[Spit-wad]

You and me together, Mak. Summer started a week ago, I have a lot of down time at work... time to learn this stuff.

I also got a "Dreamweaver Bible" for my birthday... book is like 2000 pages lol.

[oldskool]

My suggestion - and I bet Craze will agree - practice makes perfect. Don't rush it, not that I believe that either of you would, Mak and Spit-wad. But just be patient, as coding is VERY VERY literal. You have even so much as an "{" missing or in the wrong place and kaput ! nothing happens. So you will end up visiting and revisting your code over and over. Be patient, and you both will make great strides.

[Spit-wad]

yeah

I've gone through html and css in w3schools a couple times... I can manipulate those just fine, but don't think I could just start coding from scratch (without the help of a wsiwyg). I don't have any books or anything like Mak, so hopefully those websites that CrazeD listed will be enough.

[CrazeD]

Originally Posted by Spit-wad

yeah

I've gone through html and css in w3schools a couple times... I can manipulate those just fine, but don't think I could just start coding from scratch (without the help of a wsiwyg). I don't have any books or anything like Mak, so hopefully those websites that CrazeD listed will be enough.

You really shouldn't need a book for xhtml/CSS. It's not really a language so to speak, you just have to memorize standards and tags. You can completely learn xhtml/CSS using w3schools only.

I have a CSS book that I picked up, called CSS Mastery. It's not really a book you pick up when you're a newbie and learn CSS (although you probably could), it's more like a reference, or a cook book. It shows you how to do various things with CSS, how to fix the many bugs and undesired effects with different browsers, etc. Very good book, I recommend it.

EDIT: Also, I've been kind of lazy with my PHP Video tutorial thing. I figured I'd spend a lot of time on that, but I haven't really. I'm going to try to make some more soon, maybe that will help you guys out too.

[Spit-wad]

yeah, i have your installing mysql, apache, etc guide bookmarked for when im ready to use it

i watched one of your video tuts before that was really helpful, too.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by CrazeD

You really shouldn't need a book for xhtml/CSS. It's not really a language so to speak, you just have to memorize standards and tags. You can completely learn xhtml/CSS using w3schools only.

I have a CSS book that I picked up, called CSS Mastery. It's not really a book you pick up when you're a newbie and learn CSS (although you probably could), it's more like a reference, or a cook book. It shows you how to do various things with CSS, how to fix the many bugs and undesired effects with different browsers, etc. Very good book, I recommend it.

EDIT: Also, I've been kind of lazy with my PHP Video tutorial thing. I figured I'd spend a lot of time on that, but I haven't really. I'm going to try to make some more soon, maybe that will help you guys out too.

CrazeD, I want to mention that I checked out some of the videos and I think it's great that you are doing that, I hope you do get back to it. Just wanted to let you know I think it is a great idea.