User Control Panel
Search iVirtua
Advanced/Tag Search...
Search Users...
What is iVirtua Exclusive Community?
  • An exclusive gaming industry community targeted to, and designed for Professionals, Businesses and Students in the sectors and industries of Gaming, New Media and the Web, all closely related with it's Business and Industry.
  • A Rich content driven service including articles, contributed discussion, news, reviews, networking, downloads, and debate.
  • We strive to cater for cultural influencers, technology decision makers, early adopters and business leaders in the gaming industry.
  • A medium to share your or contribute your ideas, experiences, questions and point of view or network with other colleagues here at iVirtua Community.
Guest's Communication
Live Chat
Teamspeak (VOIP) Audio Conference
Private Messages
Check your Private Messages
Themes
Choose an iVirtua Community theme to reflect your interests...
Business Theme
India/Arabic Theme

Gaming Theme
iVirtua Recommends
Fly Emirates Advertising
Is HTML Hard?
Digg This Digg Topic Tag it on del.icio.us Tag topic on On del.icio.us Technorati Search Technorati Search Post to Slashdot Post to Slashdot
You are currently in Programming, Web and Software Design/Development
Post new topic Reply to topic
Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:39 am Reply and quote this post
I'm still in high school, but I'm thinking of trying to learn HTML, or at least be more familiar with it. If i were to do this, I'd just buy a book lol. So, how long would this take me? And of course, how hard is it? Thanks.

Last edited by Ramen Hood on Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:39 am; edited 1 time in total

Contributed by Ramen Hood, iVirtua Expressed Contributor
100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:34 am Reply and quote this post
HTML isn't hard.  

It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and it basically tells a web browser how to display a webpage.  I started learning basic HTML when the internet first started getting popular when I was a senior in high school (1995).  Since then, lots of features have come about.

Before buying a book, I'd resort to the internet first to see if its something you want to dump a little money into to learn.  There are many sites that will help you get started without the need to spend any money.  You can be proficient with basic HTML in a matter of days, and be proficient in more advanced HTML in weeks or months, depending on how much time you put into it.  Its important to understand how and why it works though, I firmly believe this will accelerate the learning process.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

Contributed by ChrisMG, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor
110 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:09 am Reply and quote this post
Ooh thanks. :D I took the HTML Quiz to see what I knew, and I made a 60% lol. It DOES seem like something interesting. I figure I'll need it for my job one day, whatever that may be. Either way, something nice to put on a job application. :P

Last edited by Ramen Hood on Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:17 am; edited 1 time in total

Contributed by Ramen Hood, iVirtua Expressed Contributor
100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:33 am Reply and quote this post
What kind of job are you looking for specifically?

The reason I ask is because later on you may want to look into going to some formalized training for HTML or a related field.

Contributed by ChrisMG, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor
110 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:49 pm Reply and quote this post
Um, I'm not really sure. >_< I like computers though. So my job would have to have me working on one. At least my career.
Contributed by Ramen Hood, iVirtua Expressed Contributor
100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:15 pm Reply and quote this post
Well, there are lots of fields involving computers :)
Contributed by ChrisMG, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor
110 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:29 pm Reply and quote this post
There are MANY sites on the internet for learning things such as HTML.

A favorite of mine, which is extremely qualified and liked by all, is W3Schools.

http://www.w3schools.com/

Here's the HTML section:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Contributed by Predator, Guest
510 iVirtua Loyalty Points • • • Back to Top

Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:07 pm Reply and quote this post
I would recommend learning HTML if you are planning on going into any computer related field, even if it has nothing to do with the internet or programming. HTML gives you a feel of how scripting works and how the computer translates codes and what it does with them. HTML also is not hard, and you can make a very nice web page in only a few lessons from tutorials. If you are serious about learning a lot of HTML, here is an awesome tutorial that shows you step by step how to create a webpage. In fact, the tutorial is showing you how to create a webpage called \"Volcano Web.\" It includes all the codes, images, and resources that you will need. In each lesson you do something to the volcano site, and then you use some of the information you learned to add things to your own website that you are building along with the tutorial pages. We use this tutorial at our school for our web design class, and I think it is one of the better ones out there.

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html

Contributed by Nitrous, iVirtua Ultimate Contributor
115 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:03 pm Reply and quote this post
i think html is quite easy, all it takes is a little bit of reading :P
Contributed by spenxa, iVirtua Members
100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:06 am Reply and quote this post
Quote:
I'm still in high school, but I'm thinking of trying to learn HTML, or at least be more familiar with it. If i were to do this, I'd just buy a book lol. So, how long would this take me? And of course, how hard is it? Thanks.

Yeah, I'm taking HTML this year, and it's easy once you get the hang of it. Not only that, but these message boards use similar code, so I was quite used to it when I began.

Contributed by Defenestrator2.0, iVirtua Recognised Member
100 iVirtua Loyalty Points • View ProfileSend Private MessageBack to Top

Related Articles
Post new topic   Reply to topic


Page 1 of 1

iVirtua Latest
Latest Discussion

Discuss...
Latest Articles and Reviews

Latest Downloads
Subscribe to the iVirtua Community RSS Feed
Use RSS and get automatically notified of new content and contributions on the iVirtua Community.


Tag Cloud
access amd announced applications author based beta building business card case company content cool core course cpu create data deal dec demo design desktop developers development digital download drive email feature features file files firefox flash free future gaming google graphics hardware help industry information intel internet iphone ipod jan launch linux lol love mac market media memory million mobile money movie music net nintendo nov nvidia oct office official online patch performance playing power price product program ps3 pst publish ram release released report rss sales screen search security sep server show size software sony source speed support technology thu tue update video vista war web website wii windows work working works xbox 360 2006 2007 2008

© 2006 - 2008 iVirtua Community (UK), Part of iVirtua Media Group, London (UK). Tel: 020 8144 7222

Terms of Service and Community RulesAdvertise or Affiliate with iVirtuaRSSPress Information and Media CoverageiVirtua Version 4PrivacyContact