HTML help? [Archive]

Dr Mindbender

1st July 2008, 17:50

Anyone got any links or info on free html courses?

Thanks in advance.

F9

1st July 2008, 17:57

i had find one last summer and i learn a lot of it,not very deep but i managed it with all the basics and important on html,i will try to find it and give you the link!Anw you could search and in google for learning html and you could find there something good!;)

Fuserg9:star:

F9

1st July 2008, 18:04

ha find it here is the link (http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap01.shtml).Hope it helps!:thumbup1:

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Dr Mindbender

1st July 2008, 18:31

ha find it here is the link (http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap01.shtml).Hope it helps!:thumbup1:

Fuserg9:star:

good start, thanks for that.

I'll really push my luck and ask if you know any good tutorials regarding uploading of videos and stuff. cheers.

F9

1st July 2008, 19:02

i dont know about this i just found it with google maybe it helps you: LINK (http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/video.html)
i can surely tell you though that through html code you can add a video from youtube by just taking the embed code that it has and put it as a html code and there you have a video in your site!;)

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apathy maybe

3rd July 2008, 07:34

http://validator.w3.org/ check your code to make sure it validates. One of the best ways to learn.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ styling? CSS is the way to go. Everything you need.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ guide to HTML, a good place to start.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html advanced HTML, for when you want to do more.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ HTML 4.01 specification, the definitive guide. (Not for the faint of heart.)

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html to be valid, you need a doctype. You probably want:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Want to be a geek? Learn XHTML, or use the strict doctype. Warning though, MSIE doens't understand XHTML, so don't use it unless you don't care about MSIE, or unless you know how to work around that issue (by handing MSIE text/html, and everything else, application/xml+xhtml). If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't use XHTML.

Enjoy!

Dr Mindbender

4th July 2008, 13:57

i decided to fork out for a textbook this week but its the size of a phonebook and im impatient so it'll probably take a while to get through.

I'll be honest and say i'm trying to build a youtube clone. Anyone got any ideas where i should start with such a gargantuan task?

I tried downloading this supposed specialised programme called 'vidiscript ' (http://www.vidiscript.com/)
but so far i've not found it too helpful.

Pirate turtle the 11th

13th July 2008, 10:47

i decided to fork out for a textbook this week but its the size of a phonebook and im impatient so it'll probably take a while to get through.

I'll be honest and say i'm trying to build a youtube clone. Anyone got any ideas where i should start with such a gargantuan task?

I tried downloading this supposed specialised programme called 'vidiscript ' (http://www.vidiscript.com/)
but so far i've not found it too helpful.

Try signing up to a super geeky website and ask for help. Tis what i do when i need help with somthing like this. (welsh castles project shoot me is i see another)

ships-cat

13th July 2008, 10:49

As far as I know, you can't do thinks like video uploading/storing/replaying using plain HTML, as it has no memory.

You CAN embed a video into a standard HTML page... as a permanant fixture. But for each such item (or 'object', as they seem to call them), you would have to upload the image file (suitably scaled down and/or compressed) into a folder on your website, and then point to it in the embedding code in your web page.

To have a "youtube"-like 'upload and store' feature, I believe you need an active server platform; ASP or php or similar... AND an on-server database. (usually MySQL). At that point, there are ready-made "object" code blocks that you can nick off t'internet that allow you to embed an 'browse/upload' button into your website. This code manages the upload and storate, and also inserts a pointer to the resulting file in your database, at which point it becomes available to use elsewhere on your website.

It's not for the faint-hearted... HOWEVER.... some Hosting companies might include all of this - complete with 'ready-to-go' plug-in options... as part of their hosting package. That might be the easiest way to go ? (but you may have to pay a little more per month for the hosting...).

Why not email your hosting company and ask them ?

Meow Purr :)