best way to learn the tech. side of web design?

[believo]

What is a good way of learning the technical side of web design. Just viewing the html code from sites that I like? or using dreamweaver and tutorials? Any other suggestions?
thanks.

[bubbamac]

In my case, it was "read and do."

I bought a reasonably priced ($25) HTML book, and got PageSpinner, a $20 WYSISYG web page authoring software.

Read the book, apply the knowledge. Unfortunately, it takes time, and lots of it. What you are learning is a new language, and the only way you're going to learn it is to do it, over and over again. In time, you'll move up to better and better software/books...

Good luck - it's not hard, just takes time and practice!

[iostream.h]

Quite honestly I just started looking at different (simple) webpages, and tried to examine what the code did. One thing that's nice about HTML is that you can usually tell what some code means (compared to Obj-C or something). Then I'd suggest just learning CSS for all your formatting and work on having all your code validate. This will help you become a great coder.

[mnkeybsness]

Learning HTML by looking at sites is not always the best way to do it. Most websites are not standards compliant, written with outdated code, or just poorly written. The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org) sets the standards for HTML, CSS, and almost all other aspects of web design. Learning from them is definitely a good way, but there site is really confusing. A much easier to understand resource it W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/). I also recommend learning CSS along with HTML at the same time because it will make your HTML much more simple.