The basics of web design

A couple of weeks ago I posted some tutorials made by Adam Dachis of Lifehacker showing you how to go about starting a video editing project.  This time he's been busy (with Adam Pash) doing much the same thing with an emphasis on building your first web site (this is what we do on our MED102 module).  Below you'll find links to his videos and the text-based pages walking you through the various processes.

#1 - Understanding and writing HTML



Here's a link to a handy HTML cheat sheet.

#2 - Styling and CSS



#3 - A site from start to finish




#4 - Choosing a host and launching your site



#5 - Additional resources



If you fancy a .pdf download of all the text then click here to get that.

Let's start at the beginning...

For someone who loves technology I have to admit to being part technophobe. By this I mean that I neverhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif ever really got around to learning the basics of writing for the web. I have enrolled on a free very short HTML course ran via about.com. I have always been a WYSIWYG kind of guy but I figured this road does lead to empowerment. This will be the third attempt at this kind of thing that I've embarked upon. I never finish anything.

The course should last 10 weeks and will hopefully make my sufficiently conversant with the basics that I can spruce up the template for this blog (although I'm not quite convinced of this point myself). I have no desire to setup and maintain my own site at a cost so I opted for the free Yahoo/Geocities route. Tight, eh? For anyone who is interested, but really more for myself that anything else, you can see the work in progress over on Geocities:

http://www.geocities.com/robjewitt@ymail.com/