HTML Tutorial for complete newbie recommendation

am 19.11.2007 13:49:36 von mrcakey

My friend is wanting to get into HTML, so I bought him a domain/hosting
package for his birthday. I'd like to recommend a good place for him to
start.

Is there anyone here who's "started from scratch" recently and if so,
are there any sites you'd recommend?

Of those I Googled, this one
http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html looked the most promising
though given that he's technically minded I think it might be a bit TOO
low level.

+mrcakey

Re: HTML Tutorial for complete newbie recommendation

am 19.11.2007 15:24:43 von lws4art

+mrcakey wrote:
> My friend is wanting to get into HTML, so I bought him a domain/hosting
> package for his birthday. I'd like to recommend a good place for him to
> start.
>
> Is there anyone here who's "started from scratch" recently and if so,
> are there any sites you'd recommend?
>
> Of those I Googled, this one
> http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html looked the most promising
> though given that he's technically minded I think it might be a bit TOO
> low level.

Unfortunately, many are very flawed with outdated or just plain
incorrect information.

Best found so far are at www.htmldog.com

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Re: HTML Tutorial for complete newbie recommendation

am 19.11.2007 16:35:13 von Toby A Inkster

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Best found so far are at www.htmldog.com

I can second that.

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Re: HTML Tutorial for complete newbie recommendation

am 20.11.2007 01:50:24 von BobaBird

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:49:36 +0000, +mrcakey wrote:

>My friend is wanting to get into HTML, ...
>
>Is there anyone here who's "started from scratch" recently and if so,
>are there any sites you'd recommend?

When I started learning, my focus was on trying to unravel the mystery
of all those tags, and how to use them.

Learn good practices such as using tags that represent the structure
of the content. Examples:

instead of

Page Title

instead of

Page Title

More at http://fadtastic.net/2006/10/19/the-semantic-code/

Once he's written some code, validate it at http://validator.w3.org/ .

I first heard, or maybe I should say stopped ignoring mention, of
Cascading Style Sheets about 2 years ago and was surprised to learn
CSS has been the standard for the last 10 years. I would encourage
learning HTML alongside CSS to save from having to unlearn some of the
old methods.

See http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?CSS_FAQs
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