Web Design Resource

The first website that I created for a high school project, back in 1996, was written in HTML. It was just an advertisement page to sell raffle tickets for the 1975 Corvette Stingray that we restored and then raffled away for a fundraiser. It was part of my junior year Industrial Technology class with Mr. Ross Faldet (his most recent project), who is my brother-in-law. Below is a picture of Mr. Faldet and myself in Brickyard Days Parade just hours before the Corvette was given away.

Back to my first website. I started out knowing absolutely nothing about HTML and learned a ton while doing it. I had spent my junior high years learning BASIC on my Commodore PET with a book I purchased at a rummage sale, so I was familiar with the idea of writing code. This background helped, but learning HTML was very confusing and frustrating do to the lack of resources at that time. What I ended up doing is copying bits and pieces from other website's code and customizing it for our page.

During my Masters program at Boise State, I had to do a lot of HTML, XHTML, and CSS coding as part of the courses. I did purchase several books that helped, but I wanted to share a web resource that saved me several times. W3Schools is a self guided tutorial site that will help you learn just about every web code out there right now. If you would like to learn an entire coding language, it will guide you through step by step. If you are creating something and just need help with a certain part, W3Schools does that as well.

My favorite part of W3Schools is that it allows you to practice on their page and see the results to check if you have done it correctly. This feature allows me to tweak my code quickly and see the results before adding it to my projects. If you need help with web design code, W3Schools should be bookmarked on your computer.