About
Learn Web Code is written by me, Brad. I earn my living as a web developer, but wish to someday teach high school English (which is after all what I went to college for). I combined my two interests and this site is the result; my attempt at teaching web development.
This site is setup as a standard blog (newest posts on top) but since lessons should be read in the opposite order, I recommend you visit the lesson pages (if you wish to start from square one) which are in sequential order:
XHTML Lesson Index
CSS Lesson Index
That’s all for now. If you find this site useful please drop me a comment, or share this link with your friends (or post it on your blog).
Best wishes in your web-learning journeys,
Brad
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Brad,
I’m not a kid; I’ve been involved in advertising for over 45 years. My secure, 6-figure income came to an end in Mid-May 2008, just when the economy was beginning to exercise its worst downward spiral and it has remained bleak for me ever since. So I decided to turn my attentions to getting business over the internet and created websites using iWeb. I created CheapAdAgency.com as a way to get business in what I know best and monetized sites that include Skrumshis.com, Laptop-Locator.com, Wherz-it.com, and Siteenstein.com. I’ve always had help with pages that didn’t load correctly by teaming with coders at various times. This left me somewhat vulnerable to their whims and their time constraints, so I decided to learn Dreamweaver and thereby get a leg up on coding. “Daunting” is putting it mildly. “Nearly impossible to understand” is putting it mildly. Books by Garrick Chow, Dori Smith and Betsy Bruce were good, but I still didn’t have a learning breakthrough until I stumbled upon your site. It was quite an experience. Once I started to read that it was “like a sandwich”, you began teaching in the graphic way that I can understand. I have gone through all the basic lessons on your site and felt disappointed when they ended. I now know the structure, the selectors, and all the other stuff that forms the basic language for everything I read, all thanks to your style of teaching. I just thought that you deserved to know. P.S. I humbly submit that I think that there is an error in one of your lessons, called: CSS Lesson 3: Basic CSS Selectors. You wrote: “If you look at the code of our XHTML page, you’ll notice that two of our paragraph tags have a class of “important”.” I think you omitted the class on both sentences from the code you asked us to copy, but thanks to your other lessons and the confidence you inspired in me, I was able to figure it all out and make the lesson work. Again, thanks. Barry S. Lee
Brad can you add php lessons?
Hi Brad,
I’m making my first website and I watched your CSS Column Layout (Template) Tutorial on youtube. It was very helpful. I had just one question. I was wondering if you really need the container div, or if that is not just an extra div that is not totally necessary. Couldn’t you leave that container div out and set the width and the margin for the body element? If you could email me back about this (fine0023@tc.umn.edu) that would be great. Thanks!
Just had a question about one of your tutorials. What would be the best way to ask you?
Hi Brad
As Barry mentioned i too think you teach in a way which makes learning seem alot easier than other methods i have tried.
I dont have much experience in web design at all but i would love to learn from scratch as i now am out of work so have time to learn.
I would love to sit here and watch a tutorial where you build a full website as i want to add a simple wordpress theme and edit it to my liking and understand the way the style sheet links and works.
Php is another must for me as my friend wants me to help him develop his sites and i appreciate it will take me a while to understand it all.
Anyway enough of my typing lol but 10/10 for all you efforts sir.
Terry…..
Great Stuff, easy to understand.