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I've heard that html is easy as nothing! But still i think its so difficult, I practically don't understand anything! Then one day, i stumbled over this "forum" and thought I'd give it a shot,
Where do I start?
Probably the easiest way to do it now is to get a WYSIWYG program like Frontpage or Dream Weaver. Make a basic HTML page look like what you want to and then disect the HTML code.
I do the majority of my structure in Frontpage because it's a breeze to work with and then I hack the page apart using the frontpage HTML editor until I get it to look like I want it to look. Most of the time I use Notepad to do a lot of coding too.
[edited by: BlobFisk at 10:34 pm (utc) on Feb. 10, 2005]
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edit oh yea, and um... use google (or perfered search engine) all the time to figure stuff out, and these forums are elite.
Really you faked it?
- I learned from looking at code of already made sites, and from search engines. I've never read an html, css, php javascript book.
edit- fixed some typos
I read the book, because it was available. And I used it as a reference when I could figure things out, but that was before there was good informatoin available on serach engines too.
Using a WYSIWYG program will make you rely on it, then when you get into trouble you won't know what to do. A decent working knowledge of hand-coding html is essential.
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Everything that goes on your page should go in your body tag. these are only basic tags that you NEED.
Look up W3C Schools - this will show you all you need to know and give you examples. Good luck..
I started by using FrontPage but quickly began to write all my HTML in Notepad.
I also recommend learning to use CSS at the same time you are learning HTML - doing so will allow you to skip over a lot of the deprecated HTML tags.
Just because some HTML looks OK in this or that browser doesn't mean the mark-up is valid. I learned that the hard way. W3Schools works hard to give you accurate instructions for valid mark-up. You will not end up needing to un-learn anything in the future that way.
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Thanks.
