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Hit the site search link here, and you'll likely get the same (if not better) information for free :)
Thank you! No offence taken!
PS: below this Message Block, I have 3 options to tick, one of them says "Disable [codes] for this message?" what does that mean?
(It's just that I have never come across this before)
Welcome to WebmasterWorld. I've sent you a sticky mail with some info I recently wrote up for someone more or less in your position - starting from scratch.
Basically, HTML is the backbone of the web, and the first thing I recommend you learn. Everything else from there becomes optional and you'll start to identify your next thing to learn according to your own priorities, but if you follow this through you will at least get a grounding in the basic language, some of the terminology, etc.
It will certainly help a lot of what we talk about here at WebmasterWorld start to fall into place for you.
I managed passable HTML within 24 hours of starting it really is that easy
Learn HTML and your done
Um, that might be over-simplifying just a little.
the more I read emails that propose money making ventures via your own Website
Go VERY carefully there.
Ask yourself, if I had a really great way of making big money with my website, would I send out unsolicited mail to people offering to tell them what is was? Keep in mind the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.
Making a website and making money from a web site are vastly different things. There are very, very few who 'get rich quick'. Lots of people earn anything from a good second income to an extremely good sole income from a website or websites, but only after a LOT of work - long, long hours, constantly learning, never letting up. It can be lonely, frustrating, insecure, exhausting, even terrifying, but also satisfying and very exciting. It can even be all of those in a single day!
Many, many more people start, thinking that working from home earning money online sounds pretty cool, but fall by the wayside when they realise how much sheer hard work and persistence is involved.
Good luck with your efforts, you have certainly been lucky to find this place so early on.
paulitza said: ..."Disable [codes] for this message?" what does that mean?
Every once in a great while, the style of whatever you're posting requires that the forum script not interpret what you're typing according to their formatting codes.
For instance, on some forums, the numeral "8" followed by an end-parenthesis is interpreted automatically as being a "smiley face".
But if you're listing eight or more items, you might want "8)" to indicate "and the eighth thing on the list is..." rather than "LOL". In such a case, you would disable the codes.
Hope that helps a bit.
Eliz.
There are very, very few who 'get rich quick'. Lots of people earn anything from a good second income to an extremely good sole income from a website or websites, but only after a LOT of work - long, long hours, constantly learning, never letting up. It can be lonely, frustrating, insecure, exhausting, even terrifying, but also satisfying and very exciting. It can even be all of those in a single day!
That's what I'm driving at here:
[webmasterworld.com...]
The first thing to learn is html. It's the programming language to create the website. It's easy to learn.
Then i'd suggest learning CSS programming.
It allows you to control the entire site design better. For example if you had 100 pages and you decided to change the colors of the pages, you could do this through a single file. If you did not use css, you would have to change each individual page one by one. Way too much work. It also reduces the coding for the pages. This makes the site load a bit faster(the time before you see all the data on the screen.) which in turn helps keep visitors from leaving because it takes too long to load.
Lastly, SEO. That is learned here on webmasterworld. It is the place where i learned most of the SEO i use.
It will take a little effort on your part, but if you want to learn everything, stick with it. Read everything you can on this site and ask questions. It will be worth it.
Here is a thread to start you off: [webmasterworld.com...]
Hope this helps you out and good luck:)
frenzy77
Those are like trainer wheels.
There are tons of people out there that never managed to take off those trainer wheels.
Not knowing HTML, they couldn't even see where their brains-in-a-box went wrong.
You might start by copying a page you like (do NOT copy the content)
and seeing how each line of code works by playing with it. Its kinda fun really. -Larry
PS: When everything turns to sh**, you can always come back here.
Eliz.
However, I started with a free WYSIWYG editor from AOL and eventually bought Dreamweaver 3. I learned HTML naturally as the editors weren't producing what I wanted and I had to look under the hood to figure it out. Eventually, I gave up static pages altogether and started using scripting languages to produce pages on the fly, and that meant really learning HTML and CSS myself, but that was pretty far into the porcess.
So first you need to have an idea and you need to generate content. Then you need how to get that one the web. Then you need to learn how to get it discovered by the "web" out there. In the process, you'll naturally learn HTML as you need it, but I wouldn't bother going out and studying HTML per se.
Just get yourself Nvu (free) or Dreamweaver or FrontPage and start writing and building. See if you can make anything of it. There's time to learn HTML as you go.
