I would personally like to learn HTML and more web based skills. I am currently in college for programming, C/C++, Java and the like.
Yet this takes quite a bit of time. I am about to journey into the realms of business with a website. Should I go ahead and spend the next few months on w3schools.com or some other website learning, or should I look for help?
Simply put, is it worth learning to do it? Or will it be better to focus on my programming and get help?
I think its worth learning to program HTML and CSS, especially seen as its very easy.
The question is whether your a designer. If your not, then your pages wont look good - if you are then transfering some graphics to a HTML file is far from difficult.
Of course, paying a professional is always good, as they know what they're doing - whether you want to use your website programming skills commercially is also of significance.
Hmm, it is for commercial use. It will be selling and promoting items of different natures.
I am somewhat familiar with photoshop, I'm not great, but I'm not abysmal in the graphics department. http://www.geocities.com/Jovollo/ is where i have a few things, fairly old.
I'd like a good looking layout and page design. I have ideas in mind, and I do know a little bit of HTML. But I have no applicable knowledge of it. In other words, I don't have the skills to use it properly.
I would like to get started within the next few days on the site, but to do that, I would need some skilled help. I could wait a month and then start once I learn.
Sorry my last post was a little fragmented. I meant to include this information, a little distracted.
But the question still stands, is it worth it for me to learn? Or would it be better to invest in professional/semi-professional help. Learning it is cheaper in the long run, and if you do your page now and keep on making more pages over the next months, your skillz will improve, and eventually you may be able to produce a page which looks professional.
The question is how good your patience is and whether you want something that sells your product immediately or dont mind waiting.
I'm a semi-professional webdesigner, and will gladly help you with both design and coding questions / evaluation - just mail me...
the best way to start is like everything else, is from from the beginning, to learn the basic try this two sites:
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com
http://www.w3schools.com
you gonna need software. you are a beginner, so the best way for you to learn is with a WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) software. there are a lot of this kind, but you could try dreamweaver, i think is easy to understand the way it works.
if you want to be a webdesigner, try to see what other people are doing, this way you can earn more creativity. these are only 2 websites were you can fing free templates. download one or two, and see how they work.
http://www.freewebtemplates.com/
http://www.templatesbox.com/
the bussiness in the internet can be expensive, and can take long before your earn something, try to be selective. There are a lot of sites that can help you how to earn money from your website.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/
best of luck, any questions PM me Learn HTML and CSS. With your C++ skills you will be a master 
As a PHP, HTML and CSS man myself, I KNOW that w3schools is the best around and always will be...ROCK ON..basically use it! I'm totally lazy i depend on Dreamweaver to learn some CSS however I do cleanup code after what dreamweaver dumped but i have hard time to keep track of tables so draw them first then modify them later otherwise i get lost with the td and tr 
I learned most of my HTML from good old Netscape Composer (whatever that was called) and other code from random websites I find online 
But then I'm not a real coder hehe so you might want to learn to do things the proper way (not sure what that is 
) I really appreciate all the input from everyone. I've been on w3Schools.com the past 2 days and I've been through quite a few tutorials. I'm about to start work on Tables and stylesheet things.
I have another question. http://www.pimpmypoker.com/customize.html
There is a customizer application. Does anyone know what thats done with? I don't know much but i believe that you need a lot more than HTML to create that customizer. Its probably like C++ (That's a complete guess so no one jump in and go "This guy doesn't know anything.") Good luck with the whole scripting thing though. 
| Em_de_Tech wrote: |
| I don't know much but i believe that you need a lot more than HTML to create that customizer. Its probably like C++ (That's a complete guess so no one jump in and go "This guy doesn't know anything.") Good luck with the whole scripting thing though. |
Hehe...
It's made in Flash, but could be done in pretty much anything - even javascript!
