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[Ho-oh'sRealm]

andreip, on Sep 3 2009, 11:30 PM, said:

Well the first time I got into HTML was 3-4 years ago in middle school. The computer science class was trying to learn us the basics of HTML. Than I didn't cared about that but as soon as I grew up the web fascinated me. I wanted to create "web" too. I desperately searched for sources and got linked to W3 Schools which I think almost everyone stated in this thread. It was quite complex for me. I tried and tried. Mainly I learned the basics and more of from experiencing. But I can tell you is pretty bad to do it so. If you really want to learn HTML, better, XHTML and CSS you need to do it seriously and you can do that from one of the many ebooks around on the internet. I personally chose Learning HTML and CSS a book form O'Reily. It was the greatest book. I tell you I read all of it in a few days and tried some of the practises. It's important to learn the correct way of HTML to create accesible websites for people.

About the text editing software I can link you some.


Notepad++

This is probably the best free text editor for Windows out there; with support for simple things—like syntax highlighting and folding—all the way up to FTP, Notepad++ should tick most of the boxes. I've used the editor as my main editor quite a bit, and one of my favourite features is File Status Auto-detection: when NP++ is made the active program, it will check all currently open files for changes and let you know if any file has been updated / deleted. Notepad++ is based on the Scintilla editing component.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net Free


JEdit

Jedit is rather ugly in my opinion, but it has a decent feature set; as a Java program, it's actually multi-platform. It offers syntax highlighting for over 130 languages. The website says it supports folding, but I couldn't get that to work (although it does highlight the opposite bracket). Jedit has a plugin repository, which may give the editor a bit more functionality.

http://jedit.org Free


Notepad2

Notepad2 is also based on the Scintilla editing engine, but it's much simpler than Notepad++. It bills itself as being fast, light-weight, and Notepad-like, and offers syntax highlighting for a variety of languages. There's no installation for this editor: just unzip and run. There are a few modified versions (with more features / languages) available.

http://www.flos-free...h/notepad2.html Free


Programmer's Notepad

Programmer's Notepad has a similar interface to that of Notepad2, although it does support having multiple files open at once. It supports bookmarking, folding, and highlighting, but other than that, there isn't too much to mention.

http://pnotepad.org Free


Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor offers macro support and the ability to execute external programs. It has the ability to edit remote files, using a built-in FTP client; there's also a spell checker and a neat 'column select' mode.

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Free


ConTEXT

ConTEXT supports many languages, both programming and human; it also gives you the ability to define your own custom languages. It does file comparing and exporting to HTML, and includes some interesting behaviour for projects. Another neat thing: ConTEXT remembers where your cursor is when you close a file, and puts it back there when you re-open the file.

http://www.contexteditor.org/ Free


Bespin

I know Bespin isn't really a Windows text editor, and it hardly has the feature set that other editors do, but I thought I'd throw it into the mix just because I really like the concept of an online text editor and because it has one big (obvious) feature that the rest don't: cloud access to your code. It also offers syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

http://bespin.mozilla.com Free


Textpad

TextPad is a rather simplistic editor: it boasts column select, drag-and-drop text between files, and hyperlink support. It also supports large files (based on the size of your virtual memory). That's it? Well, the feature list also mentions a right-click menu.

http://www.textpad.c...tpad/index.html $24.70


E-Text Editor (My favourite besides Dreamweaver)

Resembles a lot with TextMate

http://www.e-texteditor.com/ $34.96


EditPlus

EditPlus doesn't have anything unique, but there are some niceties: it highlights URLs and email addresses, activating them when you 'crtl + double-click'. It also has a built in browser for previewing HTML, and FTP and SFTP support. Macros and RegEx find and replace are good to have as well.

http://www.editplus.com/ $35.00


Sublime Text

Sublime Text is probably one of the most fun editors that I looked at, mainly because of its super-cool 'zoomed out' view of the file that you can pan around on. One drawback is that the preferences dialog is really just a bunch of text files; this can make it a bit difficult to tweak settings if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. I like the option to open a local file when you right-click on its link, and there are a few automation features, so this would make a solid choice of a text editor.

http://www.sublimetext.com $59.00


And my favorite thus far :

Adobe Dreamweaver (Current version CS4)



http://www.adobe.com...cts/dreamweaver $399

I know the price is high. Forget "high", insane would be a more appropriate word for that. I assure you that it fully deserves it price. It's the best hypertext editing software there. Basically it does more than half of you job done.

