Understanding HTML/CSS Basics, Hep?

[RoseBlade]

I am new to CSS and have only fooled around with HTML in order to help with my MySpace Layout. I want to expand my knowledge and skill with HTML, but also learn the basics of CSS. My reason for wanting to learn CSS/HTML is because it interests me and I want to make a descent homepage for my Quizilla account. My problem is that I am having a lot of trouble following the instructions found on Google and I was hoping someone on here could give me much simpler instructions. My hope is to one day know enough to help others on here, but currently I can't help myself. Any help at all would be much appreciated and feel free to e-mail me too.

- BR


E-Mail: master_of_xenocide@hotmail.com

[Rappa]

well your best bet would to take some of the most basic tutorials out there and go over them until you understand. then if you want purchase a book on the language of your choice, theres literally hundreds of books on programming.

try these first:

HTML Basics (http://w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp) (learn first)

CSS Basics (http://w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp)

Thats pretty much as easy as it gets, you should read up on that first, if you feel comfortable you can go onto harder tutorials.

id advise getting a free subdomain to a site or somthing and practice some scripts.

and maybe if you practice really hard and memorize what you need, you can go onto harder languages such as javascript and maybe even php

good luck


-rappa

[RoseBlade]

Thanks for your help. I'll start reading that right now.

- BR

[rmedek]

That's a fairly loaded question. It's really easier to follow a tutorial from the ground up so you get some basic understanding. I love this HTML tutorial on HTMLdog; it's friendly and well-written and really follows a goal of teaching web standards: http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/

The biggest advice I can give to a newbie is to try to avoid getting excited about how things will look, but rather stay focused on wanting to get "the whole picture." That was the clearest concept for me once I started to get the hang of things, and really makes things move a whole lot faster.

The gist of things is this:

HTML defines, or "marks up" text on a page. CSS makes the HTML look pretty. Javascript adds a layer of functionality to the page, and can manipulate HTML and CSS on the fly. PHP, or other Server-Side Scripting, lets you code things on the server and, in the end, output HTML.

Hope this helps…