beginner html help

I'm teaching myself html & css by constructing a basic wee site (free hosting, a few directories, nothing too complicated) and I was interested in putting a box (for a blog/"word of the day" style feature) in the top right hand corner of the main page, but I cannot figure out a way to do this. I would appreciate it greatly if someone could provide a basic framework that I could work around for constructing this feature.

Also, I would appreciate a recommendation for an HTML reference book that is available in the UK.

I LERNED HTML AND CSS WHEN I WAS 11 BY LOOKING AT SOURCE CODEZ.

GTFO failure.

Well I'm not you, and I'm not 11, so I'd appreciate some adult advice. This isn't /b/.

Nor is this Google.

>>2
Just like me, but by that age I also was already an expert Logo programmer.

>>3
Oh yes, it is. It's just like /b/, only without Gaiafags and different topics. We still hate people like you, HTML faggots, just like /b/tards hate people from Gaiaonline

As for the book, you know what to read.

Don't learn HTML, learn BBCode

WE ARE EXPERT BBCODE PROGRAMMERS

Fuck your shit, I'm going to 4-ch

Just use tables. CSS is for web 2.0 wankers.

Tables are alright. The stunts you have to pull with CSS to achieve the same are not worth it. Right tool for the right job. I love CSS. I use lots and lots of it. But for tables, I use TABLE. For columns, I use TABLE because it was created for that purpose (and the real columns feature is not yet widely supported).

http://4-ch.net/code/kareha.pl/1184699015/l50

Damn you immature 4chan anons

>>1

Here's where I learned all my HTML.  There's also tutorials on XML,CSS,JavaScript, and almost everything web related.  Hope this helps.

http://w3schools.com/

>>12
I looked up that website at work a lot.

People seem to ignore the fact that CSS and tables don't have to be mutually exclusive. I use tables when I need to do multi-column layouts, since just like >>9 said, at the moment there are no non-retarded, cross-platform methods to do it in pure CSS (tables were not specifically created for such layouts though, we just started using them because there was nothing better available). But other than that, there's really no reason not to use semantic elements and style your stuff with CSS. It's not web 2.0 wankery, it makes your code more readable, accessible and easily modifiable, and reduces bandwidth usage as well.

As for reference books, why waste your money? The web is full of tutorials, references and whatnot. Yes, many of them are bad and written by people who don't really understand what they're doing, but avoiding those shouldn't be a problem.

HTML and CSS are easy. It really doesn't take any more than a trip to Google to get started.

I likes this web-sights:

Simple but complete HTML 4 reference:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/alist.html

CSS2 reference with nice navigation:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/references/css2ref.html

you probably would be best looking into some BBCode tutorials to do somthing like that,
basically BBcode would be a good way to just get it done fast and securely without having to worry a lot about security issues or optimisation because BBcode has them inlined.
just google for some BBcode tutorials and you should be up and running in no time.

>>14
tl;dr

Tables are for tabular data. What's fucking hard to grasp about that?

More web designers need to understand this: http://www.csszengarden.com/

position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;

I'll propose position: random for CSS3
It's good for advertisement

There's no need for that. With current browser support, it'll be random by default anyway.

>>19
i'd propose allowing random(min,max) to be used in place of any number instead.

1ipython^H
:set ai
:wq!

why would you :wq! instead of :wq?

>>10
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

why would you :wq? instead of :wq!

why would you :wq? or :wq! instead of ZZ

why would you :wq? or :wq! or ZZ instead of :x

just get xhtml the definitive guide and be done with it. or just find a reference online and go through all the tags.

>> rofl n1

Learn HTML 5

If any of you here tonight are working in HTML or CSS, kill yourself.

Good book over doing.

36 Name: Anonymous 2010-12-06 9:40

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