What is Digg?26 Comments
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Everyone on Digg is a noob at SOMETHING.
- Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11My now standard W3Schools comment:
The comments attached to this weblog post are a good indication of the quality of the material that W3Schools provides:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/doron/archives/2005/05/w3schools.html
"the site's content itself is highly IE centric"
"It took me a couple of months of correspondance to get them to make a few simple changes to give their SVG (and any SVG written by their readers) a half chance of working in Moz."
"w3schools is a very lacking site."
"They don't even test their simple code samples."
"What good is a school that teaches the wrong content?"
You should also be aware that they have no connection to the W3C, althought they do a good job in convincing newbies otherwise - the choice of name, displaying W3C logos at the bottom of their pages, etc. Sleazy. - wintermute1974, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I would also recommend the W3Schools:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
The search on this site is great and all the CSS properties and attributes are there.
Of course, once you've written your (X)HTML/CSS masterpiece, make sure it validates.
The CSS validator is:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
The (X)HTML validator is:
http://validator.w3.org/
Finally, what normally surprises new web site creators is that Internet Explorer doesn't follow the CSS standards half as well as any of the other browsers out there, including Opera and Firefox. Do yourself a favor and download Dean Edwards' javascripts that fix Internet Explorer:
http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ - kriwil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7well, if you're a desktop apps programmers, HTML and CSS could be something new ...
- Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I only checked the front page, but the W3C validator says that their XHTML is valid, and the only CSS error reported is a known bug in the validator.
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2307 - FcukDt7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This site: http://www.wpdfd.com/
...got me up to speed on CSS very quickly. I recommend it a lot. - usp8riot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Uhhh, are you a "programmer" if you are new to HTML and CSS?
- backdoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, yes. I know many programmers who would fit that description. Later on in one's career, they might have a chance to experience every facet of programming. But, there is going to be point in everyone's career where they are familiar with one language and not familiar to another.
It probably just sounds odd to you because you know it. Or, it was the first thing you learned. But, there are, I'm sure, plenty of languages and technologies that others know that you do not. That doesn't earn either a more appropriate title of "programmer". - hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3*Quickly*... You are a *fast* learner, but you learn things *quickly*. ::sigh::
- kevyn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4this is old news... the link has been dugg before. i think it was called 'learn css in 20 steps' but i will say that this is a very good and fun tutorial for css (i didnt bother with the html one) and i built my first few sites with it.
What we really need is a website which kind of follows on from this one - nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Always good to find a new reference.
- Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ah, I've just started skimming the tutorial itself. You are right, they are promoting invalid code. A lot of the terminology is confused as well, they can't seem to get the difference between tags, elements and aelement types straight. Poor.
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, we do need a site that follows from this one. HTML Dog, in fact, is what I have used for quite a while when I need to go back and look something up since I don't use CSS too often, although I will say that it is a bit outdated. As the above poster mentioned, w3schools.com is probably a better resource at this point despite it's less appealing appearance.
- troller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found this site about a year ago, its great, for the HTML or CSS beginner
- dasil003, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are you a programmer if you are new to LISP? Sadly the answer appears to be maybe.
- jaswilli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You may use HTML and CSS in the course of certain types of programming, but HTML and CSS are not programming in and of themselves.
- Reno582, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My HTML class didn't even get to CSS, but it is in my textbook so i got to go through it
- elektrohrmnx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fast
fast - Definitions from Dictionary.com
adv.
3. In a rapid manner; quickly. - BrockLee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What does *new* have to do with it? I thought it was about finding a *better* reference.
- concept10, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5maybe there needs to be a link to "Learn how to submit a fresh story to digg using the search box in three steps! OMG"
- AndreasA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would like to recommend HTML.net:
HTML Tutorial: http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/introduction.asp
CSS Tutorial: http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/introduction.asp - MooKie89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I liked this site a lot because it showed steps easily with examples
- booststrong, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0This is a great guide for rookies. I have only minimal experience with HTML but I'm looking to build a website. These tutorials seem to be a great starting point, but I'm sure that once I get the hang of these concepts I will need to do a lot more reading to create a full-blown, good looking site.
Tip: don't just read, actually open notepad and do the coding. - elvirs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2every one is advertising his/her own made for adsense page.
what can I say? digg is getting worse, thanks to diggers - yohan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Why trust them with keeping your CSS and XHTML up to scratch when W3 Validator says theirs isn't even?
- neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3Digg needs to make a new section for noobs and this kind of stuff should be submitted there.
dugg for those noobs out there.
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