I have just started my web design degree at college and I was wondering what the best way to learn html is?
Practice is always king.
HTML is _NOT_ complicated, really. It's just a way to mark up your content and as such should be natural to use.
I can suggest that you download emmet for your favourite code editor or if you aren't using a code editor yet - i can suggest Sublime Text, I've found it really comfortable for front-end development *Although this is a very personal thing*, even over options like WebStorm.
If you want to learn the tags themselves - like i mentioned - practice is king, try to replicate a site's content, look at the source - whatever you don't know - it's available at W3Schools.
I agree Emmet is the way to go. I use Aptana for my editor though.
Here's a quick tutorial on Emmet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWgY9eiO4ns
thanks a lot, i have got notepad++ atm but may try those.
thanks!
I learned html/css by just downloading templates and editing them, trying "what this/that does"... and some tutorials, but really best way is just to try everything and see. I work as front-end web dev now and when i code some website i can imagine how it will look like in browser. Another chapter is CSS3 and CSS animations, but you dont need to care about these to make nice clean website :)