Ciara-Fan
04-18-2006, 02:48 PM
i REALLY WANT TO START A CIARA FANSITE BUT I CAN'T SEEM TO GET THE WHOLE HTML THING IT'S REALLY HARD AND WHEN I TRY TO LEARN IT I FORGET I REALLY NEED SUM HELP
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View Full Version : HTML Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ciara-Fan 04-18-2006, 02:48 PM i REALLY WANT TO START A CIARA FANSITE BUT I CAN'T SEEM TO GET THE WHOLE HTML THING IT'S REALLY HARD AND WHEN I TRY TO LEARN IT I FORGET I REALLY NEED SUM HELP maztrin 04-18-2006, 02:55 PM well i would suggest learning basic HTML there are plenty of books, forums such as this and online help for a person to learn. for your ciara fansite i would suggest first doing a plan, of all the things that you would want to include int he site and then work from there. but firstly i think it would be a very good idea if you learnt some HTML first. what exaclty do you know about HTML? Ciara-Fan 04-18-2006, 03:26 PM I dont really kno a lot like i said i learn 1 minute the next i forget maztrin 04-18-2006, 03:38 PM then i would suggest getting a HTML book so that you have a reference close at hand. i would then open up Notepad and start practicing. the internet is always good for learning but a book may be better for you.Try here also it will help you step by step to learning html: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp kiwee 04-18-2006, 04:06 PM Just practise, When I started, I kept forgetting how to do stuff now I can do it quickly off the top of my head ;) J to the izzosh 04-18-2006, 06:39 PM Yeah, I wouldn't let the memory thing bother you. I'm still constantly referencing materials for things that I've forgotten the specifics of. Like, I can never remember how to write the doctype declaration at the beginning of an XHTML file. Your best bet, as mentioned above, is to just get a book with lots of good, standards-oriented examples; this will allow you to get the basics down. From there, you'll have to get used to looking stuff up a lot; you can't be expected to remember everything. Ciara-Fan 04-18-2006, 06:46 PM Yeah, I wouldn't let the memory thing bother you. I'm still constantly referencing materials for things that I've forgotten the specifics of. Like, I can never remember how to write the doctype declaration at the beginning of an XHTML file. Your best bet, as mentioned above, is to just get a book with lots of good, standards-oriented examples; this will allow you to get the basics down. From there, you'll have to get used to looking stuff up a lot; you can't be expected to remember everything. <html> <head> <title>Ciara-Corner</title> </head> <body> This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b> </body> </html> Wat do i put between the HTML Tags and Header Tags and Body G-commer 04-18-2006, 06:58 PM Between the HTML tags, you only usually only put the head and body sections. In the head section, you put things that describe what your site will be like. It shouldn't make content on the page, just include information like the title, scripts, and style sheets. The body section contatins all the content that will show up on the page, like paragraphs, menus, text-formatting, and all sorts of other fun stuff. J to the izzosh 04-18-2006, 07:03 PM I don't mean to sound offensive, but if you need to ask that question, then you really need a book, or a tutorial, or something, and to practice more. Unfortunately, no one here has the time to actually teach you web design from the ground up. We're good for advice and helping fix little problems, but for anything more, you should really put in more time researching things, or just hire someone to do the work. That being said... The <html> and </html> tags just define the area that is your HTML document. You should only have two of them in the document: the opening <html> at the beginning, and the closing </html> at the end. Everything in your HTML document (except for a doctype declaration, if you are using XHTML) should be inside these tags. Nothing (except doctype, again) should be outside of them, and their should not be any duplicate instances of these tags. Ever. The header (<head></head>) section of your document contains information about your document (metadata). You must have a <title> here. You can also put information about your site here like which style sheets the browser should use to display your page, keywords and a description for search engines, script files that should be executed when displaying your site, etc. No content that will actually be displayed to the user should be in this section of your document (excepting anything in a script which might generate content). Like the <html> tags, there should only be a single instance of these tags in your document. The body (<body></body>) of your site is where you put stuff that will be displayed to your users. All of your text, images, forms, etc. It should also occur only once in your document. Hope that helps. Ciara-Fan 04-18-2006, 07:23 PM I don't mean to sound offensive, but if you need to ask that question, then you really need a book, or a tutorial, or something, and to practice more. Unfortunately, no one here has the time to actually teach you web design from the ground up. We're good for advice and helping fix little problems, but for anything more, you should really put in more time researching things, or just hire someone to do the work. That being said... The <html> and </html> tags just define the area that is your HTML document. You should only have two of them in the document: the opening <html> at the beginning, and the closing </html> at the end. Everything in your HTML document (except for a doctype declaration, if you are using XHTML) should be inside these tags. Nothing (except doctype, again) should be outside of them, and their should not be any duplicate instances of these tags. Ever. The header (<head></head>) section of your document contains information about your document (metadata). You must have a <title> here. You can also put information about your site here like which style sheets the browser should use to display your page, keywords and a description for search engines, script files that should be executed when displaying your site, etc. No content that will actually be displayed to the user should be in this section of your document (excepting anything in a script which might generate content). Like the <html> tags, there should only be a single instance of these tags in your document. The body (<body></body>) of your site is where you put stuff that will be displayed to your users. All of your text, images, forms, etc. It should also occur only once in your document. Hope that helps. That help a lot thank u so much |