What book do you recommend to learn html or dreamweaver?
May.17, 2008 in
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shawneeee77 asked:
My college course for html coding and css was cancelled because of lack of enrollment. I want to get into web design but I don’t know where to begin. I want to do it sucessfully. So looking for honest and serious advice. What do you all suggest?
WHAT HTML BOOK DO YOU SUGGEST. I DON’T KNOW HTML CODING AT ALL, BUT I WANT TO LEARN. HTML FOR DUMMIES YOU THINK?
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May 18th, 2008 at 2:38 am
I’d start at
I’ve yet to come across a book I consider good, and W3Schools, despite being popular, is packed with errors and in those instances when it isn’t wrong, it is usually far from best practise.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Learn both, if you know HTML you can do a lot more with dreamweaver.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I always liked html because it shows more fundemental prospective of not merely web design, but the computer itself. But I heard dreamweaver is easier to handle… so it depends how hardcore you are into computers… I guess.
Oh, and html offers more option in web designing.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:05 am
visit Lynda.com and you can good stuff from there.
for HTML you visit below site
May 25th, 2008 at 1:19 am
dreamweaver is an html editor………..how about Dreamweaver Unleashed.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I suggest no books as they date as soon as the ink is dry.
Go for a CD or DVD based solution.
If you really want a book try Dreamweaver for Dummies.
I would suggest the VTC training CDs or online tutorials.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Get a copy of Macromedia Homesite or CuteHTML. They are HTML editors and help you write and understand the code. Homesite has excellent on-line Help.
The books I have are really old, and probably out of date so I don’t know of any titles. Any book by O’Reilly publishers is generally good.
You might check your local Craigslist for possible classes.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
HTML is a method of specifying content on a web page. Do you want to learn that (just what the page looks like) or do you want to learn web development (writing web pages)?
Web design is a fine arts course, web development is a science course. If you want to learn web development, first learn computer programming. (HTML is not a programming language – it’s a method of specifying content.)
Any good programmer, with a little artistic sense, can create pretty, and useful, web pages. An artist can produce beautiful, but not very useful, web pages.
(Dreamweaver is just a tool – you can’t do anything in dreamweaver that you can’t do with a combination of Notepad and ftp [a command line command in Windows]. You can just do it faster and easier in Dreamweaver.)
If you want to learn programming, take an Introduction to Computer Programming kind of course, or get a copy of Wirth’s “Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs”. (Amazon usually has a few used copies for under $5.) It won’t teach you any computer language, but it will teach you how to apply ANY computer language (and make learning them a WHOLE heap easier). What it teaches is programming (learning a language is not learning programming, any more than learning French is learning French biochemistry).
May 31st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
the way i learnt html and css was by learning through video tutorials posted on site such as tutorialized.com
other good resources are w3c aswell which is really helpful in explaining html and css.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 am
Sometimes books are just nicer than online learning, right? No substitute for getting comfy on the couch, or in the park, with a nice cup of coffee and a book.
For ANY technical topic from design to programming, I highly recommend checking out books by O’Reilly. Surf for them on Amazon. Here’s a link to one of their more recent HTML books…
A good place to start reading about HTML and design online…
I’m also putting together a beginning HTML course myself right now. It will be free, and it will be INTERACTIVE. So you’ll be building a website as you go, and getting feedback and graded on your work not only by your instructor but by your fellow students, and you’ll earn to work on projects as a team.
Though I do use Dreamweaver on occasion, I’ll only be using FREE and easily available software for the course, which I’ve listed here…
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
I haven’t been too impressed with any of the “for dummies” books. If you really want to learn about HTML and CSS the right way, I recommend learning from the free resources that are available online. Books on anything having to do with the Internet become outdated so quickly that, in my opinion, they are a useless waste of money. A good online resource will always be up to date.
You should start by learning the basics of HTML. As soon as you know how to set up a basic webpage, jump right in to CSS and learn it right along with the HTML because the two really work hand in hand. You can’t be a good webmaster unless you are using CSS.
My top recommendation for you is.
Happy coding!