shadowayex Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Hey thanks for your input seems you are right people here seem friendly enough to help so thats great and so far all the info i have been given by people like yourself has been very usefull.have been doing as you sugested focusing on html & cssThat's good. I hope to see some of your work soon . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beg Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 hhhmm ok well dont expect to much still just trying stuff out in the tutorials and looking at websites to try copying could do with a decent site to go to to get free banners,graphics etc to use in the build process of a trial site for self teaching That's good. I hope to see some of your work soon . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowayex Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 The way I learned is I found a topic I decided I wanted to "make a website" on. At the time I never thought about actually putting it online or anything. But having a topic for a website and having it be something you really like helps give plenty of ideas for what it should look like. Then from there you can try to get things to look like your visions, mainly be trial and error, if you're anything like me . My experience usually led to more error than not lol. But that's how I learned. Also, whenever I saw something cool on a site, I would try to mimic it, as long as I could tell it was completely HTML and CSS. For example, using hovers and whatnot, I built a navigation menu that had submenus on hover and sometimes even submenus for the submenus. It was very tricky but it also alllowed me to experiment with classes and style each menu and sbumenu differently, as well and use extra hover classes for highlighting selected links and whatnot. It was a great learning experience and I learned not only how to use different HTML and CSS things efficiently, it also taught me what takes precedence over other things in CSS and how to manage so many different elements. It was quite fun. Projects like that are what can help you learn the most. Keep in mind, though, start small. I started off by making the hover change the background color, then the text color. From there, then I actually started messing with the main components. It's always better to try everything you know you'll need to use on a project separately if you're unsure exactly how things work, that way, you know what to expect when you put it into action and it will help you debug more effectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beg Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 well Im just starting to learn html and as you will see i posted another topic cant seem to get a image to show in my trial programing have a folder with the html coding that i have done and then copy and pasted a image file from my documents to the folder containing the html. The image is a jpg. Im using notepadthis is what i have got so far<html> <head><img src="images/newbie banner.jpg" /><title>This is My first site.</title> </head> <body style="background-color:#F5DEB3"> <p> this is my first website build so may have all sorts of stuff in it.<p>like Ivy is looking at dining tables and chairs on trademe<br/><p>At the momentwhich happens to be a Auction site very similar to ebay<p> which is a Auction site also<em><strong>both are online auction sites.these are the links</strong></em><br/> </body> </html>all i get is a small square with a red x in it it almost seems like i need to make a link to it What Have i done Wrong???perhaps you would help on a regular basis? The way I learned is I found a topic I decided I wanted to "make a website" on. At the time I never thought about actually putting it online or anything. But having a topic for a website and having it be something you really like helps give plenty of ideas for what it should look like. Then from there you can try to get things to look like your visions, mainly be trial and error, if you're anything like me . My experience usually led to more error than not lol. But that's how I learned. Also, whenever I saw something cool on a site, I would try to mimic it, as long as I could tell it was completely HTML and CSS. For example, using hovers and whatnot, I built a navigation menu that had submenus on hover and sometimes even submenus for the submenus. It was very tricky but it also alllowed me to experiment with classes and style each menu and sbumenu differently, as well and use extra hover classes for highlighting selected links and whatnot. It was a great learning experience and I learned not only how to use different HTML and CSS things efficiently, it also taught me what takes precedence over other things in CSS and how to manage so many different elements. It was quite fun. Projects like that are what can help you learn the most. Keep in mind, though, start small. I started off by making the hover change the background color, then the text color. From there, then I actually started messing with the main components. It's always better to try everything you know you'll need to use on a project separately if you're unsure exactly how things work, that way, you know what to expect when you put it into action and it will help you debug more effectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhaslip Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Images should not be placed in the <head> section.Try moving the image into the <body></body> section <html><head><title>This is My first site.</title></head><body style="background-color:#F5DEB3"><img src="images/newbie banner.jpg" /><p> this is my first website build so may have all sorts of stuff in it.<p>like Ivy is looking at dining tables and chairs on trademe<br/><p>At the momentwhich happens to be a Auction site very similar to ebay<p> which is a Auction site also<em><strong>both are online auction sites.these are the links</strong></em><br/></body></html> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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