I am quite knowledgeable with XHTML and css and my friend who is starting to get interested in website asked how she should go able learning html and css.

What do you personally recommend to learn?

I suggested lynda.com

Read the forum stickies in this and the CSS forum.

Try w3schools.com thats how I learned back in the day.

Use Tizag they have a good html and css tutorial.

All good suggestions. I always forget about w3schools and Tizag and other sites similar. I refer to those sites a lot but I never think to recommend learning from there. Stickies in the forum are also a good idea.

I always recommend html dog, search it up.

HTML Dog is good too. I don't know if I would want to learn from w3schools and similar sites though. I feel like those sites are more for reference and not to learn step-by-step. But that is just my opinion.

Originally Posted by mcook

HTML Dog is good too. I don't know if I would want to learn from w3schools and similar sites though. I feel like those sites are more for reference and not to learn step-by-step. But that is just my opinion.

I agree with your opinion, I am not faulting w3schools because I also have learned from them, but the references are snippets here, snippets there, nothing for putting a very simple webpage together from the beginning to the end for the beginner, and they can actually see what they are coding.

Didn't mean to have a duplicate Chris, was doing some changes in my post, apparently two posts went out.

Go to Borders and buy a book, if you like to read....

I suggest tizag.com or w3schools.com

Originally Posted by bdg1115

Try w3schools.com thats how I learned back in the day.

Agreed

I recommend book, may html for dummies is suffice. And HTML and css is the fundamental language one should be thorough with... when starting web design

You guys might laugh at me because of this, but I learned on this website (around 8-9 years ago ) http://www.lissaexplains.com/

Ton of useful information for beginners in there

Tizag.com and w3schools.com taught me everything i needed until i started getting into PHP a bit more, then there a tutorials galore online for that and MySQL(basics also covered on these websites).

I think you should learn the php for creating the web sites.

Originally Posted by zeeshan_2011

I think you should learn the php for creating the web sites.

You can't create website with PHP!

You CAN use PHP to create the HTML for the site of course.

I have been doing webdesign since July 2009 and the way I learnt is,

1. Youtube was my first step (it is easy to learn while seeing what the person is doing

2. w3schools.com is where I learnt more

3. Here is where I ask about things if I can't get things to work.

I should close the thread there.

Stated by a cook, finished off by a Chef


(just need a KP to wash up now)