Mmm... Is anyone here interested in web design? Anything from Java to CSS to plain ol' HTML.... I've been workin' on my second website and I'm lookin' for advice/suggestions! :yes: ... And I'm just curious to see who else likes designing web pages. It's complicated but cool!

Use valid HTML and CSS. It's just so much nicer. If you haven't seen it, check out http://www.w3schools.org - there are lots of references and tutorials; it's a great resource.

Augh, XHTML 1.1 is your friend. CSS2 doubly so. Use 'em both and I shall wub you ;)

I have four websites on my plate to get made right now, and about a dozen I've already done. More if you count redesigns :P

Hehe yeah I started teaching myself design a couple months ago so I haven't gotten very far yet! ;) All I need is a website for like my diary n' stuff. You know... just something personal :)

Hehe, yep. I have sethkinast.com for that very purpose ;)

I'm majoring in Internet Technology at the University of Evansville, and the 'introductory' IT course is simply inexcusable. I've been learning and using HTML myself for awhile, and I'm another fan of XHTML strict, so I wasn't going to be surprised if this class wasn't wholly up to speed, but it was worse than I imagined.

The whole course is based around FrontPage 2004. I made the mistake of using FrontPage for my website years ago, and no matter how many features they cram into it, it just gets worse and worse. Our 'final project' for the class MUST be made with FrontPage.

They decided they needed to throw some HTML in for the last week of the course just so they could say that they taught us something instead of torturing us with excruciating step-by-step handholding directions in FrontPage. The HTML portion of the textbook is worse. Dear God, it's pure unadulterated pain.

After completing all of the assignments from the book, I still don't understand what 'standard' of HTML they thought they were teaching us. And this is in a book published this year. FIVE YEARS after the HTML 4.01 spec has been finalized. Three years after XHTML 1.1, and this book only mentions the standards and the W3C in passing somewhere in the introduction. We don't touch style sheets, and we sure as hell don't talk about how the code renders in anything other than Internet Explorer.

If it wasn't for the solidarity that the other IT majors in the class have, and the fact that the instructor got me an opportunity to use real HTML for one of her colleague’s projects, I would have dropped that class when I had the chance.