Havok644
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No sir, I don't like it
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Post by Havok644 on May 3, 2009 8:30:07 GMT -5
Hi, I'm toying with the idea of making my own website w/ some friends, but my HTML skills fail, can anyone help me? All I know is this: <HTML> Starts HTML <p1> Text goes here </p1> End Text paragraph one </HTML> End HTML Please help me!  |
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Post by Pitch on May 3, 2009 8:57:42 GMT -5
To the best of my knowledge <p1>…</p1> is not a tag. < h1>…</ h1> is, though. It will take some time to learn HTML¹; and if you're going to go about making websites, you really can't get away with not knowing CSS² any more either. W3Schools has some nice tutorials( ¹, ²), but personally I learned all I know from yourhtmlsource.com, so I'd recommend trying there. |
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Post by blayze16 on May 3, 2009 21:14:33 GMT -5
Haven't you learned it in school (no offense)? I did, and then some like CSS. Like what Green said, those websites help.
And if you don't know the basic structure:
<html>
<head> <title> This appears in the title bar. </title>
CSS and javascript goes here, otherwise is blank.
</head>
<body>
Main site content
</body> </html>
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Post by Chiz on May 3, 2009 21:42:56 GMT -5
And if you don't know the basic structure: <html> <head> <title> This appears in the title bar. </title> CSS and javascript goes here, otherwise is blank. </head> <body> Main site content </body> </html> No. Close, but not perfect. <!DOCTYPE [[doctype info here]]>
<html>
<head>
<title>[[title here]]</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="[[content-type and charset info here]]">
<link href="[[css file]]" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="[[javascript file]]"></script>
<!-- repeat css and js linking as needed -->
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="[[javascript file]]"></script>
<!-- more scripts, if you need them -->
[[main content here]]
<!-- Note: if you use XHTML, it will require adjustments to above -->
</body>
</html>Please, make sure your websites validate with the appropriate W3 standards, and don't write your page with MSIE in mind because then it'll look ugly for everyone. Test your website with a browser from at least 2 of the following bullets: - Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey, Iceweasel, other Gecko-powered browsers;
- Opera (this includes the Wii version)
- Safari, Chrome, other WebKit-powered browsers.
And for bonus points, make sure it's able to be navigated reasonably well with a text-only browser, like Lynx, as well as a cell-phone/mobile browser. |
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Post by blayze16 on May 3, 2009 22:23:44 GMT -5
Thanks for the clarification, EC!
Of all the times I've done HTML, we (or the instructor chose not to) have yet to use the <DOCTYPE!> tag. And I should brush up on my Javascript and CSS.
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Post by Chiz on May 4, 2009 0:40:41 GMT -5
Every last HTML thing you do should have a DOCTYPE. It's just that important. It's the difference between quirks mode (bad, sometimes unpredicable) and things actually working (good, ideal).
I've personally never taken an HTML/JS/CSS course *ever*. How I learned was reading script and documentation sites, reverse-engineering sites that had effects I liked, and then validating over and over until I both had a website I liked and wanted, and gave me no errors.
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Post by blayze16 on May 4, 2009 1:27:41 GMT -5
Then I guess you're better than me. It makes me wanna take back the first sentence of my first reply in this thread.
I also have stumbled upon sites that have some effects I liked. I sometimes use them as inspirations in my laboratory activities at school. I really am forgetting what I've just learned in my CSS/JS class.
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Post by bdk336 on May 6, 2009 12:24:43 GMT -5
I'm learning CSS and html but in the mean time I've been using webs.com to host my website and for something that doesn't absolutely require you to use code it is pretty useful.
Also I've been to three schools, two of them private, and not a single one had any classes to do with any sort of computer code/langauge. And to the best of my knowledge there are hardly any schools here in New Jersey that do have those classes.
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