So I'm like super hooked into this types of sites right- also neocities, etc. But I know NOTHING about coding, and I wanna make those like super cool interacting websites, but html is SO HARD! I got a book from my dad today when I told him I wanted to learn codinga so I guess I'll start there, but omg. I feel like giving up already lol
neocities is extremely hard for me (for some reason) but personally how i learned html was by using bases, replacing images and customizing layout bases (and following youtube tutorials)!! over time i started remembering snippets of code until i could code entire profiles, but i dont know what would work for you!
@dearnicole
i second this, thats pretty much how i got a general idea of the basics
i want to make rlly cute layouts to match pfps i have
but i have no clue about coding and its restricting my creativity
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i have no mouth and i must scream type situation (no offense, of course)
I_AM_NOT_A_DEFECT.
@B3rryBombPie! !ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ dude same? i tried but its hopeless lol
dude idek i just copied what i had for spacehey on here lol and like idk get on neocities or smt ive heard it helps
well i usually look at other's layouts and then google everything i don't understand in a code. also this website is very useful https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_pr_border-end-end-radius.php
honestly i just took stuff from spacehey
video tutorials also helps a lot !!
Video tutorials are WAY easier than books, especially if you find ONE person who has made a playlist slowly walking you through it all step by step.
Like TheNewBoston a.k.a. formerly buckysroom for a lot of programming languages.
Really it's just about being confused af for hours, and trying things and just asking more questions, and playing around trying to figure out why things don't work for hours or days sometimes. Really it's about persistence, and then one day you wake up and realize that you did in an hour what used to take you a week. Then you wake up one day usually years after that and realize that what used to take you an hour only takes you 5 minutes and you are really just limited by how fast you can type the code, make more plans, and debug.
Persistence, persistence, persistence. It doesn't matter how smart someone is, it doesn't matter how talented someone is, someone with persistence will beat them EVERY time. Even Einstein didn't think he was the smartest guy at all, but he did acknowledge that he worked and thought about problems far longer and harder than anyone else he ever met.
learn the ABCs of a language and then go from there
Dude books suck, if you're interested beyond making a layout maybe try freecodecamp it makes you try what you learn and give you the basics, the hardest thing isn't the rules of HTML or CSS it's how you translate your vision into code and that just needs practice
if its just for fun maybe video tutorials and some pre-made layouts?
@Somedeadpoet ohh okay, ty for suggesting that, ill try it!
open inspect mode w/ f12 in most web browsers
you can view the css for any given web page
then just play around w/ the values like color, height, width, padding etc.
dw it won't make permachanges - everything resets on browser reload anyway
and its a v good way to learn how stuff works
also
https://www.w3schools.com/css <--an invaluable resource for ppl wanting to learn css
update: here's a lil edit i just made using inspect mode
lower left panel is the html tree (e.g. html, head, body, etc.)
and the right panel is all the css for that particular element
you can also right click a section of a page, select "inspect"
you'll then see the css values attributed to it
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@max OMG! that looks so helpful!! tysm!!
Embarrassing suggestion kinda but I lwk started by making those episode stories. They made things easier to understand while also teaching basic coding techniques. I would start by making silly little stories until u get the hang of them :)
@Nonya_BUIZNEZZ ohhh mby I could try thatt ty!
I'm still struggling with it. But what has helped me a lot is finding a simple layout on here, and slowly editing it to my liking. Viewing the code in the edit layout tab is too confusing and small. I downloaded a free program called visual studio code to test things out. This also helps becuae it has an undo button that I can use when I realize something went wrong. You can use ctrl +click on a link in the app to open it and then you realize what parts are for what!
Trial and error has helped me recognize a few parts of the code. Still learning!
@xXMissParamourXx omg that is so smart and helpful! I'll try it!
for learning html i recommend these two sites
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
also, you can edit and pick apart code so you understand whats its doing
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