where did you learn html from?

Ah well, Dreamweaver is damn expensive, but can be worth it, but only if you're buying it for a company. Otherwise, a big ripoff D:

Anyway, I learned HTML during primary school, in grade 6, when I was offered to be taught HTML along with other selected students. Fairly easy after that, and I found HTML to be an easy and interesting language.

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Well the first time I got into HTML was 3-4 years ago in middle school. The computer science class was trying to learn us the basics of HTML. Than I didn't cared about that but as soon as I grew up the web fascinated me. I wanted to create "web" too. I desperately searched for sources and got linked to W3 Schools which I think almost everyone stated in this thread. It was quite complex for me. I tried and tried. Mainly I learned the basics and more of from experiencing. But I can tell you is pretty bad to do it so. If you really want to learn HTML, better, XHTML and CSS you need to do it seriously and you can do that from one of the many ebooks around on the internet. I personally chose Learning HTML and CSS a book form O'Reily. It was the greatest book. I tell you I read all of it in a few days and tried some of the practises. It's important to learn the correct way of HTML to create accesible websites for people.

About the text editing software I can link you some.


Notepad++

This is probably the best free text editor for Windows out there; with support for simple things—like syntax highlighting and folding—all the way up to FTP, Notepad++ should tick most of the boxes. I've used the editor as my main editor quite a bit, and one of my favourite features is File Status Auto-detection: when NP++ is made the active program, it will check all currently open files for changes and let you know if any file has been updated / deleted. Notepad++ is based on the Scintilla editing component.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net Free


JEdit

Jedit is rather ugly in my opinion, but it has a decent feature set; as a Java program, it's actually multi-platform. It offers syntax highlighting for over 130 languages. The website says it supports folding, but I couldn't get that to work (although it does highlight the opposite bracket). Jedit has a plugin repository, which may give the editor a bit more functionality.

http://jedit.org Free


Notepad2

Notepad2 is also based on the Scintilla editing engine, but it's much simpler than Notepad++. It bills itself as being fast, light-weight, and Notepad-like, and offers syntax highlighting for a variety of languages. There's no installation for this editor: just unzip and run. There are a few modified versions (with more features / languages) available.

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html Free


Programmer's Notepad

Programmer's Notepad has a similar interface to that of Notepad2, although it does support having multiple files open at once. It supports bookmarking, folding, and highlighting, but other than that, there isn't too much to mention.

http://pnotepad.org Free


Crimson Editor

Crimson Editor offers macro support and the ability to execute external programs. It has the ability to edit remote files, using a built-in FTP client; there's also a spell checker and a neat 'column select' mode.

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Free


ConTEXT

ConTEXT supports many languages, both programming and human; it also gives you the ability to define your own custom languages. It does file comparing and exporting to HTML, and includes some interesting behaviour for projects. Another neat thing: ConTEXT remembers where your cursor is when you close a file, and puts it back there when you re-open the file.

http://www.contexteditor.org/ Free


Bespin

I know Bespin isn't really a Windows text editor, and it hardly has the feature set that other editors do, but I thought I'd throw it into the mix just because I really like the concept of an online text editor and because it has one big (obvious) feature that the rest don't: cloud access to your code. It also offers syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

http://bespin.mozilla.com Free


Textpad

TextPad is a rather simplistic editor: it boasts column select, drag-and-drop text between files, and hyperlink support. It also supports large files (based on the size of your virtual memory). That's it? Well, the feature list also mentions a right-click menu.

http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad/index.html $24.70


E-Text Editor (My favourite besides Dreamweaver)

Resembles a lot with TextMate

http://www.e-texteditor.com/ $34.96


EditPlus

EditPlus doesn't have anything unique, but there are some niceties: it highlights URLs and email addresses, activating them when you 'crtl + double-click'. It also has a built in browser for previewing HTML, and FTP and SFTP support. Macros and RegEx find and replace are good to have as well.

http://www.editplus.com/ $35.00


Sublime Text

Sublime Text is probably one of the most fun editors that I looked at, mainly because of its super-cool 'zoomed out' view of the file that you can pan around on. One drawback is that the preferences dialog is really just a bunch of text files; this can make it a bit difficult to tweak settings if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. I like the option to open a local file when you right-click on its link, and there are a few automation features, so this would make a solid choice of a text editor.

http://www.sublimetext.com $59.00


And my favorite thus far :

Adobe Dreamweaver (Current version CS4)



http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver $399

I know the price is high. Forget "high", insane would be a more appropriate word for that. I assure you that it fully deserves it price. It's the best hypertext editing software there. Basically it does more than half of you job done.

Well that would be all my friend. Good luck and also if you have more questions don't hesitate to ask me here or use private messaging .

Cheers!

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I start learning html back in 2006, was on a website that had a future called "neohome" where you could add almost every html tag/code, after a few months of playing in that i start looking for more advanced tutorials and after i got sick of html i start moving to another coding language, another and another...you got the point didn't you? xD

To bad i know many but master non

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I've bought a HTML basics book, in my personal language, and it's really easy to understand. When you read some books, tutorials...etc, or if you know the basics of HTML programming, you can easily make your own and simple website.

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I learned from note pad and looking up and taking a part other people code to see what happens to it and how to re fix it.
That was a long time ago before they cam out with the WYSIWYG editors.

been doing web stuff for 15 or more years now and when i started it not many knew what the internet was even, lol.

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