Web Building Tutorials
Nov 27th, 2007 by Bethany
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Last night Colin showed me a site called www.w3schools.com that has free online "web building" tutorials. I just finished taking the HTML tutorial and it was quite thorough. I'd never had any education in HTML besides the basic self-taught trial-and-error of building a web page from a template and messing around in Dreamweaver and building a WordPress blog. I was familiar with a lot of the material, but there was a lot of information I gleaned from this tutorial on w3schools that I think will be very helpful to me in the future. It was easy to understand (they give just the right number of examples) and very hands-on, with an online HTML editor that lets you experiment with the things you're learning as you go.
They call them "web building" tutorials because it's not just programming languages they teach, but all sorts of other helpful concepts like how to do databases and how to set up servers. The site has a good overview of what you need to be familiar with to get started, then it goes in depth into how to do it and what to do when you're no longer a beginner. There are code validation tools to make sure you are following standardization rules. They even have quizzes to help you test your knowledge after completing each tutorial.
Lots of you probably already know about w3schools, but people like me who are interested in doing more on the web but who are just getting started might not know about it. So, check it out!
