Where to start with website coding

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Hey there.

I love to design websites on Photoshop and stuff but my rainbow ends when it hits coding the html and stuff. I would love to learn and I have the time, but where do I start? What resources can you give me and any tips?

I do have experience working with code, sure, I can edit pre-coded scripts but I just crumble when coding from scratch.

I would like to learn

  • HTML
  • PHP
  • Javascript

Help a brother out,

Cheers.

 

 

 

Heres a potato.

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I really wish you hadn't included the potato. *shudders*

Wendell sent this link to me yesterday, seems like a pretty decent way to jump into html.  It really starts with the assumption you know nothing, which is nice for those who've never programmed before.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

They have multiple language courses--javascript, xml, css,php...etc.

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Thank you :) I'll check it out.

 

To your annoyance, here is a family of potatoes.

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I've used w3schools before, It's a great site.

When it comes to HTML, the basics can be learnt in a week, it can be mastered in a few months. Really quite easy!

If you get stuck with HTML coding, you could always get Dreamweaver and do some stuff in design mode.

Are you new here, xpression? Welcome :) Looks like you're another young member, too. (On your profile :P)

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well I'm no master or anything so you may find Vykings advice more useful, but most code I know I learned at

http://thenewboston.org/

 

btw BBcode no longer work on this site? hyperlinking not working?

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thanks for all you help guys, much appreciated.

Yeah, I am new :) I was watching tiger direct a while back when Logan was on it, and found out about rtw when he left, but have never really been active since.

(when is the new mobile site coming? I had to download Firefox on my android phone because the default browser wouldn't let me comment haha.)

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Well... PHP is insanely important but you want to start with the basics. So, first: 

  • HTML and CSS - Learn to write this... Don't use dreamweaver or some gui. Do it by hand in notepad++.
  • PHP is really the most important lanuage on the web these days. It's not as clean or as fast as python... but it is used everywhere (including this site). 
  • JS is not my field...

If you learn by reading... check out the O'Reilly books. They are usually very well done. There are some videos online too that are really awesome... let me look for them...

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The O'Reilly books are good, but they can be prohibitively expensive.  Especially in the era of "free" information online.

Videos are a great way to learn, they can sometimes be easier to follow along with than, say, a pdf textbook. Also I definitely agree with the "no Dreamweaver" sentiment, notepad++ is your friend.

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I actually learned most of my HTML and Javascript in my High School Computer Science class. My teacher made it super easy, but the way she taught it was a little repetitive. My advice is to check out this channel on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston. He's got everything from CSS to PHP, Java, C++ and even Physics. I've learned alot from him.