There are many helpful websites in existance today with completely free information to teach you web design. If you require the most power and flexibility possible, learning how HTML works, along with programming langues like JavaScript or PHP, is a critical step. There are many visual editors which help simplify this for you, however these too will require some learning, but even with thier help it is still often useful, if not crucial, to know how to make minor changes to the code by hand.
We hope that you will find the resources listed below useful, and believe them to contain helpful, quality information, but please remember that we are not responsible for the production of these sites and cannot guarantee their accuracy or the quality of their content, and cannot be held accountable for any problems you may have as a direct result of their content.
- W3C - The official website of the Worldwide Web Consortium, one of several key organizations in charge of standardizing the format for content on the web. Contains detailed descriptions of all tags in many markup and styling languages, as well as parsers to automatically check your documents for common errors.
- W3Schools - An excellent source for tutorials in many different programming and markup languages, as well as detailed breakdowns of tags and syntax.
- Webmonkey - Fun tutorials and commentary on web technologies for beginners and professionals alike
- Cynthia Says - Contains tools useful for validating Section 508 and WAI compliance, standards meant to keep web pages readable, even for those with old browsers, eye sight difficulties, etc.
- AbsoluteCross - One of many websites maintained by individuals, containing many useful tutorials on both coding and image editing and media creation using popular programs like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, or Macromedia Flash.
- Wikipedia:HTML - Wikipedia, a free and freely editable online encycleopedia, includes numerous resources, both directly through content and through external references, that should be excellent sources of information for beginners and intermediate users.
- Google - Search engines such as Google (or Yahoo!, AltaVista, or many others) are ultimately many developers first source for information. A quick search cna reveal almost anything anyone would ever want to know about anything, but naturally this is the case even moreso when you happen to be researching some of the very items you are using to perform the research. There is very, very little information in existance today that can't be found somewhere on the web.