Web Design and Web Development Help

This question comes up often when people are changing avenues in life and, it usually provokes the answer: “it depends”.

It depends on what kind of a student you are.

If you are the type that needs someone to guide you in person, and to help you understand the material, then you are probably better off taking a web design course.

If, however, you are the type of student who learns easily from a book, then just learn this stuff on your own.
I went to a Computer Programming course in college. It offered one lonely class in HTML. I got hooked. I wanted more but the college didn’t offer career choices; everything I know now, I basically learned on my own, reading through the endless blogs of well-known people in the web business like Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, and Roger Johanssen.

The bottom line is that some people just can’t learn from scratch by reading books or online tutorials. They need someone in front of them, interacting with them; and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Want an easy way to add a caption to an image like this?

HTML

<div class="imagecaption">
<img src="your-image-here.jpg">
<alt="Stacked" width="150" height"100" /><p>Orange Pyramid</p> </div>

CSS

.imagecaption {
      width: 200px;
      border: 1px solid #999999;
      padding: .5em;
      }
p {
      font: small Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      text-align: center;
      }

Having to change 50 different pages to fix a link in your menu or adding a menu item in your footer can be quite a daunting task and quite frankly, not something you will want to do often. Using includes is a simple method of removing common parts of your code into a separate file and including them where you need it. It’s very simple to implement and you’ll be left wondering why you didn’t think of this when you were coding that big site.

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