One question that I get asked quite often is; How did I learn HTML/CSS?
Well I did it backwards which looking back was probably the hardest way to learn, none the less I wasn't interested in the stuff that I thought was boring.
What I would do is design a web page, then find a website that for example had the logo in the same place mine was, I would then look at the source code and play around with it until I could get my design to look the way I wanted it to. Which of course sounds reasonable, only after hacking a website together I had no idea what code was doing what and sometimes adding more code would break other parts of the website.
I say I learnt it backwards because I found myself having to learn the very basics to get a good understanding of what was going on.
My advice to anyone would be to start with the very basics, yes at times its can seem very boring and tedious, but it will enable you to understand and pick up the cool stuff much quicker and look at the source code of websites you like and see if you can replicate it by writing code yourself.
Hope that helps.
Well I did it backwards which looking back was probably the hardest way to learn, none the less I wasn't interested in the stuff that I thought was boring.
What I would do is design a web page, then find a website that for example had the logo in the same place mine was, I would then look at the source code and play around with it until I could get my design to look the way I wanted it to. Which of course sounds reasonable, only after hacking a website together I had no idea what code was doing what and sometimes adding more code would break other parts of the website.
I say I learnt it backwards because I found myself having to learn the very basics to get a good understanding of what was going on.
My advice to anyone would be to start with the very basics, yes at times its can seem very boring and tedious, but it will enable you to understand and pick up the cool stuff much quicker and look at the source code of websites you like and see if you can replicate it by writing code yourself.
Hope that helps.
