May 19, 201511 yr Hi there, I'm rather new to web designing but it's something I've always wanted to try and learn and get my head around it. I wouldn't mind in the future maybe turning this into a career if I can pick it up easily enough. So I'll be lurking around on the forums and trying to pick bits up from people. Pleasure to meet you all
May 19, 201511 yr Author I forgot to put in the first post - Where is a good place to look for videos/tutorials to progress in HTML & CSS. I have a little bit of knowledge about HTML but nothing about CSS. Is there any good books out there to read? I have a lot of spare time at work so reading is a good option.
May 26, 201511 yr Welcome! there are a lot of good websites for learning html & css such as w3schools and code academy. If you like books i recommend "HTML & CSS" by Jon Ducket, his book set is £20 on amazon at the moment. I have bought his book set and they are amazing, they are very easy to understand. Theres a sample chapter here.
May 26, 201511 yr Welcome! there are a lot of good websites for learning html & css such as w3schools and code academy. If you like books i recommend "HTML & CSS" by Jon Ducket, his book set is £20 on amazon at the moment. I have bought his book set and they are amazing, they are very easy to understand. Theres a sample chapter here. Codeacademy is a good free resource. W3Schools is not. I'd recommend you sign upto Treehouse and CodeSchool. Not free but if you put the hours in your return on investment would be astronomical. It paid off massively for me. It got me from knowing nothing to being an employed full-time developer at a startup within 8 months. Beyond that Front-end masters covers more complex topics in great detail, but that's probably something to bear in mind for the future. Edited May 26, 201511 yr by rbrtsmith
May 26, 201511 yr Author Thank you for the warm welcome. I've purchased the HTML&CSS book by Jon Duckett. I'll sign up to Codeschool when I get home from work. Thank you all
May 26, 201511 yr Yeah... I really wish people would stop recommending w3schools... We need some kind of W3Schools filter on the forum. I've heard you can have it as an extension on Chrome to omit it from search results
May 26, 201511 yr Is W3School really that bad? Yes. Here's an extract from a stack-overflow response to this very question: W3Schools is a garbage web site, designed to rank high in search engines in order to show people ads. The site demonstrates that the quality of the actual content is entirely secondary to that goal. Its PHP MySQL tutorial contains a SQL injection hole to this day, at least since 2006. It is likely responsible for many, if not most, of the tens of thousands of users who show up on Stack Overflow with vulnerable, broken code. If anything should be banned, it's links to W3Schools itself. That would eliminate the need for W3Fools links, as well. I agree a comment meme pointing to a web site is not the best way to educate users, nor the most objective. However, seeing as listing all the shortcomings of W3Schools in individual comments is not feasible, it's better than nothing. It would also probably be best for everyone if W3Schools acknowledged on its front page that it is not associated with the W3C. Edited May 26, 201511 yr by rbrtsmith
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