I need to learn web design Options

[rickysaurus]

I know next to nothing about wed design and coding, and it's high time I start because nowadays you can't get anywhere without being able to do web design. I followed a tutorial to make the website on photoshop which was all fine and dandy but when it came to coding it was a complete fail.

So that being said, I just wanted to know how you guys got started in learning how to code and such because I know there are a lot of coders out there on this forum, hopefully I can gain a few good insights from your stories, and maybe a few absolute beginner links would be helpful too. Thanks.

[PaigeTurner]

What is this, you can't get anywhere without knowing HTML attitude? That's simply untrue!

Granted, in the late 1990's, viewing the source of a person's website was a lot easier, because everything was written from scratch. Hardly anyone used a program to write their source. And, you didn't have websites like MySpace filling the source with all their junk. Back then, Notebook was your friend. We cared about how our source looked. And, that's how we learned.

Viewing the source of a website is still an excellent tool to learn the basics of web building, especially now, CSS. Seeing all the little trs and tds in action really helps bring on that moment of "AH HAH!" when wanting to know how tables are made. Image maps, iFrames, even that code that makes your curser look like an alien, can be learned through viewing someone elses' source.

But, in today's world, the source might seem like a big bowl of spaghetti. In this case, I recommend takin' a peek at w3schools.com - an excellent webguide for, well, most everything you need to know! From HTML tutorials to server scripting, this has been, for nearly fifteen years, the one website to which I've turned. It's simple, and mantains the Notebook principle. It's the source site of today.