Leon
(Leon Mendez)
10 March 2016 09:53
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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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willwood
(William Woodgate)
10 March 2016 10:13
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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:
Learn the technical skills you need for the job you want. As leaders in online education and learning to code, we’ve taught over 45 million people using a tested curriculum and an interactive learning environment. Start with HTML, CSS, JavaScript,...
W3Schools is also a good online learning resource:
http://www.w3schools.com/
Good to see someone else wanting to experiment and learn HTML/CSS.
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zeebe
(Robert Ziebol 🖖🏼)
10 March 2016 12:08
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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:
4.7 out of 5 stars,
ISBN: 978-1118008188,
John Wiley & Sons,
November 8, 2011,
$21.44
I would suggest this to everyone who builds websites.
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kryten
(Stuart)
10 March 2016 12:49
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+1 Fantastic book.
Its big brother on Javascript and jQuery is excellent too.
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ElliotEKJ
(Elliot Jackson)
10 March 2016 13:48
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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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Elixir
(Adam Shiver)
10 March 2016 16:16
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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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Leon
(Leon Mendez)
10 March 2016 17:02
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Excellent, thanks as well to the other suggestions. All good places to start.
Looks like I have a reading list to get in order, I am looking forward to it.
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