I've got to do this project for class about creating an HTML page and implementing some specific stuff into it. I know quite a few people here are probably savvy with the language, can anyone direct me to a good place to learn the basics? This teacher did not teach us anything about it at all, unfortunately. Thanks in advance guys!
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp There's probably better ones out there but this site has the basics with simple examples.
How in depth does it need to be? There are some nice, easy wysiwyg editors out there that will help you with building a page. They give you a split view that allows you to edit a page visually then auto-generating the code for you. Google 'free wysiwyg HTML editor'
The NCSA's Beginner Guide to HTML (no longer active) would have been the best place to start. In its place, I give you the STANFORD guide: http://cmgm.stanford.edu/classes/IntroHTML/HTML_Guide.html Read this. It's pretty easy to pick up.
I haven't programmed in years, but I would say this is the best way to go. At least get a framework of what you're doing. And make changes where applicable.
http://www.codecademy.com/ if you really want to impress the homeboys and girls, get that JQuery and bootstrap set up http://getbootstrap.com/components/ Insert right before your closing body tag: script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js" (with the <> signs, I accidentally messed up Clutchfans lolz) If you want to test it live, http://jsfiddle.net/.
^ WTF?!?!? He needs to learn HTML, not JavaScript, like you showed. Come on, man... learn to crawl before you walk. That's like me asking you to compose a song in Chinese when you don't even know the language. Stopped reading there: HTML isn't "programming", sir.
Don't be so condescending, especially since from the OP's question, he obviously don't really know anything about HTML or programming in general. I prefaced by saying I haven't programmed in years because I have no idea what the current tools are when it comes to help support writing in HTML. Perhaps there are more beginner-friendly software today than there were years back.
Codeacademy has a HTML track---which mixes with a CSS track---you can hardly learn the first without the second these days. That's the first link. A walk-through on Web Fundamentals will do more then reading off W3 (at least with our ADHD prone generation). the rest is just for fun and kicks The JQuery track that follows is really not that hard either. screw regular html pages, make beautiful bootstrap carousels that explode. don't settle for less
i can follow instructions from a prompter, and type numbers and strings and mix it with some basic logic whooooo---but wait, you, and basically most people can too. It's not exactly Alan Turing level stuff (and the more people realize it, the better).
Seems odd that a teacher would expect you to know HTML for a project without any instruction, unless that was a prerequisite for the class.
I second the Codeacademy suggestion. Very easy to get into and the tutorials do a great job of walking you through and cementing the fundamentals. You might also try Lynda.com.
Use this. No serious developer would ever use w3schools for anything. I find YouTube tutorials great for learning new programming things, too. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls2pZXy-e1g I've used similar things for stuff like Spring and D3. Very useful. Might be because I'm an auditory learner, not a reader.
My goodness, gentlemen, stop trying to teach this kid some advanced stuff like CSS and JavaScript. The guy asked to learn HTML. If my correcting the proper terminology is "condescending", so be it, but HTML is markup, not programming. Stop confusing people into thinking they're the same. They're not the same. He needs to learn HTML, not be a "serious" developer. Next to the HTML Beginners' Guide, this is the good one:
