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What's a good place to learn website design online ?

by Maverick416
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I want to learn basic html & css. As I have been told these are the basic languages to start with
#design #good #learn #online #place #website
  • Profile picture of the author wellm97
    w3school.com is a good source for beginners. you can learn allot from there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Azlan
    try lynda dot com
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  • Profile picture of the author harshmaur
    lynda.com and w3schools.com are the best places to learn it.

    And setting up the localhost is the best way to practice it.
    Let me know if you are unaware about setting up localhost.
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  • Profile picture of the author admin@subashseo.com
    I prefer you w3schools dot com
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    • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
      Another really good method is to install Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Which is A WYSIWYG editor very much like Dreamweaver except that it' a whole lot better than Dreamweaver And it produces very clean code even when you use the drag & drop features in the "Design" mode Though you will soon find that you are using almost exclusively "code" view. however the ability to build pages in "design " mode and then tweak the code in "code" view greatly facilitates learning HTML and CSS. Like I said you will quickly find that you are working almost exclusively in "code" view. After you start messing around with your editing software go find some tutorials on the web that show how to do stuff. and practice building those things. In the process you will find that you are learning how to build web pages. There are lots of tutorial sites on the web this is one I have used often HTML Tutorial - Introduction For instance whenever I get stumped on something or something isn't working the way I expect it to work I've found this site useful mostly because I've used it before and am familiar with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author crayzrocker
    W3schools can be a good place to start, but keep in mind, some of what they teach is incorrect (source: w3fools.com).

    Youtube is also an excellent place. Just search for "html tutorials".

    Then there's also Tizag: tizag.com/htmlT/ <-- this is the best place to start, in my opinion.

    I would not recommend Lynda as it will break your wallet and you can accomplish the same thing for free (learning web design).

    Learn HTML first, and once you're comfortable with that, move on to CSS. Both are pretty easy and you should be a master in no time!

    For "web design" specifically, Photoshop (or Gimp as a free alternative) would be a great (perhaps even necessary) software to master.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joel Young
      Originally Posted by crayzrocker View Post

      W3schools can be a good place to start, but keep in mind, some of what they teach is incorrect (source: w3fools.com).
      Whoah... I'm going to stop recommending w3schools, and remove it from my bookmarks as a reference! I go to it very rarely anyway, but now I see it's useless.
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      • Profile picture of the author crayzrocker
        Originally Posted by Joel Young View Post

        Whoah... I'm going to stop recommending w3schools, and remove it from my bookmarks as a reference! I go to it very rarely anyway, but now I see it's useless.
        I was also shocked when I found this out. I used to use it ALL the time. It's ridiculous how a site spreading incorrect information can be such an authority in the field.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
        Originally Posted by Joel Young View Post

        Whoah... I'm going to stop recommending w3schools, and remove it from my bookmarks as a reference! I go to it very rarely anyway, but now I see it's useless.

        OK I am curious. Why do you say this? Frankly i never really went there very much simply because teh way it was organized made it difficult to find what I was usually looking for i.e. step by step examples in my early days of learning html /CSS i really needed to see it implemented and put into action in order t understand it and typically most tutorials on the web just assumed too much basic understanding on my part. So I would scour the web looking for tutorials that gave simple straight forward instructions that even the most dim witted moron (me) could follow. Of course now days we have Youtube. And another free source which oddly enough is very good for learning HTML / CSS even though their main goal is to teach ASP and that is ASP.NET Their tutorials section is unbelievable it's a massively huge free library of video tutorial on ASP and web application. It will teach you all there is to know about very high end websites. Literally hundreds of hours of video all free.
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        • Profile picture of the author Joel Young
          Originally Posted by ronc0011 View Post

          OK I am curious. Why do you say this?
          Because of this:
          Originally Posted by crayzrocker View Post

          W3schools ... some of what they teach is incorrect (source: w3fools.com).
          I checked it out, and sure enough there is quite a bit of misinformation on w3schools.

          My journey of learning web design is much like yours, actually. So even though I never relied on one specific source, w3schools was one of the few that I bookmarked as "reliable". But now I know the difference, thanks to crayzrocker.
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  • Profile picture of the author steliodj
    Originally Posted by Maverick416 View Post

    I want to learn basic html & css. As I have been told these are the basic languages to start with
    As said w3schools is ok to start learning, youtube also is amazing for this...i wish we had youtube back when i was start programming

    And also if you need any premium/paid courses treehouse is awesome: https://teamtreehouse.com/


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  • Profile picture of the author rain21
    w3schools is the best place for you
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    • Profile picture of the author Joel Young
      Originally Posted by rain21 View Post

      w3schools is the best place for you
      ...he said, after failing to read previous posts about w3schools being full of incorrect information.
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      • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
        another really handy site is BarelyFitz Designs / Patrick Fitzgerald in fact there is a really good tutorial/ explanation of the CSS position element. also some really good tutorials on some javascript stuff like slideshows and some PHP stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author vjboc
    You can definitely get alot of good tips here from the forum as well.
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