Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. Howto make website from scratch

You can put your site on the web using a free host

http://blog.jimmyr.com/List_of_Webhosting_Companies_17_2008.php

Yeah, it’s long. #1 requested tutorial on my page is how to make your own site though. I guess it beats those “learn html in 24 hours” books in any case. See the freehosts below on how to put your page online.

w3 html and css

http://www.w3schools.com/html/

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Simple HTML/CSS Layout Examples

http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/

http://www.code-sucks.com/css%20layouts/faux-css-layouts/

http://www.mycelly.com/

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html

Simple CSS Formatter

http://csstypeset.com/

HTML testing Sandbox

http://htmlsandbox.com/

CSS cheat sheet

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=css+cheat+sheet&btnG=Search

HTML Cheat sheet

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=html+cheat+sheet&btnG=Search

Group that standardizes html

http://www.w3.org/

MetaTags

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst=1&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=meta+tags&spell=1

doctype

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=doctype&btnG=Search

Adding Images as backgrounds

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp

RGB Color
You can indicate color by using RGB mode too. eg. #336699 is a nice blue google likes to use. It stands for 33 red, 66 green, and 99 blue in hexadecimal. Here’s a RGB color picker

http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html

Domains cost money, like $10 a year usually or less. I’m not going to endorse any registrars.

CSS rounded corners

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=css+rounded+corners&btnG=Search

Change the look when printing (media)

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html

CSS Popular Pages

http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=css&type=all

http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=top+css&type=all

HTML Validator

http://validator.w3.org/

CSS Validator

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Some decent text editors

http://www.context.cx/

http://www.pspad.com/

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

http://www.jedit.org/

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

http://www.notetab.com/

html forums

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.html/topics?lnk=gschg

CSS Forums

http://csscreator.com/?q=forum/

Info about “Lorem Ipsum” often seen on template pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

blah

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/01/how_we_make_websites.shtml

http://arbent.net/blog/css-tips-that-every-beginning-developer-should-know-about

CSS Transparency
IE
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
Firefox
-moz-opacity:0.5;
kde based browsers
-khtml-opacity: 0.5;
Safari
opacity: 0.5;

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25 Responses to “Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. Howto make website from scratch”

  1. ArchieJanic Says:

    This is a very …
    This is a very awesome tutorial, yeah mon! Keep up the good work Jimmy.

  2. pimpmyspy Says:

    awesome
    awesome

  3. Djmangoos Says:

    THATS C++
    THATS C++

  4. MissLorena54 Says:

    Best tutorial ever. …
    Best tutorial ever.
    Will subscribe and recommend this one.
    Easy to follow, friendly and very complete.
    Keep up with the great work
    Thank you

  5. locky15luvsbball Says:

    good tutorial and …
    good tutorial and how .long did this vid take to upload its like 40 minutes LONG

  6. 33Lloyd Says:

    Go to my page and …
    Go to my page and click on Learning HTML

  7. yourlocalloser Says:

    why is my left: …
    why is my left:100px not working? I don’t get it

  8. 33Lloyd Says:

    View my HTML VIDEO
    View my HTML VIDEO

  9. KyleLee408 Says:

    Love if JimmyR! It …
    Love if JimmyR! It really helped me. But I have one problem, I cannot get my picture to work. So if you can message me back as soon as possible then that would be great! Thanks for all the tutorials Jimmy! They are really helpful. I learnt 60% of the stuff about computers by you! You should make more tutorials about awesome stuff like this. Oh my… I better stop typing. I’m reaching the limit. Laugh out loud. Oh well thanks for all the tutorials JimmyR and keep up the good work there!
    -Kyle

  10. bhabooshka Says:

    so, … how is that …
    so, … how is that stupid?

  11. av8mm Says:

    Excellent tutorial. …
    Excellent tutorial. I really enjoyed how you used plain old notepad without talking down to people that use other methods of editing. I also liked how you provided examples of using what was intructed. I will look to see if you have other tuts out there as well.

  12. Rempa69 Says:

    thx
    it very help me

    thx
    it very help me

  13. GamerKnowsBest Says:

    nice
    nice

  14. Cadoan Says:

    Your voice and …
    Your voice and humor rocks. You made me chuckle several times. Thanks for an awesome video!

  15. 2237lemon Says:

    Thx JimmyR
    This …

    Thx JimmyR
    This video Rox

  16. MultiSuperfunny Says:

    39 min o.O
    39 min o.O

  17. AnArchyst666 Says:

    liked it, im …
    liked it, im learning html and css by myself at the moment and i really learned some from this tutorial too – thanx

    p.s. your voice rock lol ^^

  18. 233312 Says:

    this is stupid, im …
    this is stupid, im watchin this in computers class right now

  19. faZGGot Says:

    Tnx Tnx Tnx!!!!!!!

    Tnx Tnx Tnx!!!!!!!

    5/5 stars!!!!!!!

  20. lauraJuiceSmuggler Says:

    do u know what …
    do u know what needs a refresh? my brains o.O

  21. hecticGT Says:

    ?
    WTF?
    ?

    ?
    WTF?
    ?

  22. bigboy6969100 Says:

    i try it but i dont …
    i try it but i dont make my own link it only work on my desk top how can i have my own webpage so i can go to any computer and see my web page and how do i interact let me know ok thank you

  23. LiamGiles94 Says:

    the image code …
    the image code doesn’t work for me for some reason please help

  24. kazu2080 Says:

    I would like you to …
    I would like you to make another brilliant video about HTML and CSS or PHP or XML.

  25. inappropriategiggle Says:

    Perfect. Thank you.
    Perfect. Thank you.

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