I'm currently going through the CSS tutorials on that site, having read the HTML one, and I have to say it's a great site. Everything is very well explained, and includes tips, notes, examples, and the chance to experiment with code. Awesome stuff!

Edited May 9, 201412 yr by stephen88eu

I wouldn't take everything on the site at face value. A lot of the information on there is inaccurate, or at least it was a while back, though I'm not sure if this is still the case.

 

Still, I guess it's a good place to get a basic overview of certain things. I liked working through learnlayout.com and the codeacademy.com tutorials too.

Edited May 9, 201412 yr by Paul Murray

Thanks for the links, Paul!

 

[EDIT] Could you give me examples of inaccuracies on w3schools if you can?

Edited May 9, 201412 yr by stephen88eu

Not off the top of my head. I think a lot of the 'errors' were related to PHP and possibly JavaScript, and these may have been fixed. Either way, it's best to cross-reference information, just for peace of mind

Thanks mate.

Dunno how current it is now but http://www.w3fools.com/

 

Codecademy is win.

 

And then theres codebabes...

Well what I can say is they probably did not make those mistakes intentionally. It's a great resource for me, and I think no site, especially such a large one with such vast information, is perfect.

 

W3Schools is awful and damaging for the web development community, it's content is very poor when compared to the likes of Mozilla Developer Network.

 

Just for your information W3Schools is in no way affiliated with the W3C, they themselves try to distance themselves from W3 Schools as much as they possibly can due to the lack of regular updates and are very slow to correct errors.

W3Schools is awful and damaging for the web development community, it's content is very poor when compared to the likes of Mozilla Developer Network.

 

I wouldn't say it's damaging per say, sure it has some inaccuracies, but consider that it's basically run by one man who started it in 1998 as a free resource for the community. It was one of few useful resources back in its day and has grown massively over the years. Of course with the amount of information it now holds it's inevitable that one man can't always be 100% accurate, or keep up with with ever changing information. Compare that to say the Sitepoint/Moz guides which are probably more on the ball but they are run by whole teams not just one person.

 

W3schools do provide facilities for reporting errors (see http://www.w3schools.com/about/about_helping.asp), but again it's one person updating so amendments won't always happen overnight, and of course it relies on the community to report things.

 

Personally I have appreciated the work that Refsnes Data has done over the years, it's actually one of the few sites I click ads on!

 

Just my 10p's worth

The content should be wiikified like some of the better resources are. Yes it might be impressive for a one man job, but would I recommend the resource to anybody? No.

 

w3fools.com explains far better than I ever could about why it's best to avoid it. http://www.w3fools.com/

I've heard some bad things about W3Schools, as mentioned already by rbrtsmith so I won't repeat everything he just said. But do be wary, and don't use it as your only learning source.

 

However, I still think w3schools can be a great resource. The way it is set up allows easy and fast learning and allows in-browser experimentation and practice. Occasionally when I forget the function of a specific value or tag I'll hop over to their website and they have very useful lists of available properties for each css value and html tags and et cetera.