Starting out in CSS

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Hey Community

So, I am a designer, through and through. Imagery and shaping, concepts and art.
As I experiment more and more with RW, I find myself wanting to take more control behind the scenes.

Here’s my question, where and what is the best online course/guided source for starting out with HTML/CSS coding? I have had such excellent help here on these forums with people able to reel off segments of code to fix issues, and this really is something I would love to learn to do for myself/help others with.

For any of your thoughts and ideas, thanks in advance.

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CodeAcademy have an excellent free course on HTML and CSS which is fun and easy to follow, and some more general courses on creating websites:

W3Schools is also a good online learning resource:
http://www.w3schools.com/

Good to see someone else wanting to experiment and learn HTML/CSS. :clap:

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I know this is not an online source, but it is still a good resource to have. It is a great book:

I would suggest this to everyone who builds websites.

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+1 Fantastic book.
Its big brother on Javascript and jQuery is excellent too.

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Hey @Leon,

Both of the suggestions you’ve had so far are great. If you decide Code Academy isn’t for you, good alternatives include Code School and Khan Academy.

My hands-down favourite teacher of web-stuff is Jeffrey Way. His course on tuts+ is old now but a lot of the info will still be very relevant. I believe it’s free if you create an account on the network too: http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-html-css. From there you could check out his similarly structured Javascript course: http://code.tutsplus.com/courses/30-days-to-learn-jquery.

If you want to go more in depth, the ABA books are great too. I’d suggest checking out
HTML5 for web designers, CSS3 for web designers, Responsive Web Design and SASS for web designers in that order.

Hopefully that isn’t over-facing. Once you get stuck in this stuff is a lot of fun.

Good luck,
—E

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Here’s a fun, free, quick course for getting started: https://codyhouse.co/free-course/learn-html-and-css/

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Excellent, thanks as well to the other suggestions. All good places to start. :slight_smile:

Looks like I have a reading list to get in order, I am looking forward to it.