Best website design/coding resource or tutorials?

Xenigo123 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-24-2007, 02:40 AM

If you were a complete beginner to web design and coding, what site would you consider to be the best resource or tutorial for learning from scratch? I'm not talking about a forum or anything like that. I mean a site that has step by step tutorials for a newbie to learn. I noticed a lot of sites that charge for this but I imagine there must be a ton of free sites out there that can provide this service. It would be even more helpful if it had video tutorials.

AffiliateSeeking · #2 (**permalink**) 05-24-2007, 02:51 AM

When I first started learning all this web designing and coding stuff I first used htmlgoodies. I didn't know much about the web then, so I guess I really only used that because it came up in the search results first or near the top of the results or something. I can't even remember which search engine I was using. It may have been google or it may have been a different one as I don't think Google was quite so big then, which was about 6 - 7 years ago.

I don't know if htmlgoodies.com is the best, but it definately helped me with learning the basics for html.

I think it's best to learn and css before learning to code php, asp, etc. If you learn html and css first then php and asp may be easier to learn. Well that is how I did it anyway. I would say that I am quite fluent in html and php now and some other langauges I know quite a bit of.

I must admit that if you don't know much or any html and php and other programming languages, then it is a good idea to learn it if you want to earn your main income from websites. It is not something that is required for you to know to be successful in websites, but it is definately a great advantage to you to know it as I have found out many of times, daily.

Xenigo123 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-24-2007, 05:00 AM

I just took a look at that site and it is pretty helpful. For the most part I have relied on templates and instant site builders for most of my projects, but I would love to learn how to make my pages myself. I think my next step is to start a small project using the info on that site and seeing how it goes. Thanks for that! Does anyone know any others?

kingjacob · #4 (**permalink**) 05-24-2007, 06:05 AM

the best websites to learn the basics are W3Schools Online Web Tutorials and once youre done there and start building and needing more and more difficult and detailed coding http://alvite.de/handbook is a good source.

alpha · #5 (**permalink**) 05-24-2007, 10:09 AM

You cannot beat SMASHING MAGAZINE.

Sivart · #6 (**permalink**) 05-24-2007, 03:59 PM

I will always recommend to anyone wanting to learn PHP to sit down with Kevin Yank's book: How to Build a Database Driven Website. It starts out with a somewhat practical example. It will introduce you to MySQL so you can understand queries and then it will take you on to very small PHP scripts. The only problem I have had with the book is that the code is not very organized, sometimes going to the next line (perhaps due to width of the physical pages) for no apparent reason.

The Walsho · #7 (**permalink**) 05-25-2007, 06:24 PM

I wanted to have a good understanding of HTML when I started, even though it's not used as much as other coding these days. htmlcodetutorial.com did that for me. I'd say a trip to your library would find you a book or two on whatever you need.

Xenigo123 · #8 (**permalink**) 05-26-2007, 10:28 AM

Damn, there is some really good resources that you all have turned me on to in this thread. I really like Smashing Magazine, and the htmlcodetutorial.com site is also very helpful. It's amazing how many free resources are readily available like that. Thanks again all!

Sido_vd · #9 (**permalink**) 05-26-2007, 03:09 PM

I do not want yea junk e-mail but there was one site if I do not lie myself super-tutorials.com and a thing similar and there were very interesting things there

1mak · #10 (**permalink**) 05-28-2007, 06:24 PM

thank you for this thread, i have taken a look at the outpointed web sites and think that they are very usefull. thx!

SSJJ · #11 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 09:30 AM

I am also in favor of w3schools man...
They are rocking

joshua · #12 (**permalink**) 06-05-2007, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kingjacob

the best websites to learn the basics are W3Schools Online Web Tutorials and once youre done there and start building and needing more and more difficult and detailed coding http://alvite.de/handbook is a good source.

I totally agree with you that W3schools is the best online web tutorials.The tutorials are arranged for both beginners and experience users.
Moreover the site allows you to code online and see the results online.

beamup · #13 (**permalink**) 08-18-2007, 07:40 PM

W3schools is taking the market..... You should check it out..... its great for the beginners as well as the experts!!!!!!

robodesignsolutions · #14 (**permalink**) 05-14-2008, 03:37 AM

Hi I would recommend the book PHP in 24 hours. Try some of examples, and create your own simple projects, then go for it...

Happy Coding

Paul

MH-Dolly · #15 (**permalink**) 12-10-2008, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenigo123

If you were a complete beginner to web design and coding, what site would you consider to be the best resource or tutorial for learning from scratch? I'm not talking about a forum or anything like that. I mean a site that has step by step tutorials for a newbie to learn. I noticed a lot of sites that charge for this but I imagine there must be a ton of free sites out there that can provide this service. It would be even more helpful if it had video tutorials.

My opinion is that you should know very well html and css before you start with php! Start with w3schools for all (html,css, php)!

tanja · #16 (**permalink**) 01-15-2009, 01:51 PM

Try to find good books in internet it will be a good way to get knowledges

marylane · #17 (**permalink**) 01-25-2009, 06:12 AM

I agree, I love the Smashingmagazine. I have never seen anything like it before, so a great share
Oh yes, I use

Code:

killerphp.com

Good stuff

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenigo123

Damn, there is some really good resources that you all have turned me on to in this thread. I really like Smashing Magazine, and the htmlcodetutorial.com site is also very helpful. It's amazing how many free resources are readily available like that. Thanks again all!

studioxcess · #18 (**permalink**) 03-18-2009, 02:19 AM

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bowmanaxel · #19 (**permalink**) 12-23-2010, 05:14 AM

I fully agree that it is the best web tutorials.The W3Schools Online Lessons for both beginners and advanced users.

mwmurphy · #20 (**permalink**) 03-28-2011, 03:27 AM

I'd recommend getting books on PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS. You'll probably want to learn about Apache and Linux as well. These are only some of the technologies available - others do very similar things.

Here's a very cursory lay of the land:

HTML - tells the browser what text, links, and pictures to display
CSS - works with HTML to control the formatting of the text, links, and pictures
PHP - programming language embedded in HTML that allows your websites to be dynamic and process data
MySQL - database for storing and retrieving data (use PHP
Apache - the web server software that sends webpages to a browser
Linux - the operating system of the web - an alternative to Windows

w3schools is a good quick primer website