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HEY!
i was looking for a few tutorial websites for coding.
i currently use W3schools but would like to try and see/use some others to create more effects and things which i havent been able to see how to do within W3schools.
so if anyone knows a few goods sites please post links
im sure this thread will come in handy for other people who want to create websites and have no or little experience much like myself not long ago and i still have little experience now and am only creating basic websites.

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I'd recomend using a few websites as reference, not following tutorials. That way, you learn to really code and find a style that best suits you, not just verbatim copy templates.

i havent just copyed any templates for the website im working on ATM, i did for my first one (calumsdiscos.co.uk) but im recoding that with loads more CSS anyway. this 1 i have used tutorials as reference but coded as much asi could without referring to them. i have struggled to use websites for reference as i sometimes get confused on "why"or "what" tags are for... but with a tut it is easy ad explained making it easy to learn from for first few websites, obviosuly.

Of course thay are useful, expecially since they are complete, so you can look up many things in them. Plain old references might have a few things missing, while a tutorial would have to have them, unless it said "Step 7 - Guess what to do now".

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Originally posted by rav0
while a tutorial would have to have them, unless it said "Step 7 - Guess what to do now".

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yer -  i do see what you mean by using other websites to code from but you'd need to find websites which are close to what you want but a tutorial gives you the stuff for what everyone wnats (well...sometimes)
i just want to see what other tutorial websites there are so that i can maybe learn from another one aswell and combine 2 or mroe website tutorials to create a realy good website

You're probably best off using W3Schools as a reference, and analysing tutorial code and website code to see examples of usage in the 'real world'. Then, based on all that info, experiment Nothing beats learning by screwing up repeatedly That's how I learned XHTML and CSS, and bits of the Win32 API as well.

raceprouk is sooooo right. Best way I learnt was by stealing others code and ideas and devloped them into my own. You need something to practice on, show off your skills, how about trying this

Using tables create this template:



Try making it XHTML valid while you are coding, you will learn so much by coding something so simple

i havent yet used tables to create anything like that.
I am making my current website XHTML compatable but have not yet added the XHTML tag at the top as i couldnt see the screen to find out which one i needed.
also my own website (calumsdiscos.co.uk) will be recoded from scratch after the one i am working on now to use more CSS, less HTML and be CHTML compatable

lol good to hear, XHTML is really no different from html, but is a better way to code.

I suggest this doctype for you

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!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

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And use W3 to validate it

Also try my design, it is simple and you will learn all about tables from it Practice on different things is the way forward

do i keep the

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Originally posted by Absorbation
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

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that bit set as w3.org/TR.....
or do i change it to something to do with my website?

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Originally posted by W3 validator

I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the "UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.

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huh?