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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:49 pm    Post subject: Learning HTML Websites Reply with quote

I used some website back in high school, that taught you HTML from basic to advance but I can't recall what it was called. Totally sucks.

I need to review some material, do you guys know any websites?

Hopefully, someone will post the website I am thinking about.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could start from http://www.w3.org. IIRC there are some tutorials lurking there.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

are you thinking of the barebones guide?

http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lau wrote:
You could start from http://www.w3.org. IIRC there are some tutorials lurking there.


I shall check it out. thanks
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

alex wrote:
are you thinking of the barebones guide?

http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html


site looks good, but it is not the one I am thinking of.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I learned with this one a few years back. http://www.w3schools.com/
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

did it have orange dots as page numbers?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about htmlgoodies.com. It's a pretty good site.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Webmonkey.com?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wrote:
http://www.w3.org
This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Alex wrote:
http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html
Failed validation, 13 Errors

Panzyo wrote:
I learned with this one a few years back. http://www.w3schools.com/
Failed validation, 13 Errors

Kiski wrote:
What about http://www.htmlgoodies.com
Failed validation, 169 Errors

matt wrote:
Webmonkey.com?
Failed validation, 130 Errors
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The w3schools site isn't valid XHTML?

Guess they had to screw up somewhere...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

HTML is handy to know for being able to quickly fix layout issues. I still teach HTML to my editors for managing formatting glitches (when a WYSIWYG interface has placed the off tag in the wrong place for example), but building sites from scratch with HTML is very last century.

I'd recommend learning about Drupal if you want to build serious websites for $$. It's a free open source community platform and is excellent. I use it in my own company and it's currently a big secret in the web building world:

http://mohawkmedia.co.nz/drupal
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree...learning how to use open source content management systems can save you a lot of time for the kinds of sites that about 90% of people seem to want these days.

Drupal, as mentioned, is pretty good. Joomla / Mambo is another.
Also, Moodle is good for education based sites.
And WordPress is good for blogs, but also with the right template it works well for a lot of other classes of sites (e-zines, band sites, promotional sites, news sites, etc, probably because most of them are really just special cases of blogs).
And of course you have ZenCart and osCommerce for e-commerce sites.

That said, once you learn basic HTML, you might want to decide to refine programming (server side scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and / or server side application stacks such as Java, .NET would be good to pick up, as well as JavaScript for client side scripting), and / or design (XHTML, CSS, as well as tools of the trade such as Photoshop, Flash, etc) would be a good idea as well as this will give you the flexibility to be much more creative with your web development.
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