I just launched my web design tutorial website: TagRookie.com. So far all I have uploaded is the HTML and CSS tutorials. I have completed an SQL tutorial, but am waiting to upload it while I finish typing up the PHP tutorial. Any reviews are greatly appreciated. I have worked as an application developer, not exactly a web designer, so my design skills may be subpar!
If you are going to teach beginners, please teach them up to date coding.
For example, you begin with html and right away teach newbies to use the font command. Please note this authoritative statement about that:
"The <font> Tag Should NOT be Used
The <font> tag is deprecated in the latest versions of HTML (HTML 4 and XHTML).
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has removed the <font> tag from its recommendations. In future versions of HTML, style sheets (CSS) will be used to define the layout and display properties of HTML elements."
I learned first from some sites I thought were up to date because they were widely referred to by other sites. One of the problems of the web that plagues newbies is the amount of sites that haven't been updated for years. I suffered through a lot of re-learning. It is much harder to try to forget something than not to learn it in the first place.
Please check out some authoritative sites like w3schools.com and get your skills up to date before teaching these practices to newbies to the web. They have enough trouble already.
Sorry to be so tough but I think this is very important. I do wish you well and I hope you will appreciate and profit from the comment.
Just a personal thing and no big deal but to me it looks better when sites don't take up the entire screen (at least not the text area where your main content is located). It's easier to read when the text is between an area of 350 and 600 pixels wide. These days more and more people have wider screens and in my opinion it looks best when the text is taking up a much smaller area.
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James- about the <font> tag... i was aware of its deprecation.. I just didn't want to jump in and teach CSS in the beginner's HTML tutorial. But after reviewing w3schools, apparently one can use the 'style' attribute to change font face.. I've never used it though, I should probably update this.
Lisa- I see what you mean, I will play with the margin.
Fearn- Thanks for pointing the error out! Perhaps you could elaborate on what you would like to see in terms of color splashing?
I just launched
Linear Mode
