You'll want to choose your tutorials carefully. The tutorials listed above are pleasant enough to read, but they don't teach modern, best practice techniques. Annabella's and Lissa's tutorials feature presentational HTML elements and attributes that were deprecated in 1999. Deprecated constructs like font, center, bgcolor, vlink, and alink have been replaced by CSS. A site controlled by external CSS is easier to maintain, redesign, troubleshoot, faster loading, and more a lot more flexible. HTML Goodies was updated (mostly) to teach in-line styles instead of presentational HTML, but you lose all the benefits listed above when in-line styles are used.

HTML Dog is well-organized and it teaches best practice xHTML and CSS.

HTH,
Carol

Hi Carol, thanks so much for the additional resource, I'll add HTML Dog as well to the directory of resources.
Considering that the majority of our current membership are operating on pre-made website templates and DIY formats the previously mentioned tutorials are good in that they are easy to follow for beginners who don't know a lick about CSS.
HTML dog does look to be a great site for those who have a more advanced website and wish to work from an external CSS (as you mentioned.)
Although I do see that the tutorials are listed in terms of experience level, starting at 'beginner' - which is excellent for those who are willing to learn!

I completely agree with you that best practices and updated methods of coding any web page would be recommended (as opposed to the alternative) whenever possible. Thanks very much for bringing that up

I'm still interested to find out more about your own virtual assistance practice? Clearly you take your coding very seriously, and that's great - is custom code and design a service you provide your clientele as well? Just curious

Additionally, and totally off topic, I'm wondering what 'HTH' stands for?

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Hi Carol,

I do agree with you 100% that there are mch newer & better ways of creating a website nowadays. The links I posted are easy to use and read for the absolute beginner.

I look forward to checking out your link in a bit!

Originally Posted by Jacky

Okay, here it is: http://www.lissaexplains.com/

Jacky, that is a great site for us new to web design. There is a link in the site to an ebook that I really got some useful information as far as statistics on preferences to web design, such as using buttons or text . The ebook is a little old, but still useful.

Thanks for all of the resources, I'll be checking them out. I am new member and I appreciate the wealth of knowlege here.

Kristen

Originally Posted by Tess

One of the biggest favors you can do for yourself as the owner of a website is to learn a bit of HTML - this gives you the freedom to make minor adjustments to your website's text, font, links, and images without having to pay someone to do these things for you. This will not only save you money but will put you that much more in control of your business - which is, of course, one of the reasons you wanted your own business in the first place! Following is a great link with quick and easy instructions for very basic HTML tags and code. You can learn how to create bulleted lists on your site (to better offset your list of services), how to make fonts bold or a different color, how to make the text italicized or a different size, how to link pages, how to add images to your pages, etc. Check out this great list of easy to understand tutorials written specifically with those who have *no* HTML experience at all: "If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start"

I agree, I couldn't have a website where I couldn't access it in 'text editing' and manage or resolve any problems in html.