Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by jordanlev » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 6:41 PM UTC

dolguldur wrote: post #21

Anchoring onto this, but with different requirements: Are there tightly condensed resources to learn the most important bits of HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript really fast for somebody who otherwise knows how to code and has written some HTML a long ago. Or is it like with LaTeX that you just start and on-demand google the pieces?

You might like this one: http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by baby » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

Check https://thimble.mozilla.org/

Imo it is the best editor you can use to learn HTML and CSS.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by thomasjbradley » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 6:48 PM UTC

I teach web development in a graphic design program. You’re welcome to check out my resources: https://learn-the-web.algonquindesign.ca/

All the tutorials & videos are available there as well as the curriculum and assignments for each week.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by travmatt » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 6:53 PM UTC

jordanlev wrote: post #41

dolguldur wrote: post #21

Anchoring onto this, but with different requirements: Are there tightly condensed resources to learn the most important bits of HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript really fast for somebody who otherwise knows how to code and has written some HTML a long ago. Or is it like with LaTeX that you just start and on-demand google the pieces?

You might like this one: http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

I powered through this tutorial in two days and would highly recommend it to anyone - I feel like as though I took quite a bit away from his teaching.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by Theodores » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 7:48 PM UTC

Wordpress. Add theme. Change what you don't like by Googling stuff. Get site built.

There is not a lot of utility in HTML + CSS on its own, unless you want 1996 style web pages that are static.

Knowing HTML is one thing, being able to build something in Wordpress will be far more CV worthy.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by jcoffland » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 8:07 PM UTC

As with any tech the best way to learn it is to use it. Work on a small project that you are interested in. Skim tutorials, other people's code and manuals to figure out how to do so.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by Excavator » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 8:17 PM UTC

jordanlev wrote: post #34

jxm262 wrote: post #20

I've always recommended Mozilla's Developer Network (MDN) - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ It has alot of good resources and a wealth of information. As a seasoned web developer, this is still one of my go-to sites for documentation on web related stuff.

I think MDN can be a good reference when you want to find out details about something, but I don't think it's very helpful to newbies who don't even know what it is they're supposed to be learning.

There's a whole subsection dedicated to learning on MDN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by hanniabu » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 8:35 PM UTC

My opinion on best to worst codeschool(paid, ~$500/year) codecademy freecodecamp or googling tutorials for what you want to learn to do

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by sadok » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 8:53 PM UTC

metasean wrote: post #13

I run a group with almost 600 JavaScript learners. With this many people, we've been through the vast majority of self-study resources. My goto recommendation for learning HTML, CSS, & JavaScript is http://www.freecodecamp.com/ This has consistently had the best results for our learners! It (a) assumes no knowledge coming in, (b) provides a linear progression from no knowledge to a portfolio of web applications, (c)…

+1 for Freecodecamp, also something that helped me a LOT was actually doing projects. Specifically, Envato Tuts+ has a lot of PSD to HTML conversion courses that helped a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

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Post by revorad » Sat, Feb 06, 2016, 9:32 PM UTC

I recommend the following:

1. Check out Jennifer Dewalt's project 180 websites in 180 days - http://jenniferdewalt.com

2. Free Code Camp is quite good (but the focus is more on coding rather than design) - http://www.freecodecamp.com

3. Nathan Barry's books are great - http://nathanbarry.com/books

4. [Plug] - I'm starting a new site for online courses and need beta testers for some HTML and CSS courses which go from scratch to pro level. Happy to give your friend early access for free - http://learnetto.com