Another great way to learn coding skills is to join a group--one excellent
one in particular is www.web405.org There are about 400 folks on there ,
many who have been working the WWW since day one and they are more than
happy to offer help, advice, pointers to resources, do site checks and
problem solving, etc. The list does have the occasional topic drift, but if
you have a question, people are always glad to help.
Julia Countryman
The Chakra Shack
www.chakrachack.com
(951) 659-5809
ju...@chakrachack.com
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From: "Amy Vastola" <a...@nycap.rr.com>
To: <TCP@techcommpros.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:47 AM
Subject: [TCP] learning web skills
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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