Re: Recommendations = Resources

When I first started learning HTML, I went on the web and downloaded
everything I could find regarding HTML. I went to Netscape, W3, HTML
Goodies, and various other pages that are no longer around. I think one of
the best pages out there (besides the HWG and W3) is W3 Schools
(http://www.w3schools.com/). They offer tutorials on almost everything out
there, from HTML, to CSS, to XML, to MySQL. I will have to check my
favorites to see what other links I have, as I try to keep a lot of them
around. Oh, and the best book that I have found is Laura Lemays Teach
Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 hours. Great book, I'm using it for a class
that I am taking. Hope this helps!

Jami
http://www.jamisniche.com/

P.S.,
can those who have HTML/CSS/XHTML/etc. tutorial pages give a shout? I would
love to do a compilation of links for my website. Thanks.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert" <bert(at)betterwebdesign.com.au>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Recommendations = Resources


> OK, I'll bite.  Here's my 2 cents worth.
>
> While not purely a hand-coder (sorry Fuzz), I would not consider myself a
> web designer if I had not learnt (X)HTML and CSS.  At best, I'd be able to
> call myself a pretend graphics artist if that were the case.  Generally
> speaking, I design the initial site template in a WYSIWY-HT-G (... Hope To
> ...), then clean the code up and use this clean template as a basis for
> further pages.  Yes, those pages are usually hand-coded - it's not that
hard
> to add Paragraph and Heading tags around text.
>
> Way back in 19??, I started off with Netscape Composer 2.  Looked great to
> me, on my screen, at my resolution and color depth in my browser.  (I
think
> it was 800x600 on a 14 inch VGA screen at 256 colors)  Looked like #$%^ in
> other configurations - 640x480 was still the most common in those days and
> 16 colors was not unusual.  So I learnt to hand-code.
>
> Some of the sites I have used for reference:
> * http://werbach.com/barebones/barebone.html
> * http://www.blooberry.com/
> * http://www.w3.org
>
> I'm sure there were others, but I learnt even more from reading a book
about
> HTML, from the Sams Teach Yourself series.  And from validating code.  Oh
> the joy when I got my first page to validate in HTML 3.2!   And then in
> HTML4 Transitional.  I got a kick out of validating a complete site (ok,
all
> except one page) to XHTML 1.0 Strict.
>
> FP and Dreamweaver are not bad programs, but they suffer when
inexperienced
> people use it.  One thing I keep coming across is sites that have tables
> with fixed widths and heights - done automatically because the "designer"
> resized one of the table cells, intentionally or unintentionally.
Probably
> looked great on the computer it was composed on.  Change the font size and
> screen resolution, look at it in a different browser and hope for the
best.
>
> Oh, regarding using the "Save As HTML" feature in Word....  I would not
> recommend it for anything but a purely text based site that will only be
> viewed in Internet Explorer.  I shudder to think what a mess this would
> generate.  I have seen my fair share of those, with huge files for a tiny
> bit of text.  Another favorite of mine? MS Publisher.  I've re-designed
> plenty of those because they did not deliver what the owner expected!
>
> Regards
> --
> Bert Doorn, Web Developer
> CIW Associate, IWA Member
> www.bwdzine.com/bwdt/
> Beginners Web Design Tutorial
>
>
>

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