I learned how to use html using a site I believe called davesite.com. It was very helpful, and although I'm still not very good at it, I'm glad I know how to make some basic web pages.

I have to admit thought that I use frontpage and dreamweaver to create webpages. If I'm stuck on a computer without either of those two programs installed, I use html coding in notepad.

But to answer your question, it took me about 5 days of playing around to become familiar with html.

Best,
Trinifawk

I used davesite.com also and a book about HTML. I believe I learned the basics in 1 day and Style (CSS) the next day. It is really very easy to learn and is just a little more advanced then BBCode that is found on forums. When I was learning (and still today) I use web hosts that automatically update the web (in other words I don't need to use notepad, save then upload). I do it this way because trial and error is always the best way to program (at least in my opinion). I guess that is just because I am not a very good programmer. In a few years I wouldn't be surprised if HTML became a basic skill like typing. That assumes that the Internet is still popular then.

Thanks,
Sparkx

Learning is basically how much you want to know about HTML. Learning and applying the knowledge is the key. If you know a lot about HTML like many years and you don't do anything with it, then it really wouldn't matter. Once you learn the basics, it is basically up to you what you want to do with it. It's like learning basic code and comparing it to how it fits in scripting. Once you learn how bold is used, you would be able to set to anything. Well, that was a really, shabby example, but still one no less.

Everything has img src. It is a basic HTML command, but what you plan to do with it will be how much you know. Making a page with a picture linked is a nice basic concept. Creating CSS styles and starting to add scripting is a bit more advanced... but it is all coding and SOMETIMES you can find a few pieces of info over the net to get ideas together.... but I also think that getting a book and familiarizing yourself with coding should help. The net is a nice useful tool, but that's about all it is... a huge vast reference.

Good luck and have fun learning it, so it will be that much enjoyable watching your creations come to life.

- skedad -

Im wanted to make a Text Based...so i tried making it and found out i needed to know PHP and some other stuff i still don't have any clue about.......so then my friend gave me MCcodes V2 there Text Based codes alll ready made just need to edit them...so i start looking around messing with the codes...and start figuring out wat to do..so far i know most of HTML theres alot to learn stilll thou...but im prettty close i got the basics down and some of the other stuff...along with editing HTML i started editing PHP...i messed up many times and couldnt figure out how to fix it so i had to start allll over agian...but now i know alot about the PHP codes in my game i under stand it....but theres alot more i have to learn... ppl say PHP is easy to learn trust me if u dont like reading alot lol might wannna get a teacher...or start some practice stufff..cause i found out by doing it tried but got alot of errors and PHP i tried learning i forogot it...so i just quit so im looking for PHP coders to help make my game .....and HTML coders....cause i know nothing compared to other ppl

The basics I learned many years ago from looking at an old book, called the Internet Bible. It covered your simple images, frames, and links, and a little of tables but nothing of css (it was a very old book). More recently, around early 2007 I started to get serious and run my own website and forum. Strangely enough, I learnt PHP far quicker than html, despite what people say that html must be known to do good PHP. I suppose that was because of my experiance in Visual basic 6. Anyways, with PHP I rapidly learnt HTML, mostly out of necessity. First thing I used for making, say, sidebars was an Iframe. After that I started using invisible tables. Only recently did I phase that out of my coding techniques and started using DIVs and CSS.

I didn't take me too long to understand the basics. I learned to understand the basics of it through posting on forums a lot when I was 14/15 years old. BBcode et al.
My first experiences with HMTL were with frontpage, so it's probably not the best way to start off, but regardless, I learned a lot from that. I can't sy I learned HTML and now consider myself certified or anything (for as much as anyone COULD, anyway), but I can HTML away in notepad. but like someone else mentioned earlier, when table/div tags kick in, I'd rather head over to dreamweaver and css.

HTML is just a mark-up language and isn't too hard to learn, but it can serve as a decent basis to start looking into low-level, decent programming languages.