What's the best way to learn HTML?

You should try Lynda.com.

They have some great video tutorials that will help you out.

Hi Max,

Highly recommend the resources at 'W3 Schools', just give them a Google...

Some great HTML guides there and I haven't really needed any extra training since. Although saying that, I do use short cuts wherever possible.

Good luck

Jon

I remember my brother bought me a book called 'Html Goodies' (I believe)

It didn't work out too well for me, as I brushed it aside

Continued to struggle with html so I bought OptimizePress...

And after using the text editor in OptimizePress so much...

I finally got a hang of it.

So yeah, the cliché 'practice makes perfect' idea worked for me

(even though I still avoid html like the plague) :p

I figured the best way to learn is to work on real projects which are of interest to you personally and googling/finding the steps. This makes your learning very effient and highly practical unlike all those tutorials to follow.

I went to Amazon and picked up Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day: Includes New HTML5 Coverage. After going through the course I had a a much better understanding on HTML, CSS, and many other elements that goes into web design.

Though it's not necessary for success because you always outsource, I still think it's important to learn the basics of web design so that when you do outsource it, you know what to ask for and what to look for when the job is done.

RoD

Just out of curiosity: why do you want to learn HTML?

Unless you want to be a programmer/coder and/or website designer, deep diving into learning coding is a complete waste of time. It's like learning how to build a car because you want to buy/drive one.

Unless you want to be a programmer/coder and/or a designer, I strongly recommend you stay away from it. Teach yourself the very basics of HTML, but then forget it.

I'm truly not trying to rain on your parade. I'm dead serious. If you're looking to make good money online as fast as possible, deep diving into learning code isn't smart.

You're much better off using do-it-yourself solutions like WordPress and LeadPages. You can get started in minutes with them WITHOUT learning code. And the faster you get started, the faster you'll get to profits, which is what most Warriors need.

For the true geeks who really want to learn code, ignore everything I just said. But most Warriors have no business deep diving into learning code. Seriously.

Hope that helps!

Michelle

1) Stop what you're doing right now.
2) Download notepad++.
3) Start coding.
4) Thank AveryWilmer for giving you an awesome resource; codeacademy totally rocks and is a great way to just "DIVE IN" to all things web development.



//endrant

HTML isn't really a language, or code, in a true sense; that stuff is far more difficult to learn. It's really just markup.

I don't think there's a better online reference than W3Schools, really. The site covers HTML, CSS and other stuff fairly comprehensively and has live modifiable examples so you can tinker around and see how the changes you make affect the output.

And that's the best way to learn, if you ask me. That's how I did it - trial and error.

PHP and other scripting languages might call for a more structured approach, at least in the beginning, and for some of those I found the Developers' Library series (e.g. PHP & MySQL Web Development ) pretty helpful, but again, inquisitiveness was the glue that bound everything together, not robotic tutorial-following.

Like most stuff, once you grasp the foundations the rest just seems to fall into place as you learn new tricks on-the-fly.

Good luck.

Totally agree that w3schools.com is the best resource for HTML and CSS. Don't get too hung up on becoming a HTML expert you just need to know how tags are formatted and use the tag reference when you need it. Actually you'd be better off delving deeper into CSS instead which is much more relevant today as a skill.

Start basic with W3 Schools and then go for some advanced tutorials and build your own website.

With just simple programs and concept, you only know basics. To go for advanced level, i think you should practically make a website.

thank you for your great post.i am also want to learn HTML.thank you guys for some comments.really appreciate it.

Learn HTML/XHTML & CSS - Learn to write your own pages by hand it's easy.You can use FREE! HTML/XHTML/CSS Editor.

Ok, I'll bite ... I'm curious. Why do you think that "knowing HTML and other computer languages" would be a particularly good use of your time for an internet marketing journey?

I don't suggest there are any "right" or "wrong" answers. I'm just curious about what makes people decide this, because it's so very different from my own thinking.

I decided, when I started in 2008, that HTML was quite passé and unnecessary for a marketer to learn, very easily outsourceable at very low prices in a huge, international, competitive, buyers' market, and likely to become more so year-by-year (and I now think it has), and that a far better use of my time, effort and energy would be to become proficient at writing emails that sell. (Of course I was biased: I liked writing and disliked the look of things like HTML and didn't even know what the "other languages" were, and I wanted to learn something proximal to - not distant from - directly income-earning activities).

I ask because I'm slightly surprised to see someone saying what you've said, in 2014.

Of course, if you want to become a professional website designer, or something, that would make complete sense. But I don't think (from your original post above) that that's your intention, because you'd perhaps have said so, if that was the plan? So, why the interest in learning HTML "and other languages"? If you don't mind being asked ...

I learned html from a book and I used notepad for years as my editor and did not get an editor until I had to get Microsoft office for college. It is such a convenience to be able to edit just about anything that appears online.

No waiting to have some one else make the change.

I'm trained as a Microsoft engineer and my specialty is to design business systems and support for those systems. html is still the basic code and word press really does some butcher jobs on that code.

I rarely use wordpress because html is so much cleaner and loads much faster. I thought learning to use wordpress was harder than learning html.

I believe it is just an element that is the basis for being online and is important to have some knowledge in this area. At least enough to do some editing when needed.

Best regards,
Steve Yakim

I learned everything I know about HTML trough Youtube. This thing is like the Matrix's learning program

there are a lot of ways but basic is: read , watch , adapt and try. If you don't start coding , make changes , create something from scratch , by reading you will achieve nothing

Adobe Dreamweaver is a great software (although it costs some money) . W3school would be good start. HTML is easy to learn (compared to real programming languages like C# or C++)