i was on the Net for probably 6 months, not having any background in computers I assumed to make a webpage took a bunch of geek knowledge. Then for whatever reason I clicked on 'Source' in Netscape one day on a site and took a look - it was all English except for the HTML tags which looked very simple, it dawned on me that this wasn't very complicated stuff. So I found an online HTML tutorial site and within a couple of hours I had my first website up with pictures. Then i got Hotdog to add some bells and whistles like animated test and music. Typical 97 era gaudy website. I got rid of Hotdog fast and went to Notepad and have done everything since with Notepad, I tried Dreamweaver but too many buttons to push.

Got online in 98' and in 99 I made my first site.. a Star Wars fan site. Made it all in geocities and notepad by reading source codes and html help sites.

LoL who would've thought a few years later I'd make a living off HTML and PHP :thumbsup

I still pay webdesigners for my paysites cause I suck at web graphics but I do most of my other work in Namo Webeditor now.

I learned HTML in the crudest way possible.

I got a WebTV shortly after they came out. That was my internet access at home for a year+. After playing around with it's limitations and discovering online pagebuilders several of us in a user group started toying around with making WebTV friendly pages.

To look at the source HTML of a page I had to type it's address into an online HTML validator. This is how I learned the fundamentals of HTML, along with help from online tutorials and pooling knowlege with the others doing the same.

This is before they added copy/cut & paste ability to WebTV in 1997 so I had to had carefully print any coding / scripts I wanted to use in a notebook and type it in to the online editor from that. I quickly learned how important every little ' was.:1orglaugh That's right, to move text/coding around on a page, I had to delete it and type it all back in where I wanted it. I was so happy when they added cc&p to WebTV and even happier when I got a PC at home in 98:)

Many will tell you that WebTV is a piece of crap but I will tell you that if it weren't for it and I had put a PC in the house before it I would likely have used programs to create my earlier pages and I know I would not have gotten such a in-depth "hands on" foundation of HTML.

I've tried several HTML editors over the years but I always went back to Notepad and use only it now.

i taught myself back in 97 or 98. then my senior year of high school i took a webpage class but i knew more than the teacher (and it really wasnt much at the time) and i pretty much taught the other kids in my class when they fucked their shit up.

taught it myself, it's very simple

Tought myself, by viewing sources on pages. Back in the day. :)

I got started when I did some photos for an escort going indie.

The guy she was going to have do her web site started dicking her around.

I was wanting to learn, so I jumped in with Frontpage. A mistake, but I had friends who could help.

Now I handcode using jEdit, use CSS and I am learning to use PHP.

Steady learning, all life long.

I'm not an expert at html, but I tought myself everything I need to know when I entered the biz a while back

i started out with notepad 8 years :)

Taught myself.

fiddy

yes did it myself

I remember making my first hyperlink actually to work and I was so happy lol

Taught myself in 1998 and haven't looked back.

Taught myself back in 98 or so with a learn html in 30 days type book.

Wow web design in WebTV?? That would be hard! I had web tv for 6 mos in 98 but I spent many of afternoons at my mom's using her PC till I got all the parts I wanted for building my 1st PC

Self taught..trial and error

i taught myself pretty much everything, from unix administration, to network security. html, nothing schools can teach you. you have to learn stuff on your own to make it in this world.

Taught myself. :)

Taught myself at work when I had nothing to do. Then got hold of a copy of Dreamweaver, discovered people made money pushing porn online, started doing that, quit my job and now do it full time. :)

I taught myself as well!:winkwink:

I tought it to myself shorlty after I discovered the web

I have really never used the web outside of business I use it for everything now but back in 1995 when I found it all I did was work on it

Learned Perl first then just picked up html along the way

Trust me, at times it was a PITA. I could have used a friend's PC but I realized at the time it was a great way to learn and I was enjoying hanging out with a bunch of folks in a couple of WebTV internal newsgroups we had turned into "classrooms". One of the guys that started out with us eventually ended up doing a great online tutorial that is still up today http://www.draac.com/

People created a lot of online tools that let WebTVers do many of the things PC pagebuilders do that the WebTV unit couldn't do itself. The WebTV Plus added video capture which gave WebTVers a way to add pictures that didn't require someone with a PC to scan them in for them. Online "transloaders" added limited FTP operations. There have actually been some very nice sites created entirely with a WebTV, a fact I attribute to that it required people to get creative to get around it's limitations.

Self mostly. From viewing source and finding syntax online when needed.
Also basic, pascal, c, assembly, perl, php, javascript.. whatever will do the jobs required.
Bring it on, I'm game. :)

A friend taught me.

yeap:glugglug

teached myself long ago with a book i got at the american bookstore in the hague... still got it here.. i use FP now but still make changes by hand in scripts etc

taught myself when i was about 14 ... learning html is like learning to count to 1-9, very easy, basic and simple.. but used all the time.

i started with Notepad, Frontpage and then came Dreamweaver. Bought a simple
to understand HTML for beginners and that was it. I started out as a Web Designer before i made entry to the bizz.

I taught myself by making free site after free site back in 98. Ah those were the days....

Who's Html? Is she hot? :1orglaugh