Getting started with HTML?

[Maugan Ra]

Hi.

I've been wanting to learn HTML for while now, I tried once and I've learned little bits here and there, but nothing very helpful (the three things I had trouble with were links, menues and tables). So I'm wondering, what are some good sites or whatever, to start learning HTML? And I'm also open to any tips you might have.:)

Thanks.
Maugan.

[oesxyl]

http://www.w3schools.com/

xhtml + css + javascript

http://www.htmlhelp.com/

references for html 4.0, css, design

[Excavator]

An excellent tutorial written by a forum member here. (http://www.imanthony.com/tutorials/introtocss/lesson1.php)

[Mr. Bubble]

I think you should just go through some tutorials at w3schools.com, and then just keep on experimenting with building your own sites and getting used to coding properly. You'll pick it up soon, it's not that hard.

[ahallicks]

That's true enough. You get most of the knowledge you will need by actually sitting down with a computer and typing some code and seeing what happens. By all means follow tutorial examples to get you started on the basics, but from there you need to strike out on your own. View the source of every site you visit and learn how they use which tags for what. Specifically try and learn the correct way to go about things from the start, that being about semantics, clean code, and not using table for layout. Once you have got your head around that I think you need to look into CSS at an early stage too because that is how you style a website. There is no use learning HTML because there is nothing you can do with it, realistically, without CSS.

BonRouge (http://www.bonrouge.com) has some very useful tutorials, particularly in starting out with HTML and CSS