and make clean markup and efficient stylesheets.

EDIT: This is pretty good: http://htmldog.com/

  On 5/1/2011 at 12:26 AM, mcbpete said:

HTML is a good start to learn the usage of tags and stuff but it's getting a pretty outdated skill nowadays. To be honest learning how to use a content management system would probably more beneficial for you in the long term if you're gonna pursue creating websites and that ...

i dunno, it always comes back to HTML with CSS and some sort of framework language like ruby/PHP/ASP/perl/whatever is presently fashionable at the end of the day. learning a CMS without understanding the underlying framework just seems weird to me. but my opinions may be outdated, i'm not a web dev.

http://htmledit.squarefree.com/

This is good. You can instantly see what your code is doing while you type it.

Cool, thanks for the help. Luckily, I'm going into an industry that is fairly behind on technology!

I've been meaning to do this too; it's been trial-and-error and minor theft for a while now...

I did learn a bit of coding in school, but I had forgotten most of it. I'm aiming to learn most of it this summer, see how far I get without crumbling.

  On 5/1/2011 at 1:47 AM, Ego said:

  On 5/1/2011 at 12:43 AM, Rhombix said:

http://www.w3schools.com/

 

This is a really great place to learn HTML. And once you've learned enough of that, you can move onto JavaScript and CSS...

w3schools is full of crap, I really wouldn't recommend using that to learn and especially not as a reference. (see: http://w3fools.com/)

 

I can't remember how I used to learn HTML. But I'd just recommend getting/downloading a book by a trustworthy publisher (eg: O'Reilly.) The problem is that a lot of those books will have chapters with very outdated information. (frames, applets, old deprecated doctypes etc.) In the end, HTML isn't hard, it's just a bunch of XML tags that the browser can render. Mastering CSS will take a bit of time though.

 

I wouldn't say it's an outdated skill. If you are a designer, it can be beneficial in some companies if you can also slice your designs and hand them to the developers. But getting it right is important. Think about semantics and make clean markup and efficient stylesheets.

 

EDIT: This is pretty good: http://htmldog.com/

That w3fools website is stupid, it doesn't realize that w3schools is good for a summarization of various web tags. It shows you what's supported by different browsers, which is important if you want full compatibility.

Either way the w3fools website makes one good point, that W3 is good and if you want sites that are 100% compatible you should test them here: http://validator.w3.org/

I'd say if you can make pages that are 100% compliant (which most sites these days aren't anyways) then you know HTML well enough, and w3schools is definitely a good resource.

But yeah web development is moving towards AJAX and stuff like that, and PHP/mySQL database management, if you can learn those two things it'd be nice. I've self taught myself most things for HTML and PHP, but I want to learn mySQL integration with PHP, since flat files have some disadvantages... The Internet evolves every day though so you're lucky if your industry doesn't need the full capabilities!

rixxx here is a guid a found for learning html in 5 seconds

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how to make html in 5 seconds

 

html tags are like a bag, you can put in other bags and the egdes of the bags are pointy things which says what kind of bag it is like <h1></h1> is a header bag. you cant put a 1/2 bag in another bag it doesnt make sense. html is just a of smaller bags in bigger bags. <html></html> is the biggest bag. u can put words in the bags or special balls which are like a bag without a wall and they look like this <img /> they got the pointy things still but there is only 1. thats it now all you have to do is learn the different bags and balls

Good luck :sup:

yeah, I don't need metaphors. Its cool.

I'll keep learning until stop getting 'fun' out of it. I think I'll go quite far, I don't like quitting.

Thanks for all the help guys, I knew you'd know a thing or two about this.

I'm in my second semester of HTML at the city college. I find it kind of boring, at least how we are learning. We just finished CSS. I mainly want the skill for my resume, and to make a personal website. Not so much looking to be a "Web Designer". I've gotten what I wanted out of it.

But after doing my programming classes, web design just isn't challenging. We have a mix of young in old and that class, and it seems like everyone is struggling. FFS, you just put a tag where you want a certain thing, and bam, that's about it. Know your rules, if you aren't sure there are 10000000 websites with the info you need, and then there is the validator.

Focus more on content and how you want to provide it, and then go from there.

  On 5/1/2011 at 11:06 PM, Kcinsu said:

you just put a tag where you want a certain thing, and bam, that's about it.

Yep, pretty much