Arceye

Got it!! Practice is the word I must have missed .Thx for the help I guess I can relax a little and admit to using dreamweaver without the worry of being belittled for it

I do in fact use frontpage, dreamweaver and namo web editor to great success but I never mentioned that because I had a feeling I would need to go buy a flame suit to protect me from the flames of admitting to being relyent on such programs.I tend to use them to make a site look the way I want then edit the html to remove the unneeded stuff this is how I learned to understand what each part of the code is doing.I just thought I should really learn how to write it from scratch using only a text editor but remembering all the tags just blows my head away.

Hi, I am having trouble with a mental block when trying to write html. I look at the source almost every site I look at and I can read and understand very clearly what each part of the html code is doing. I have taken a few free online basic tests where html code is shown and the answer to what it is doing must be given, all of these tests have given me good results (above 80%).My problem is if someone were to ask me to write the code for a site my mind goes numb and I would struggle even to write the very basic first lesson "hello world" kind of web page.This is not an isolated problem with only html I have exactly the same problem with any kind of script such as VB, Java, PHP, ASP and just about every other kind of script or programing language I have tried to learn. All of them give me the same result I can read them, dissect them, understand what each bit is doing but I cannot write even the most basic things from scratch.Basically what happens is my brains tells me I can't do this before I even start so how do I get over this problem ?