Monday, October 20, 2008

The Secrets to Successfully Learning Basic HTML - Web-Design

The Secrets to Successfully Learning Basic HTML

If you'd like to create/maintain a website, having some HTML knowledge is
necessary in order to create a standard page on the web. Learning the HTML
basics is easy and should take less than an hour.

First you'll need some type of software/editor to create your html pages.
Here's a few to try out (or not) and see which you feel most comfortable
with.

Editors for Hand Coding:

(http://www.notepad.org) Notepad - This easy-to-use HTML editor is FREE
(for Windows version 2.0 and above). If you are interested in learning how
to code by hand then this editor is highly recommended. It is not
cluttered with tons of features and is handy for all scripting languages,
html, perl, php, etc.

Advanced Source Code Editors:

These editors are similar to Notepad by allowing you to create your
webpage via hand coding, but they help to speed up the process of coding
by hand with features such as syntax highlighting, spell checking, global
find/replace, code libraries, code snippets, file explorers, page
previews, and much more. Ideal for all scripting languages.

(http://www.alleycode.com) AlleyCode - This award winning HTML editor is
fast and comes with many great features. You can view your progress in
real time using it's Synchro View feature. Another great editor if you
want to learn to code by hand, comes with handy code snippets. Supports
all scripting languages. Alleycode is FREE!

(http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml) 1stPage - This html editor comes
packed with many features you won't even find in the high-priced editors,
and it's free. This editor is perfect for everyone, from novice to expert.
Some of it's features include, 400+ javascripts, 15 dhtml scripts, 17 perl
scripts, 6 html scripts, 2 cgi scripts.

(http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite) Macromedia HomeSite - $99
(Free 30-day trial). HomeSite provides a lean, code-only editor for web
development. Advanced coding features enable you to instantly create and
modify HTML, CFML, JSP, and XHTML tags, while enhanced productivity tools
allow you to validate, reuse, navigate, and format code more easily.

WYSIWYG: (What You See Is What You Get) I do not personally recommend
using these. Reason being that the code can be messy, unnecessary tags can
get put in, and most importantly, the code will NOT be valid. Valid code
is important for a properly functioning, SEO-friendly webpage. Once you
learn how to hand code you can use these editors to save time and just go
over the source code and clean it up to be sure it's valid.

WYSIWYG is a type of editor/software which allows the user to see the web
page as it's being created. In other words, you can drag and drop images
exactly where you want them, place text where you want it and not really
have to deal with the code side of creating a web page.

(http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver) DreamWeaver 8 - Free to
try; $399 to buy. Generally known as the best of the WYSIWYG editors.
Comes with an easy to use interface, expanded CSS support, background FTP.

(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010858021033.aspx) FrontPage 2003 -
30 Day Free Trial, $199 to buy. While being a popular choice and commonly
used, FrontPage is also known to produce bloated, messy, invalid code,
you're best not to use this program. Features include the ability to
upload your web site without requiring an FTP program, hit counters,
feedback forms, and more.

(http://www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html) GoLive - $399. Adobe®
GoLive® CS2 software lets you unlock the power of CSS with intuitive
visual tools such as prebuilt CSS objects that you can drag and drop to
build sophisticated sites. Jump-start your designs by easily converting
Adobe InDesign® layouts into Web pages. Or, design Web and mobile content
in an advanced, standards-based coding environment.

To learn HTML it's best to make use of the tutorials offered at such sites
as (http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp) W3Schools and
(http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics) WebMonkey.
That's how I learned. Also be sure to check out these excellent HTML
resources, (http://www.websitetips.com/html) Website Tips and
(http://www.htmlgoodies.com) HTML Goodies. To do the HTML tutorials I
would advise using Notepad or one of the advanced source code editors
listed above.

Colleen Chard is a professional web designer based in the greater Toronto,
Ontario Canada area. She has been designing websites since 2001 and runs
her own online business Kalina Web Designs,
http://www.kalinawebdesigns.com. Colleen is also the webmaster of many
other web sites including Directory Source,
http://www.directorysource.info, and Apex Templates,
http://www.apextemplates.com.

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