Hi,
My eleven year brother want to be webdesigner/webmaster and I wonder how to help him with this? What books you recommend ? What soft is good for start ?
Maybe incomedia and photoshop ?
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Head First HTML is a good introduction to good HTML and CSS. 11 though might be a touch young for it.
Oded
2010-05-08 18:11:45
Keeping in mind he is 11, I think that book is a little long but that's not to say he couldn't use it as a reference.
Joe Philllips
2010-05-08 18:15:35
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Just about anyone with any sort of technical skills can learn HTML. Just have him start working on a website and give him the basic template. He'll figure out the rest. I started when I was 11 and it wasn't that difficult.
He might not be doing everything correctly but that can be fixed with time and practice.
Joe Philllips
2010-05-08 18:14:56
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Whatever training methods you decide on, just make sure he is encouraged to follow web standards as much as possible... its a lot harder throwing away the bad habits later on...
As for books I would probably recomend anything from the SitePoint series, these are really easy to use books and very useful for complete starters, they won't be as concise as the other manuals from Wrox, Apress, O'Reily but he is after all only 11!
Author Page and Contents: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html2/
Dal
2010-05-08 18:33:03
Three cheers for standards and good habits. I learned to do everything wrong by reading shoddy code and mimicking Dreamweaver output. Then, I read Zeldman's book, and started again from scratch:http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Standards-Jeffrey-Zeldman/dp/0321616952/jeffreyzeldmanprA/
grossvogel
2010-05-08 19:35:22