html help

[Guest jumico]

I've learned html and read the sites tuturial but I dont think ill be able to produce a very good webpage. I know how to make one, write paragraphs put on pictures and links but I want to know how to make one that looks more organized. To me all html is is tags and you have to know when to use them. Do I have to learn more tags or css or what? Thanks for any help.

[Jonas]

CSS is always useful to learn if you want to make nice pages, as it's a much more powerful language for styling than html attributes. However, to make a site look nice, start out with a sheet of paper, and draw how you would like your site to look. This helps you get ideas, instead of coding on the fly and making something. Try to do what I said, draw, and then code from there. If you want to take it further, you could take a course in graphic design or something.

[Skemcin]

Jonas makes excellent points. I've always told students I've taught that (Even though this sounds corny) coding a web page (using HTML, CSS, cold fusion, asp, php) is somewhat of an art. So don't expect to be a Picasso on your first attempt. If you feel comfortable with the tutorials, then you can only get better with practice.I'd start with what Jonas suggested. Then I would find a few very simply, but clean websites:http://www.deepcreekinns.com/http://www.deepcreeklakebreezmotel.com/http://www.deepcreeklakeside.com/These are sites I coded yeeeaaaars ago - some of my first. Study the code and try to understand what you see.Then take your drawings (per Jonas suggestion) and code your site.Let us know how it goes.P.S. If you're not much of a graphic designer, consider finding a free web template online and then work with the code rather than coming up with a design all yourself.

[Guest FirefoxRocks]

Well it is essential CSS if you want to create nice looking pages. Also, to position and organize your page, you must know CSS in order to do it efficiently.I mean you can have nice clean <div> in your HTML codes or you can have 9 nested tables just to squeeze a paragraph somewhere. Your choice.