In need of assistance

[cwpri]

Ok, I already feel stupid for posting this, however, I am html stupid. I have no clue where to start or what to do. I know a few things like images (i.e. [img] format, [b] format, [u] format [i] format.) but thats about it.

I'm trying to put together a website and I'm having a heck of a time doing so. Its a free site from tripod, I would like to have it look professionally done.

there are so many things I would like to put on there but I want to take it one step at a time this way I don't get confused.


Would someone be willing to teach me how to do this?

[ChiefNX]

Sure, anyone here (including me) can help out with specific questions.

If you're learning HTML from scratch then the best places to go are:

http://www.w3schools.com/

and

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

You'll find lots of tutorials there.

Apart from that, the first thing you need to know is that html tags use triangular brackets (<>) not square ([]). :p

[cwpri]

:) Thank you. Did I mention I was html stupid lol

[the tree]

Honestly, Tripod throws a lot of crap into your code. As far as free hosts go (presuming you don't want to use server-side scripting) freewebs is pretty cool.

Be wary of w3schools, a lot of it's content is outdated and over simplified. Avoid HTML-Goodies at all costs.

HTML Help (http://htmlhelp.com) has quite a bit of advice and of course, you can always ask specific questions here.

[Charles]

w3schools isn't so bad. It does have the occasional error and it is way too much in love with XHTML, but there's nothing there that can't be corrected by reading through the 4.01 spec.

HTML Goodies is another story. One look and you have to be de-programmed.

[the tree]

w3schools isn't so bad. It does have the occasional error...Like I said, be wary of it. Don't avoid using it all together as it is a good tool for reference but don't by any means rely on it and be willing to accept that what it tells you may be wrong.

Assume that what HTMLGoodies tells you is wrong.

[cwpri]

Well, I'm half stupid now.. I was playing around on w3schools and it taught me a little more than what I did know. But I'll keep in mind about out-of-date. Thanks.. if you have anymore ideas that may help me..By all means let me know.

[kiwibrit]

Honestly, Tripod throws a lot of crap into your code. As far as free hosts go (presuming you don't want to use server-side scripting) freewebs is pretty cool.

Be wary of w3schools, a lot of it's content is outdated and over simplified. Avoid HTML-Goodies at all costs.

HTML Help (http://htmlhelp.com) has quite a bit of advice and of course, you can always ask specific questions here.

WDG have an excellent site-wide validator (http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/). I guess almost everybody in the world bar me was aware of it - but I wasn't until I came upon it through your link. Thanks very much. I had just switched all the transitional code pages in the company site over to strict - and it was hugely useful in tracking down coding changes I'd missed.