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Slmhofy
12-01-06, 04:29 PM
Did a quick search here and didn't find much. I was just wondering if any of you could point me in a good direction to learn HTML over this winter break (book or online articles, etc). I think it will help some next semester and I really didn't want to go the "HTML for Dummies" route, though for all I know, it might be a decent book.

TIA,
Slm
kayson
12-01-06, 04:33 PM
I learned HTML using a book and the website http://www.htmlgoodies.com

Start with the HTML Primer, then go through all of the html tutorials. That'll give you a solid handle on html. There's a great html reference at http://www.devguru.com/technologies/html/index.asp

If you have any specific questions feel free to send me a pm or catch me on aim.
Slmhofy
12-01-06, 04:39 PM
cool, thanks for the offer.
cliffboss
12-01-06, 04:47 PM
also google w3 school lots of stuff to do with websites
dylskee
12-01-06, 05:34 PM
also google w3 school lots of stuff to do with websites
Thats where I went also. http://www.w3schools.com/html/
ccb056
12-01-06, 06:30 PM
Just go to a bunch of websites, download the source, and fool around with it.

Thats how I learned...
fUzZ bUnNy
12-03-06, 01:26 AM
Open Source Web Design (http://oswd.org)

They have a ton of web pages that are free to use. A lot of them have clean coding underneath that is easy to follow.

Hope that helps!
drshivas
12-03-06, 01:38 AM
http://www.webmonkey.com/

They used to be prime-time in the dot com days, but they still have how-tos and references up.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/

This site is an excellent reference as well.

Good luck! My advice to you is make a pet project that will motivate you to practice and try new things. Think of something you can use- like put all your bookmarks in a webpage grouped by categories- and make it your homepage! Then try applying cascading stylesheets to your HTML to learn even more.
Enablingwolf
12-03-06, 02:21 AM
HTML is easy, really it is. No I am not bieng a smarty pants. Here let me show you how easy it is.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>

<title>Sample Title</title>
</head>

<body>
<!-- Crap on page shown to viewer -->
</body>

</html>

There is a basic html web page template. All ready to go! It validates to!

Now the hard part and what confuses most is the tags and styling. If your to type in google.com learn html... you will get super basic stuff that does not really address the tags and styles. I belive if your going to be using html, you should go right to the tags and learn that. There is not much to it actually, once the tags are learned.

A few things I would be looking for in terms of searches.

HTML tags (also xhtml tags, xhtml is much better)
html layout (also will bring other goodies with it, but learn css please)
CSS, tables and iframes ( I do not like iframes myself, but they are part of the html world)

HTML can be as simple as inserting .html at the end of a notepad name. It will dsisplay in all broswers and just show the text. Since html is mainly for text IIRC.. Once you get som complexity like tables and styling, then it gets where you better start reading.

You should as suggested above, create a design, and go from there. Learn elements as you have need or desire. I found no one guide wil be as good for a new user as getting in there and actually making pages. Unless you take a proper course, you will be dong this anyways. Even then you still have to create a page.

I would suggest learning xhtml instead of the old html. They are not the same but they are. It will give more flexabilty in design and control. Learn the tags first and how to use them. Then the rest will just fall into place.