Looks clean/simple, lessons are well-organized, and the usage of white space / negative space is great. I don't get the font size comments. Command+Shift+'+' peoples.
Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
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Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#42Great thing to do but it doesn't seem to teach much of the basics. I'm not a developer but learning the core concepts of Programming at the moment and I can see someone doing the same thing for HTML may not understand anything about tags if they have no experience at all.
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always link people to http://htmldog.com/ over w3schools but I don't know if they have the same issues. They do offer a better layout and design imo and seem to be fine for the beginner.
Good god that site uses the same colors as Google ad-words I feel like it's a domain name placeholder, there's no emphasis on anything, everything is blue or light green and text is stretched in one long line (widescreen HD res). God, I feel confused looking at that site almost dizzy as my eyes try to find focus on the page - and I'm not exaggerating - this is the strangest design I've ever seen.
Well that's a shame, since it's one of the most easily navigated, comprehensive yet concise HTML and CSS guide and reference sites I've ever used. I come back to it time and time again, and I can't say I've ever shared your sentiments.
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#44I made this website for a course I am teaching at Code Academy ( http://codeacademy.org ) in Chicago, IL. The website here is a work in progress and is being tested out in class. Thanks for all of the feedback so far, I will do my best to incorporate it. Please stay tuned for updates and more lessons to come!
Looks fantastic, all i can say is: bigger fonts please, and don't give up finishing it! The world needs something better than w3schools, but simpler than MDN. You could be that.
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#45No one uses the strong tag.
NY Times uses strong. No one uses WBR.
Off the top of my head, Facebook uses to format link text. Eg
http://28.media.tumblr.com/
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Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#46I wish this was up on github so everyone could contribute to it to build a better set of docs
Makes a lot of sense.
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#47I made this website for a course I am teaching at Code Academy ( http://codeacademy.org ) in Chicago, IL. The website here is a work in progress and is being tested out in class. Thanks for all of the feedback so far, I will do my best to incorporate it. Please stay tuned for updates and more lessons to come!
Looks fantastic, all i can say is: bigger fonts please, and don't give up finishing it! The world needs something better than w3schools, but simpler than MDN. You could be that.
I agree. The design sense is going in the right direction; it needs simpler descriptions and clearer writing so that people who really don't have any experience can understand the tutorial. As was mentioned above, n00bs probably won't know what an "object" is.
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#48I am trying to learn HTML5. What are your favorite resources for this?
Thanks for this beginners guide. It is very helpful!
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#49I haven't read about css in ages, and I need to throw some together. I couldn't remember the syntax of the type, id and class selectors, specifically putting them together. You reference combining selectors, and then immediately give an example of "ul#social li a {". Does this mean list items and links within the ul with the id social? Or what?
tl;dr; The lesson is pretty poor. Sorry.
Re: Beginners Guide to HTML/CSS
#50I'm so mad I metacaptioned an image. http://i.qkme.me/35uqnl.jpg Seriously tho, http://screencast.com/t/Qunx72f4rJC I know these aren't ready yet so they're deemphasized, but I'd like to be able to read them anyway. :)
First, this kind of comment about the appearance of a website should be done by asking directly and nicely to the author. For example you can easily direct message him on twitter instead of polluting the HN comment thread which should always contain useful and informative comment.
Second. I can read them pretty nicely on my computer. It is clear a lot of work was made to make this website very nice. Your comment is a bit harsh.
Third, you are on HN, you should know how to read the code without being angry.