Website Building Help

Hi everyone,

Hi Sam,

You should definitely aim to familiarize yourself with HTML before getting into CSS.  The reason is because CSS is really a way to style your HTML code by controlling how the elements of the HTML look on a Web page.  Neither language is harder than the either to learn, but starting with HTML makes sense.

HTML is pretty straightforward, so is CSS.  I'd recommend you check out W3Schools and go through the HTML tutorials there.  Once you feel you know some of the basics, by all means go ahead and jump into CSS (that same site has good CSS tutorials).  W3Schools gives you lots of do-it-yourself examples that you should use as practice.

If you feel you could learn more effectively with something like a book, then check out Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML by Freeman.

Hope this helps!

Yann

I was going to recommend W3Schools, too... Yann beat me to it. It's a great reference, and I used to use it all the time.

You should spend a weekend with HTML. Pay attention to structural tags (body, div, span, p), since those are the ones you'll be using the most.

Once you have the basics, you can move right into CSS. That's where most of your focus should be.

Agreed. Once you've got the basics of HTML down, here's the CSS tutorial link. It may not be harder but I'd guess that you'll be studying the CSS for a lot longer than the HTML. :)

Good luck!

This is great advice! Thanks for all of your suggestions everyone. Once I have my site all styled up and running I might share the link with you guys to show off my work.

Thanks again,

Sam

I'd agree with everyone's advice so far. One book that I love and is very easy to read (even without a computer near by) is: Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide. Great, understandable book about CSS.  Small and easily digestible.