Ok, as of now I have always just looked up the html that I needed, and I have never really learned amost of it, other than very basic stuff. I have seen several websites out there that teach you how html, but some of them don't exactly seem to good. Does anyone have any places they recommend for learning how to write html?

My favorite source when you're first learning is W3Schools. The link will take you directly to the HTML tutorial.

The tutorials are quick and easy and you might not even realize you're learning while you're going through them, but I find if you take the time to go through them you do come out on the other side better at coding html.

When I was learning I picked up this book. Not the most exciting read, but it does explain everything about html/xhtml and can serve as a reference for awhile. I don't refer to it anymore, but I did at first.

When I was first starting out, this site helped me.
http://htmlgoodies.com/

Others:

http://htmlcenter.com/tutorials/index.cfm/main

http://www.htmldog.com/

Just thought I would add another one:
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com

i like this link http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/ it helps me alot.

w3schools has been pretty much my first and last stop for references to everything I would need to know. I rarely need to search google for a method I'm trying to execute. w3schools taught me javascript, php, html, html dom, mysql, and DHTML. Just start from the beginning and go to the end. What I normally do is have notepad++ open and do what they're tying to teach me, which helps reinforce the information so you won't have to look everything up constantly.

Ok, thanks a lot guys. I will start a little bit now, and then in about a month when finals are over I will start to get a lot more into it. After I get html down I will see where to go after that. I want to eventually learn to code php for my forums.

I can already see this is going to be a long road I can tell as I learn some basic html that to make a decent website I have to know different scripting and several other things.

For PHP, I'd recommend a book by Larry Ullman called PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Websites. If you use a book and go through the tutorials, I think you'll have a better grasp than you might just from tutorials on the web. Web tutorials are good, but they haven't been edited and won't always teach you all the fundamentals.

smashking the learning never ends, but I think most of us find that part of the fun of building websites.

After html I would suggest learning css next. Eventually when you build a site you want to use html for the structure and css for the presentation. So html will define that a certain piece of content should be a level 1 heading and the css will define how a level 1 heading should look.

Once you have html and css down start looking into the scripting languages. You can really pick up new things in any order you want and you'll find yourself coming back to each for more learning all the time.

In the beginning it seems like there's too much to learn, but if you stick with it you'll learn the basics faster than you think. Don't feel overwhelmed. We were all exactly where you are now at some point.

And we'll always be happy to help answer questions you have along the way.

Thanks I didn't expect it to be easy, but I guess I just didn't realize there were so many different languages and aspects. I actually just went through the basic html today, and I've actually learned quite a bit already. And I also learned just from stuff I had looked up recently that I really know more than I think I do.

There's definitely a lot to learn, but do hang in there. You'll be surprised how much faster it can be to learn enough than it first seems. You won't have to master everything to build good sites, though the more you build them the more you will want to master as much as you can.

I'm glad you're already learning html. I think going through the tutorials will help you see you do know more than you realize. You just haven't seen it all together so it's hard to know how much you already know.

9ice One Guys, the w3school site has been very help. Keep it up guys.

Thanks again. For the most part everything so far seems easy to understand, it is just the matter of being able to remember how to do everything, as it takes so long to look it all up.

The more times you type it all out the easier it gets to remember, though you'll always be looking up something. I still forget things all the time and do a quick search to find how to code something I don't use that often.

After learning basic (very basic) stuff, the best way is hands on. As in looking at the code and try and understand how it functions

Good point Gilligan. One of the things I used to do more, but still do is whenever I see a web page doing something that I like I look at the source and see how they did it.

Maybe you see a layout you like and wonder how it was put together. Bookmark the site and when you have time look at the source and see if you can understand how the page was put together. At first it may be confusing, but the more code you look at the easier it becomes to read code in general and the quicker you can see how other sites are put together.

Originally Posted by vangogh

smashking the learning never ends, but I think most of us find that part of the fun of building websites.

Interestingly, when HTML was the dominant scripting language, I learned by studying code and editing it to see what it did.

Now, CSS is more dominant than HTML (of course, with HTML at its core). I'm a bit lost.

HTML is still dominant. Use can use CSS to apply colours and what have you. But HTML puts it all together.

CSS makes it pretty, HTML controls it.

The 1st two links posted, w3schools and htmlgoodies are what I used several years ago when I first started learning html. I suggest you start there.