Hi Dan,
I have worked with Front Page, as well as Dreamweaver in the past, and
just took a community college course in web design because I wanted more
training in the actual coding. There are great no-cost learning
resources at
http://www.w3schools.com/
I also recommend this book for learners, _Head First HTML with CSS and
XHTML_. It explains as well as demonstrates, and works well while
learning the tags and initial coding. Other books are stronger as
reference tools once you have some general understanding of the code and
want further details. But _Head First HTML_ is a great teacher. I bought
mine used on amazon.com .
If you do want to learn how the code actually works, you can just start
writing code using a book as reference, in a Notepad file, and saving it
using a .html extension. Then you can select the file and see how it
displays in the browser. No investment in software and you get to learn
the real coding.
Re. taking a course, you might want to ask about the format of the class
for which you are registered. I and another friend who is also a
technical writer both took a community college course in web design and
we found it disappointing in terms of depth of content and the
instructor's willingness to field questions. It is a skill you learn by
doing, over and over. My class had only a few (large) assignments, and
the instructor gave no feedback on the coding, just a number grade. So
see if you can check out some details about how your class will run.
Just my two cents, but maybe you can benefit from our experience.
regards,
Amy Vastola
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