Well that would be all my friend. Good luck and also if you have more questions don't hesitate to ask me here or use private messaging .

Cheers!

Ah well, Dreamweaver is damn expensive, but can be worth it, but only if you're buying it for a company. Otherwise, a big ripoff D:

Anyway, I learned HTML during primary school, in grade 6, when I was offered to be taught HTML along with other selected students. Fairly easy after that, and I found HTML to be an easy and interesting language.

[greenpeace]

I learned HTML with the help of a computer magazine published in our local language, Malayalam, in 2001-2002.

I still remember the wonder it created when I opened an HTML file with simple marquee tag in MS Word and it started scrolling the text... That was an amazing "Hello World !" experience.

[Ash-Bash]

I was around 10 when I wanted to learn or build my own website using HTML. I had found out from a older friend of how to make a website. Back in the day when I was 10 I used Ask Jeeves a lot of the time and Searched 'Learn HTML' and came up with a 12 page tutorial that was very useful and easy to follow. I printed this off for feature reference and still have it today . I then took off from there learning from tutorials on these sort of sites and Youtube was a big part of it.

[phatuis]

I learnt it by:

a) Visiting W3Schools, they are one of the best ways to learn HTML.
Looking at Source Code of websites, trying to get ideas on how to do what

The best way to learn is to get the basics downpat, and then just experiment with HTML and CSS, if you do want to learn HTML I recommend learning CSS as well.

[legend112]

I used a head first html book that was really interesting and got me to grasp it in a very exciting way!

i then kinda ditched it since i just wanted to use it as a stepping stone, so now i'm on php, mysql which even more fun but i still work with html tags

[contactskn]

I started learning HTML when I started teaching in a college and the lecturar who was taking the HTML lectures was suffering from fever and was not able to take the class and he requested me to take the basic class atleast and as he was my best friend so I took his book and started reading it and gathered the necessary knowledge to take the class and like this I started learning HTML. 

[phatuis]

contactskn, on Nov 16 2009, 09:24 PM, said:

I started learning HTML when I started teaching in a college and the lecturar who was taking the HTML lectures was suffering from fever and was not able to take the class and he requested me to take the basic class atleast and as he was my best friend so I took his book and started reading it and gathered the necessary knowledge to take the class and like this I started learning HTML. 

This is a very fortunate way to come across such a vast subject

[mahesh2k]

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I started learning HTML when I started teaching in a college and the lecturar who was taking the HTML lectures was suffering from fever and was not able to take the class and he requested me to take the basic class atleast and as he was my best friend so I took his book and started reading it and gathered the necessary knowledge to take the class and like this I started learning HTML.

Reminds me of Einstein's quote that says you should explain things to your grandmother if she fails to understand that then that means you didn't get the thing as well. Sometimes teaching others is nice way of teaching yourself. Because people ask so many questions and we find answers to them and that way we learn a lot from it.

[onkarnath2001]

djleli, on Aug 10 2004, 03:22 AM, said:

HI, i am intresting in knowing where you began learning html of what inspired you to start learning html. which programs did you use or which progs dyu use?

in starting days,i used to use different tools,like front page editor..
later i went for dream weaver but i had a desire to learn html n css by coding.i gotthe site w3schools.com
this is a wonderful site to learn not only html but most of the web dev languages online.
they provide a line n=by line n step by step tutorial.
sill i am learning.good site

[getube]

In early days of my internet experience I was wondering how these pages are shown while i check email. My friend told me of the HTML sorce that create the page and that
there are dynamic pages too.

My fellow worker who is a computer teacher teach me the basic structure of html page and
other tags. Then i got a book from library "Internet Complete" bySYBEX INC, USA. I used to read it and work it out.

Now i used to google for any kind of my doubts in syntax in html and php