age 17, not yet out of high school, and interested in learning HTML and maybe taking a college course on it, however i would like to get a head start to learn some of the basic things first so i know what i would be getting myself into, and was hoping that one of you might know the best/most accurate website or program that teaches basic: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You just walked into a bar in Dodge City and yelled, "So, y'all, what's the best gun?"
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Do the tutorials there in HTML, CSS, and XHTML, in that order. Create your own web pages to experiment on as you go through the tutorials.
Regularly read the stuff on http://alistapart.com . You won't understand it all, particularly at first, but it'll keep you tuned in to best practices.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Oh, I forgot: no asking a question here about something unless you've done the section of a tutorial on that thing and taken a look at the HTML, XHTML and/or CSS references (on w3schools) in order to try to figure it out yourself.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
[ February 08, 2005, 10:49 PM: Message edited by: James Tiberius Kirk ]
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
I am extremely skeptical of htmlgoodies as a good place to learn anything; while they get most of the basics right, their grasp of anything even moderately advanced is tenuous at best and frequently wrong, and their "more advanced" articles (such as any of the ones on XML) tend to be littered with major errors.
Plus, even though most of the basics are right, they teach the extensive use of deprecated styling practices in their HTML tutorials, resulting in hard to modify and update pages. This is stuff that even most table adherents have moved into the CSS because there's simply not a single good reason to put visual text style tags in the HTML.
Posted by Risuena (Member # 2924) on :
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Everytime I see this thread title, I get this urge to listen to Black Sabbath (and I've never had this urge before).