Thinking of learning..

[Frank459]

So as the title says, im thinking of getting into the layouts and coding side of websites, just a quick question for all you coders and layout artists - what did you first use to learn or what are your favourite methods for people like myself who are just starting?

Ill be looking through the tutorials section and also googling but some advice would be nice :)

Cheers,
Frank/Scott

[-leestrong-]

Notepad, and still notepad strangely enough.
Good luck!

- Lee

[Pazza]

These are good websites for coding:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com (http://www.htmlgoodies.com/) - This is what I used, and you learn in steps so you take in much more ;)

http://www.tizag.com (http://www.tizag.com/) - I didn't know about this when I learned, although It ranges all languages, again in steps so its easy to learn. You can even download an eBook.

[Excellent2]

I never really looked around for tips on how to design. My first design that I posted here was absolutely disgusting and I got ripped apart for it. A lot of people gave me comments on it and ways I could improve and thus, I learnt.

The best thing to do with design is take inspiration from other websites. By inspiration I don't mean rip the whole thing but you can take sed design and tune it to your standards.

Criticism and comments are the best way for you to learn so post them here and you'll be given ways how you can improve your design.

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I learnt my HTML from w3schools and my CSS from kk. on here. If you want to learn PHP etc, I recommend tizag and php.net.

Goodluck :)!

[Mentor]

I'll +1 pazza's http://www.htmlgoodies.com recommedntion as its also the place i first started out :p

If your new to html i'd recommend avoiding IDE's like the plaige, there useful time savers but at this stage it'll ether confuse you or getting it to do half the work for you (often very badly)
For windows Notepad++ has everything youd want; nice syntax highlighting, tabs and its pretty light. ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm ), on Linux Gedit has everything you would ever really want tucked away in its options and for Mac i cant really comment as i rarely use it.

[CANNIBALEX]

I got one of them pocket sized books on HTML programming when i was 11 and read that and tried things to learn the fundamentals.

I recommend that's the first thing you do. become comfortable with html, make a few layouts for fun, become comfortable with css, make a few layouts for fun, become comfortable with php, make layouts combining all these elements.

I guess my point is; you've got to realise theres learning to be done before you go 'releasing' layouts