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I am a beginner. I want to learn HTML language. Could somebody recommend some books on that? |
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This is not a book but I think you can learn a lot from this site: HTML Tutorial Good luck! | |
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| Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Yeah, don't waste any money on books. That w3schools website is all you need to learn HTML.
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w3schools is great! There is html editor in it that allows you to try the codes and view the result. And it's free! |
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| Learning for Earning War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Brisbane Australia
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i would definitely look at the w3schools site as a great way to learn html. if you are looking for books on web design i find sitepoint.com a great spot. i find it pretty cheap cause you can just download a book in its pdf form if u want to do this. |
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I second Hally.... Learn basic HTML with online tutorials and when you get to CSS, design and more then turn to Sitepoint. Their CSS books helped me understand a lot when i was new to the game a few years back. |
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| copy and paste geek War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Calgary
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The best book I've seen is 'html, xhtml, and css' by Elizabeth Castro. It is really well organized and starts with the complete basics, but covers a lot up from there. You don't need to read it, just start putting up a page with as much as you know, and whenever you are stuck, look it up in the book. Like maybe how to get the header or the bar of color across the top. There isn't much difference between html and xhtml so the title might sound worse than it is. It is still usually the first one I pick up to look for info that I need. It isn't expensive, just about 15$ and Amazon has it, not sure about the bookstores. It is divided up into 2 columns, one has the code and comments, the other has screen shots of what the code looks like in a browser. It is just really nicely done. One of my first problems was "After you get your html on the notepad sheet, how do you see it as a web page?" Everybody assumes that everybody knows that so it usually isn't even mentioned, and it took awhile to find the answer which is: If your sheet is named mysite.txt, change the txt to html, ignore the dire warnings about changing a file extension, and then after you have changed it just double click on the new file name, mysite.html, and your default browser will open it as a web page. After I got her book I checked and sure enough she covered that step. best wishes, lloyd .......__o .......\<, ....( )/ ( )... |
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maybe try a Lynda.com video tutorials? I have learned lot of tutorials from the internet and it is totally free after learning HTML, the next step is..CSS, that's for sure |
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You'll find all you need on google... Make a search free HTML tutorials.. and search for examples if, by any chance, why you read you don't quiet get it, oin google like: "how to do 'something' in html" You'll find a lot there. Jocy |
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Look for Head First HTML w/ CSS. Its a great book for beginners, and very easy to follow. Heres a direct link to Amazon (no aff) you can also probably find a copy on ebay as well. |
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| Loves Kangaroo Fish War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Watertown, CT
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The book Ben Clemons gave is your best bet, seeing as your completely new to html and css. Then once you get the hang of it go get https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/05...ss_T15_product |
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I agree with everyone here. There some great tutorials online. I do like to have books handy as reference manuals. You can't beat grabbing your book, looking at the index and finding what you need.
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Great eBooks at a great price! Email me for a quote or work samples. peter@bridge-city-marketing.com Peter Anthony | |
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| Who'm I kidding? War Room Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Easthampton, Massachusetts
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I bought "Head First HTML" when I was starting out... but the book didn't, as I recall, inform me of the availability of free WYSIWYG editors like Composer, so for months I struggled and wrote a lot of bad HTML by hand on a very good program called HTML-Kit: which is not a WYSIWYG editor. HTML is something that's helpful to know for troubleshooting sites and doing cool things, so you can look at code and know what it's supposed to do and spot errors. But as a practical matter something like XSitePro will have you making good-looking websites a lot faster than an HTML book. |
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| Fred Acker War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008
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Hi DGillard, I can't help with any books but I can tell you that the way I learned was to grab some free templates (basic html, css, php and so on) and get inside them to see how they work. W3Schools Online Web Tutorials is a great resource for learning about tags and their functions. Just do a search for "free templates" "free css templates" or whatever you're interested in and you'll have the world of html at your fingertips. I'd recommend learning css along with your html right from the start. With css you can do some pretty amazing things like boxes and test formatting. Stay away from table-less themes for now (they can be very frustrating even for those who know how to do them). Good luck with your learning. Fred |
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| IT Freak Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Dirty South
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The book I recommend is the "HTML Black Book, by Steve Holzner" I see them for .89 cent used. Covers HTML, CSS, Java, and most anything website related. And as others have stated, you must put this into practice. Start looking at a lot of source code and figure out what is going on. I recommend Crimson Editor for working with files. It is free and killer at the same time. I have been using the book and the editor I mentioned for 6 years solid. Great book, great editor!
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I learnt HTML and CSS in a classroom for free...Like Fred_Acker said the best way to learn is to grab free simple templates and figure out how it works, make sure you take notes as you go along. Below are some of the resources that we used in the classroom. W3Schools Online Web Tutorials , CSS Zen Garden , Zen Garden/resources |
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