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I have been trying to teach myself HTML for a while now, tutorials, F.A.Q.s and a few published paperbacks were all I had to go by as I was not going to pay some professor to teach me what I could learn on my own for free. Banging my head against a wall would have been more productive... until about a week ago.
It's like when you try and learn a second language... you keep recognising it as a foreign language until one day it "clicks"... well that was sometime last week.
The "HTML" light went on and now, while I am not completely fluent in HTML, you can no longer talk about my mother in front of me with it.
Anyway, with my new found understanding I started to research the other aspects of website coding, like .php, javascript, cgi, still trying to figure out what htmlmx (or is it mxhtml?) is, and so on. looking for information on Domain registration as well as copyright information on images. I was directed to these forums. I always look for websites with communities as they are often 10 times more helpful than a static FAQ.
It pleases me that there is so much content and knowledgable people on hand. Just giving you all a wave hello...
...and to let whoever needs to know, to register my screen name I couldn't use my Hotmail.com account, despite it suggesting I could "we allow use of free email like Yahoo and Hotmail". It doesn't help me now, but maybe for future new users.
-no matter. I am here, I am a natural lurker, but I am here.
Oh, and to **** yourself laughing. I am using a pentium "MMX" processor (that's right, 167mhz baby) on a laptop who's CD-Rom drive is broken, the back end of it's 2gig HD is starting to corrupt (I had to move everything vital forward on the disk), and the max resolution is 800x600 (laughed at the 800x600 or 1024x768 thread).
while I am not completely fluent in HTML, you can no longer talk about my mother in front of me with it.
Hehe - well said.
I am using a pentium "MMX" processor (that's right, 167mhz baby) on a laptop who's CD-Rom drive is broken, the back end of it's 2gig HD is starting to corrupt (I had to move everything vital forward on the disk), and the max resolution is 800x600
Wooh - that thing runs better than my first car! I had to get rid of it when it started having problems getting up the small hill on the way to my university. :)
like .php, javascript, cgi, still trying to figure out what htmlmx (or is it mxhtml?) is, and so on.
PHP and MySQL - very very nice to code a web site in. Blazing fast, and nothing (that I know of) that you can't do. But then, you have to love Unix in order to love PHP.
Welcome to Webmasterworld [webmasterworld.com]
I am sure you will find lots of valuable knowledge as you go along.
n-joy
Shak
I've just joined the forum and this looks like a good place
to start!
Like you, (and no doubt millions of others) I taught myself
HTML from info on the web and have a site that includes
some Javascript and CSS - but beyond that, everything else
is a foreign language to me.
I've been reading posts for a couple of months now and
would just like to thank everyone for the valuable knowledge that they have shared.
I've been here @ WW about a month myself and have learned a lot and hopefully also spread a little knowledge. It was great reading your posts - really, i mean it ;) It made me think for a while... I started "this silly web thing that i like to do" ages ago but i still recall the first steps. Believe me, once you've learned one thing there's another, and then another, and then... This silly web thing is so huge that even the people knowing really really much don't know anything close to all.
I'm sure that both of you can already teach a trick or two and not just to the moms of this world. Maybe some of the topics in here are a bit advanced, but there are nice people around and questions do get answered, so i'll stick for a while myself. See you out there :)
/claus
