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5PEEDz · 06-03-08

i always wanted to design and make my own website.
i finally started learning how to use PhotoShop and now thinkin about making a template. i dont know much about it, but i do know that you have to code your designs am correct? how long would this take. would it be hard to learn?

archangelabove · 06-03-08

www.w3schools.com

Everything you could ever want to know in the realm of the interwebz.

And I mean everything.

Jamster325 · 06-03-08

Yes you do have to code you designs, to my knowledge anyway

The way I go about it is by creating a html / php file and a css file.

Basic format of a html page

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Title goes here</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" media="screen" />

</head>
<body>

<div id="masthead">

<div id="badge"></div> ---- Exaple of div tags

<div id="logo"></div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

Samle of css file

#container {
margin:0 auto;
width:847px;
}

#masthead {
height:248px;
position:relative;
}

#logo {
background:url(../images/header2.jpg) top left no-repeat;
height:248px;
position:absolute; bottom:0px; left;0px;
width:100%;
}

Not sure how much you know already, just a quick example really

onlycodered · 06-03-08

I actually learned almost all the CSS and HTML I know (I'm very fluent

) by looking at the source code of websites.

Jamster325 · 06-03-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by archangelabove

www.w3schools.com

Everything you could ever want to know in the realm of the interwebz.

And I mean everything.

I was trying to find the link for this site as I used it when I was learning, Still do actually, just reloaded so it wasnt in favs

, It's a really good site

archangelabove · 06-03-08

Yea, View Source is the single greatest resource to learn coding.

You start to recognize styles and develope your own..

Also, View Source lets you steal other peoples code and improve it.. or make it worse if you don't know what you are doing.

5PEEDz · 06-03-08

i know a BIT about HTML. but how does HTML turn into designs?? is it because u break ur templates using photoshop and then use the link of the broken pieces on HTML?

**t4ct1c47** · 06-03-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by 5PEEDz

i know a BIT about HTML. but how does HTML turn into designs?? is it because u break ur templates using photoshop and then use the link of the broken pieces on HTML?

You can use forms and tables to arrange the page to look how you desire.

An example of a basic webpage:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Basic Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello, I am a basic webpage
</body>
</html>

Simply copy and past the above code into notepad and save it wih a htm, or html, extention.

5PEEDz · 06-04-08

thanks. how long would it take for me to be able to code a template o.O

stupid · 06-05-08

I like to steal templates and customize

Good way to learn.

You should be able to get together a decent template in a few hours.

Be sure to learn CSS, as hard-coding styles into the html elements makes for code updating nightmares!

Some great tools for learning are the FireBug, and Web Developer extensions for FireFox.

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