where to start ?

jobless

hey all,

at the moment i'm learning some css and html from online tutorials. Eventually i'd like to try and develop my own website... very basic at first using css and html and then maybe add some bells and whistles later.

i'm just wondering if anyone could recommend me a book to get started?...ive never created a website from scratch, only modified existing ones... so im looking for one where ill learn best practice etc..

also could anyone recommend a good free editor?

p

Heads first XHTML & CSS is a great book.

Also, i'd recommend try to set up a Wordpress blog too - as that's a good wa to experiment without having to know HTML completely.

Notepad++ is a great free HTML editor.

Nulty

ConTEXT editor is pretty good.

Go to your nearest PC World and look at their books. Find one in the style you like and then look for favourable reviews. This is the way I always go about these things.

Any more questions, just task.


Notepad++ is great too but is there any setting for completing tags like =

type "<?php", pres space/enter and "?>" appears?

This worked on a free trial for one but cant find a free one that does it

jobless

thanks for the replies lads

p wrote: »

Heads first XHTML & CSS is a great book.

Also, i'd recommend try to set up a Wordpress blog too - as that's a good wa to experiment without having to know HTML completely.

Notepad++ is a great free HTML editor.

just looked this up on amazon, it was published in 2005... just wondering if id be missing out on anything new if i read this?

sheesh

if you are just starting off and its cheap and someone here recommends it you should be ok html has not changed that much since i started learning it in 1997 :eek: css had just started to be a standard then too html and css is just about layout of the page and its appearence so if you are just learning it I would go over to a site like http://www.oswd.org/ and try to replicate the designs there

but start slowly try to learn a couple of things about each tag and work from there.

remember in css to keep all the text lowercase remember to put the semi colon after each statment and the end curly bracket

get firebug. its free and makes it alot easier to track css errors


that should keep you entertained for a month or so.


I almost forgot
http://www.webmonkey.com/ is where i learned most of my HTML initially

jobless

thanks for the tips sheesh.... plenty to go on there.. cheers