HTML, CSS, what? And The Coding Confusion Calamity!
Confused About Website Coding/Markup?
Bad option ---->>> Mmm, take a ticket and join the queue!
Good choice ---->>> Do something about it...
Fun over, back to being serious...
If you are interested in learning more about the coding that makes your website function, then there are sites that you can use to learn more about all this coding "stuff", and actually practice what you learn.
HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and so on are all on this site -
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
Here's another one, I haven't had a thorough search of this site, but it may be easier for some of you to follow. It has membership to it, if you want to access all the training - Lifetime for $24.95, but there is some really good free info on it, too -
http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html
And, of course, our very own Magistudios created this in the Live Video Classes training section -
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/css-primer-the-basics-of-styling-your-site
No doubt there will be plenty of training on YouTube as well.
I realize this is not for everyone, but knowing a little can help you adjust some items on your website with how you want them to look, e.g. set theme font colours.
For those of you that are interested in this, may I suggest opening up a dummy siterubix site to practice anything at all that you are not familiar with, ie creating gallery images, coding HTML and so on.
That way you never have to worry about "messing" up your site. This is what many of the video training members here at WA do.
Annie
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Hi AnnieB, although we don't really need to know this, I also think its helpful to know the basics, so when you want to change something on yours site, you can ;-) the basics are great to have ! I love to learn and am always searching for more info.I had bought a HTML For DUMMIES, GOODIES HTML, and a few others, what seems like a hundred years ago now lol, alot has changed since then but I have been trying to refresh my brain. Thanks for all the information. If I may add:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/the-basics-of-html-coding-part-1
Thanks for adding this, Digger. I've made a note in my notebook to go to Annie's blog if I need this sort of training.
Thanks for the link you mention Kerri. The W3 website I've mentioned above is great for practicing on a blank "page" whomever we learn from. I'll have to take a look at Guys training when I can.
Thanks Annie. Yes, w3schools is a great place. Have made a note of the others. And I have looked at Apinapress.com and that has useful topics too as well as a free ebook for HTML and CSS which I may get eventually.
I'm sure there are several good sites out there, Isabella. I think we've got some good one's mentioned here. Maybe some other members will add more.
Hi internetgranny, haven't seen you in awhile, hope all is well with you, thanks for the addition :-) take care
w3 is cool- Apina of Apinapress.com is a member here, and did s series of bite sized chunks that I found useful...the point is that it is accessible, and although a different language, 5 words a day turns into a vocabulary in a couple of months and we already learned one language right? This can SO be done- thanks for posting, Andy
Thanks for the additional info, re Apina, Andy. A little here and there, with a bit of practice, sure adds up to a lot of knowledge.
Hi Janine, I'm going to do a little bit more training in this area myself. Nothing fancy, I just want to learn a wee bit more about changing the look of my website if possible, e.g. change the width of my website header. Don't know if I can though, yet!
Hi Annie, great info here, & as you say it isn't everybody's most fun topic. Though it certainly can give you an advantage as you point out, to improve the look & feel of your site.
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Just to be a little pedantic here mate (I can hear the programers aka code cutters urging me forward with this - sorry). Although, Javascript & PHP are considered coding (programing), HTML & CSS are in a different class of languages called 'markup'.
Loosely speaking markup languages will help change presentation etc, while programing languages are used to alter programs.
It pains me to seem this particular, though if a member went off to learn PHP, and were not programming inclined, they would probably get such a fright that they may never look to learn markup (HTML & CSS).
Markup is not considered (especially by programers) to be programing, but 'marking up', it is far easier to learn & far more intuitive than cutting code (programing).
...& you thought you were confused before :\ sorry...
And you thought you didn't learn anything in that 600 page Ben Hur novel you told me about earlier?
Thanks for pointing out the differences Damien, I'll add the word "and" to the title. I just (wrongly!) call it all coding - makes my life easier!
Genius Annie ;)
And, I actually worked in IT for over a decade, I'm not much of an IT guy, but I did pick up a little terminology & a few tricks in that gig...
It takes a bit of getting used to, but I actually managed to figure out some coding I placed in one of my sidebar images. Rather surprised I was that I fixed my "problem" up.
There's hope for us all Bill!
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Thanks for those links, Annie, and to the others who have added links here as well.
WA member Giludi recenlty published HTML training. I like that he relates it to how we use it within WordPress. I think he plans on doing one for CSS as well.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/the-basics-of-html-coding-part-1/html-in-wordpress
~Jude
good shout- my oversight in not referencing Guy (giludi)....Andy
Hi Jude and thanks for adding this link as well with Guys training.